3 things cannot be defined satisfactorily. Life, death and marriage oops?+@*$ Health.
No biology textbook can define life to the satisfaction of all. You have a life and for that matter I too have a life. The mango tree by the side of my bedroom the boughs of which were trimmed today has a life. The cute lap-dog that my landowner calls Miki and my son has grown fond of, has a life. But are they all alike? Is not it different from consciousness? Self-awareness or a consciousness that is conscious?
When the doctor and lawyer argue on death, you can sense neither of them understands the true nature of it. Is it the stop of heart-beat? or cessation of brain-function?Does consciousness survive death?
These are some of the questions that we cannot get out of our mind.
Finally Health( I shall come to marriage later on).
What is health? Is it merely absence of illness?
An emphatic No!
Health is that quality of our being that enables us to live 'in harmony with environment'.
I may have a robust health ( in traditional sense) and may look like Amir Khan or John Abraham. But if I cannot behave well with you, with my family,my neighbors, if I am intolerant of others' opinions, if I am not amenable to the idea of re-writing the Encyclopedia Britannica every day and so on. Then I am not a healthy person. However least my medical expenses might be!
This follows that health is a holistic concept. And modern medicine with so much reductionist attitude is incompatible with this idea.
If interested I suggest you read Fritjof Capra's 'Uncommon Wisdom'.
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