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Life - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Life is a multi-faceted concept that may refer to the ongoing process of which living things are a part or the period between fertilisation or mitosis and death. ..."
Right to life - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Right to life or Pro-life, in its broadest sense, refers to holding human life as a paramount value. The right to life is central to debates on the issues of abortion, capital punishment, euthanasia, and, to a somewhat lesser extent, war. The United States Declaration of Independence calls life one of the "unalienable rights," meaning that our sense of self-preservation cannot be separated from the human psyche. ..."

Articles

A Passion for Life, by Butler Shaffer, 1 Nov 2003
"If life is to be experienced as our nature has prepared us, we must learn to live with passion; with a sense of focused, self-directed energy. The study of economics reminds us that life is a subjective process of learning, making choices, taking actions. ... To live with passion is to live an internally directed life that exhibits a fiery, creative, exploring spirit."
Rationality and Irrationality; Subjectivism and Objectivity of Praxeological Research, by Ludwig von Mises, Human Action
Chapter 1, section 4
"The impulse to live, to preserve one's own life ... is a primal feature of life, present in every living being. However ... man ... can control both his sexual desires and his will to live. He can give up his life when the conditions under which alone he could preserve it seem intolerable. ... To live is for man the outcome of a choice, of a judgment of value."
The Economics of Self-Ownership, by Michael Rozeff, Mises.org Daily Article, 6 Sep 2005
Related Topic: Self-ownership
"Making one's own choices is an essential procedure in learning how to create one's life. Human life is not simply a series of disconnected acts because we possess memory, foresight, reason, and many other qualities. One may engage in several series of decisions that build up skills, training, knowledge, wealth, personal relationships, health, family, character, reputation, spirituality, etc. ..."
Alternative Medicine Is Libertarian Medicine, by Butler Shaffer, 2 Dec 2006
Related Topics: Health Care, The State
"What is 'life,' and what is it not? Those who prattle about the 'sanctity of life' often overlook the fact that 'life' is self-directed activity; that all of politics is premised upon forcing life to go in directions it does not choose to go; and, therefore, that all of politics is anti-life."

Books

Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned About Life in School--But Didn't, by Peter McWilliams, Apr 1990
Related Topic: Learning
Electronic text available at author's site
The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations
    by Robert Nozick, 1989