Conatus (Latin: to endeavor”) represents an innate ‘will to live’ of a thing, a striving to continue to exist and enhance itself. In modern-day biology, conatus describes autopoiesis – an inherent ability to self-regenerate. conatus by using advanced scientific technologies to study human cells while integrating philosophical discussions into our queries:

• What is organic unity and is there a form of life after organic death? 
• Can genetic changes at the cellular level respond to the type of death experienced? 
• How does this affect current procedures such as organ transplants received post-mortem?

Definitions
Human death is categorized by a 4-point Hardy scale as follows:

Ventilator Case – All cases on a ventilator immediately before death.

1. Violent and fast death – terminal phase within 10 minutes (due to accident, blunt force trauma or suicide)
2. Fast death of natural causes – terminal phase at < 1h (sudden unexpected deaths of people who had been reasonably healthy (e.g., myocardial infarction)
3. Intermediate death– after a terminal phase of 1 to 24 hours (patients who were ill, but death was unexpected)
4. Slow death– after a long illness, with a terminal phase longer than 1 day (e.g., cancer or chronic pulmonary disease; deaths that are not unexpected)