Delong

I think it's immoral to kill bugs if they're not egregiously bothering you. Even though they are less sentient than us perhaps they still have some basic will to live and avoidance to dying. It doesn't seem right to just step on some ants or flies or something. I walk around them or if they're in my house I leave them alone or shove them outside. If you we're talking about bacteria I wouldn't mind. Their life is so lowly it can hardly be considered immoral to kill them capriciously. I like to kill a lot whenever I sterilize something.

Metabolism of all the cells in the organism. I don't think a strawberry is really alive to begin with. It's just the gynoecia of the plant that engorge with sugar and anthocyanins after fertilization. I guess it has cells that grow and metabolize but it is definitely not an organism. I actually wonder if the cells die at a certain time in fruit development. Probably not but I wonder how fruit develop anyway.

I think life stops when metabolism stops.