Nowadays, a paradoxical situation arises: scientific and technological progress is an undoubted good, but at the same time it creates a threat to the continued existence of wildlife and the human race. To overcome this contradiction, it is necessary to develop a fundamentally new and more concrete understanding of the phenomenon of life. All existing approaches to the study of life are one-sided, since they do not pay due attention to the phenomenon of death. Science connects death with an increase in entropy. Philosophy focuses on ascending evolution and puts the problem of death on the back burner. As a result, death is seen as something completely opposite to life. Such an approach naturally creates a passive attitude to death in all spheres of culture, including medicine. To overcome this situation, it is necessary to realize the fact that the existence of living organisms involves a combination of opposite processes. This is synthesis and decay, renewal and degradation, complication and simplification. Life and death form an indissoluble unity. This leads to a number of general conclusions. Death is a condition of life. The main property of living beings is the ability to die. A person is a unique being who is able to die in a special way, namely, for an extremely long time, in the process of aging. In modern medicine, this circumstance is not taken into account. Therefore, all technologies for extending a person's life are applied only to the late, final stages of the life process. A new medical doctrine is needed. Medicine should delay death at earlier stages of the life of a human individual. This means that modern diseases of civilization (cardiovascular diseases and oncology) should not be treated, but prevented by shifting them to a later date. Such an approach opens up the prospect of unlimited prolongation of the life of both an individual and the whole of humanity already beyond the limits of natural nature, that is, at the super-natural level of human culture.
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