CYCLES OF THE NATURAL WORLD

The Natural World History Museum is proud

to present you its newest exhibition:
CYCLES OF THE NATURAL WORLD

LIFE

What is life? If this strikes you as an odd question, consider it for a moment. It's almost as hard as describing the origin of life! One thing is certainly sure - we all have an intuitive sense of what life is, but how would you actually define it? Given the incredible diversity of living creatures, from tiny microbes to monkeys running wildly in tropical rain forests, how could one word encompass all that LIFE represents?

There is no universal definition of life. Defining life in conclusive terms is still a challenge for the brightest minds of humanity. Although scientists and biologists have a difficult time classifying the concept they are currently studying, it is recognized that all living creatures share a set of characteristics in common. All living things take in and use energy, eliminate waste products, grow and develop, respond to their environment, reproduce, but perhaps the most fascinating quality of the natural world is that living creatures show variation based on heredity. For something to be considered "alive", it must possess these characteristics.

Come and explore the mysterious term of life, a term which mankind hasn't defined completely yet. Maybe you are the ultimate scientist that will answer the question many of us ask but don't receive unequivocal answer: WHAT IS LIFE?

DEATH

What is death? For the Roman Catholic Church, death is the "complete and final separation of the soul from the body". The Vatican had protested the Catholic definition of death, saying that diagnosing death is a subject for medicine, not the Church. Let us put the religious confrontation upon death aside and focus on the following question: WHAT DEATH MEANS TO YOU?

Death is generally defined as an irreversible cessation of blood circulation or all function of person's brain. Death is a process rather than an event. Specifying the moment of death usually involves deciding on a point from which there can be no return.

Death can be caused by disease, suffocation, prolonged lack of oxygen to the brain, physical trauma as a result of an accident, homicide or suicide. The major cause of death in the Third World countries is infectious disease, though the major causes in developed countries are cancer and other diseases related to obesity and aging. Once used to be a normal situation, home deaths are now rare in our developed world. With improved medical capability, death has become a condition to be managed.

The Natural World History Museum is delighted to open its doors for visitors to come and explore the most spectacular secrets of death. The museum is ready to take you into an amazing journey where you would be able to discover where the soul, spirit and the mind travel when the body dies. Despite the fact that the thought about death frightens us, the exhibition you're welcomed to see will bare you a different aspect of death.

Bibliography:
Life
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life
Death
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death
http://www.deathonline.net/what_is/index.cfm

Great idea for your exhibition. I loved it!

Daphna.