For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself
destroyed or lost?
Bible (Luke 9, 25)
Do not kill not only people, but also any living life on Earth.
Buddha
Respect for the life of others, as well as for one's own, is a prerequisite for
human health. E. Fromm
Life and its preservation have always attracted the attention of thinking people. Philosophers and scientists strive to understand various spheres of life, especially for humans: its physical, spiritual, socio-cultural, and many other components. This has given rise to a number of scientific disciplines that study life in general: philosophy, biology, psychology, sociology, political science, cultural studies, and, certainly, ethics. In recent years, the philosophy of life and its preservation has been tasked with rethinking the moral and legal foundations of science, technics, technology, and especially biomedicine. This is necessary because science provides new data on the relationship between living and inanimate processes occurring in the world and society. So, a real sensation in the world of science was caused by the success of researchers from the University of Manchester. For the first time, under normal terrestrial conditions, they managed to synthesize an RNA molecule from the protozoa and chemical elements. They obtained living matter from elements of inanimate nature in the laboratory, thus, repeating the process of its natural appearance on Earth about 2.5 billion years ago. After all, back in 1871, Ch. Darwin suggested that biological life on the planet arose from the so-called "broth", when life arose as a result of the most powerful and instantaneous release of energy (lightning discharge) in shallow waters and filled with various chemical elements. For the philosophical understanding of life and the ways of its preservation, as well as the preservation of human health, new moral and legal principles of ethics have been developed - the ethics of "reverence for life" (A. Schweitzer). Its task is to spread the moral