User:Anmolprajapati20/sandbox

2021-22                                                                                         Mr. Anmol Ramnivas Prajapati                                                                    Human Life Protection Act'                                                                                                             ♥ Introduction To Human Life The Human Life Cycle ULTRASOUND OF A FOETUS

o	All people start off life as a foetus in their mother’s belly. A foetus grows in the womb surrounded by liquid and gets its nutrition through a tube called the umbilical cord. When a woman has a foetus growing inside her, we say that she is pregnant. Doctors can take a photo of a foetus using an ultrasound scanner.

BABY After around nine months (sometimes a bit longer; sometimes a bit less) the mother gives birth. From birth to around two years of age, we say a child is a baby (we count people’s ages from the day that they are born). Babies cannot do much for themselves and need to be fed (with milk at first, then later with food) and have their nappies changed. From three years old to ten years old, you are a ‘child’. Children are more independent than babies, and they continue to become more independent as they get older; for example, they can eat food that is given to them and dress themselves. Between three and five years old, children start to go to nursery and to school. ADOLESCENT The World Health Organisation defines an adolescent as being a young person aged between 10 and 19. Puberty results in changes in the body during this stage of the life cycle. There is even more brain development during this time. Adolescents are more independent than children; for instance, they can get jobs to earn money for themselves and Baby Adolescents Boy Girl can learn to drive at seventeen. However, adolescents still live with their parents and rely on them to pay the bills! Adulthood Although eighteen and nineteen end in ‘teen’, people of this age are actually now adults. The human body is at its peak of fitness and strength between 18/19 and 39. There is still some growth but not of height. Adults usually live independently in their own houses. Most adults get full-time jobs to pay for their own food, bills and other things that they buy. Adults can also have babies of their own! BY THE AGE OF AROUND 67, MOST PEOPLE HAVE WORKED HARD THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES AND SAVED UP ENOUGH MONEY SO THAT THEY CAN RETIRE (STOP WORKING). ELDERLY PEOPLE ARE NOT AS STRONG AS WHEN THEY WERE YOUNGER AND GET TIRED MORE EASILY. HOWEVER, THEY CAN STILL HAVE FUN AND STAY ACTIVE, LIKE THE COUPLE IN THE PHOTO. IF THEIR CHILDREN HAVE HAD CHILDREN, THEY WILL BE GRANDPARENTS. .          IN SUMMARY, THE HUMAN LIFE CYCLE HAS SIX MAIN STAGES: FOETUS, BABY, CHILD, ADOLESCENT, ADULT AND ELDERLY. ALTHOUGH WE DESCRIBE THE HUMAN LIFE CYCLE IN STAGES, PEOPLE CONTINUALLY AND GRADUALLY CHANGE FROM DAY TO DAY THROUGHOUT ALL OF THESE STAGES. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ meaning of human life The inadequacy of the view that knowledge is the ultimate purpose and meaning of human life does not mean, however, that knowledge has nothing to say on the subject. Indeed, an important part of our knowledge, the theory of evolution, has something to say about it. One of the most basic questions humans ask is: Why human life? The answer of the theory of evolution is: Human life exists in virtue of the fact that it is the result of an adaptation. But, it will be objected, this answer depends on a misunderstanding. What one means by that question is not: In virtue of what human life exists? It is rather: What is the ultimate purpose and meaning of human life? Actually, the theory of evolution also gives an answer to this question: Human life has no ultimate purpose and meaning. It is, of course, a negative answer, but a clear and neat one. Thus the theory of evolution gives an answer to both senses of the question: Why human life? Human life exists in virtue of the fact that it is the result of an adaptation, and has no ultimate purpose and meaning. In particular, from the viewpoint of the theory of evolution, the ultimate purpose and meaning of human life cannot consist in progress. Evolution favors those characteristics which promote the propagation of the genes which originate them, but this is not a progress by any of the moral, aesthetic and emotional standards by which we consider something as a progress. Even if one is willing to consider the propagation of genes as progress in itself, natural selection cannot be considered as productive of progress, for an adaptation can be judged good or bad only relative to the environment in which it takes place. Thus it cannot be considered a progress in an absolute sense. Nor, from the viewpoint of the theory of evolution, can the ultimate purpose and meaning of human life consist in an increase in complexity. Although evolution favors the most complex organisms when they produce greater genetic adequacy, the same holds of the least complex ones. Of course, in a relatively stable environment a species can progressively become better adapted, but this is simply local progress, not global that would allow one to 5 speak of progress in an absolute sense. In any case, it is not progress in the sense of working toward an ultimate purpose. THE NATURE OF HAPPINESS IT TURNS OUT THAT THE QUESTION ‘WHAT IS HAPPINESS?’ DOES NOT ADMIT A UNIQUE ANSWER. WHAT MAKES ONE HAPPY DIFFERS FROM PERSON TO PERSON FOR IT DEPENDS ON WHAT ONE WANTS, WHICH IN TURN DEPENDS ON WHAT ONE IS. MOREOVER, IT CHANGES ACCORDING TO THE DIFFERENT AGES AND CONDITIONS OF LIFE. FOR CHILDREN, WHAT MAKES THEM HAPPY DEPENDS ON THEIR PARENTS. FOR LOVERS, THE OBJECT OF THEIR LOVE IS EVERYTHING. THEREFORE CHILDREN AND LOVERS HAVE A FEELING THAT EVERYTHING IS WITHIN EASY REACH, THAT FOR THEM IT IS ENOUGH TO STRETCH OUT THEIR HAND AND SEIZE IT, FOR PARENTS OR THE BELOVED ONE ARE THE MAIN THING THAT MATTERS TO THEM.

Smile, for the young, what makes them happy is to expand in the world. This seems to them within easy reach because they have a still very limited experience of the human condition. As Russell points out, it is for that reason that, “for the young, there is nothing unattainable; a good thing desired with the whole force of a passioned will, and yet impossible, is to them not credible.”49 Nevertheless “to every man comes, sooner or later, the great renunciation.”50 By “death, by illness, by poverty, or by the voice of duty, we must learn, each one of us, that the world was not made for us, and that, however beautiful may be the things we crave, Fate may nevertheless forbid them.”51 That the question ‘What is happiness?’ does not admit a unique answer, does not mean, however, that one cannot state some minimal conditions for happiness. First of all, happiness requires the will to live. An essential condition for a happy life is to have a life and to desire to continue to have it. Therefore happiness is first of all that strong attachment to life, that flame that catches again and again and takes deeper roots after each sorrow. Of course, this is minimal happiness, but it is the mother of all happiness. In the second place, happiness is to have something: to have some interests, affections, something to do and someone to love. Having them, we expand in the world and multiply ourselves in it. It is true that, for some people, the supreme form of happiness consists in stripping themselves of everything. But they do so only to possess what they care for above everything else: to be fully themselves without ties. An extreme form of happiness as renunciation is Paul of Tarsus’ ‘cupio dissolvi’52 shared by the great mystics, for whom selfdissolution is the means to get rid of the ties of the body and reach the supreme good of the union with God. However, without going to such extremes, happiness is also to give something to others, for this is a way of feeling that one’s existence is useful to someone else. In the third place, happiness is the hope that we will have tomorrow what is denied to us today. Happiness and hope are strictly connected. Kant says that “all hope concerns 18 happiness.”53 But one may claim also the converse: all happiness concerns hope. Even if the experience of life tells us that hope is often a fable, we go on telling ourselves that fable and believing it, like children. All children’s fables are similar, as all lovers’ discourses are similar, for they have the color of hope. Hope is what gives us the strength to face difficulties, and our human condition becomes unbearable when hope fails. Of course, the rival of hope is fear, and uncertainty between hope and fear is painful. But, as Russell says, uncertainty “must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.” We must learn “to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation.” Thank You