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Life and death are still perhaps nature’s (and humanity’s) greatest mysteries, but science is continually revealing more about these phenomena, and changing our definitions of them. This course will examine some of what we are learning about how life begins, what it means to be living, and how life ends. We will look both at life and death among humans, and life and death among other living things, both individually and collectively. We will consider how our ideas, behavior and institutions are changing in response to our redefinitions of life and death.