Originally Posted by Surfings

life
noun

1.
the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.

2.
the existence of an individual human being or animal.

Originally Posted by Qukslice

1 word:
Reproduce.

If you think about it, all we were born to do was to find a mate and make babies. That's what all species do. It's what we're all supposed to be on the planet for.

Originally Posted by 1002003

one word: Reproduce. It's every species' meaning of life. We are born, we mature, we reproduce, we die, our children mature, our children reproduce, our children die, their children mature, their children reproduce, their children die, etc...

Sad but true.

But the quality of life is a different story. Make your life better by thinking happier thoughts, learn that one hobby you REALLY wanted to learn, and just make yourself happy!

Originally Posted by Zelda

A fight against entropy is maybe a necessary but an insufficient condition to define it as far as I'm aware, but I make a lot of stuff up so w/e. Eventually after the long decay process and the redistribution and breakdown of all your thermodynamically unlikely thingumabobs then it's probably safe to say that it's properly over.