No. I simply gave a counter-example to a claim--thus the claim is refuted.<p>His claim is: all beings that are alive also age. The counter-example makes so that his argument is false (hydras are alive, but do not age).<p>I didn&#x27;t claim that being alive means you outlive the universe. Because that would be false. Everything alive is subject to the laws of thermodynamics (need energy to keep up the entropy-fighting machinery)--no food, no hydra.