&gt;  If you were to tell me what life is, that&#x27;s life.<p>That boils down to &quot;life is stuff happening&quot;, which is true, useless, and does nothing to answer the question posed.  It is trivially obvious that it&#x27;s impossible to stop <i>all</i> death, or even all human death, so I think it&#x27;s also obvious that what&#x27;s being talked about is not the elimination of death, but the elimination of the current main cause of death, which is aging.