It's not a death. From here, the only real distinction you'll be able to find is rooted in philosophical arguments. From the purely materialistic perspective, no death occurred. The dominant embryo suppressed the growth of the other embyro and grew around it.
If it's not a death, then you've left science and Christianity both, and there's not a future death. You have someone who was born, but never died.
Look, you are in a dilemma here. You can pick one of three: either the chimera part is alive until amputation, it died before at some point (maybe even a point I didn't list), or it was never a human. Inventing a new way for a human life to end that isn't death is neither a Christian nor scientific solution to your problem.
It's a commensal relationship, not parasitic.
See, I was thinking about changing that when I wrote that, but I think it's technically, barely, parasitic, in that the mole would need some nutrients like any other group of cells, and it provides none. It's not full on hermit crabs taking abandoned shells. Regardless, this point is minor and incidental to the point I made.
I'm not calling it a death, neither do biologists. The second embryo's development is arrested by the first. It does not follow you'd need philosophy to resolve the non-issue of whether it's one or two people, biology does that just fine.
I'm pretty sure, at some point, they do say the organism died, while keeping it as a separate organism. Really, that wouldn't be weird at all for a biologist, as every biologist knows the majority of cells in a human (by count, IDK about by weight) are not even human, but part of the internal ecosystem of the body, like gut bacteria. This would just be another organism living on the body.
In the the first and second case, they are both two people. In the first case, it's two people with two brains that don't touch. In the second case, I believe you're mistaken. There's still two brains, they're just joined at certain parts. They share and send signals back and forth but they're two separate personalities. In essence, 1 and 2 are the same situation you're breaking into two cases for the sake of your argument.
In some cases, there are two brains (the more famous examples). In others, there's actually only one head, usually in cases of parasitic or vestigial twins, where all that remains of the other twin are some excess limbs. There's not even no second brain, there's no second head, nor connection at the head.
They aren't equivalent with chimerism at all since one embryo didn't arrest the development of the other, they both continued developing and melded in a horrifying way. The "scale" of this false equivalency is nonsensical.
This is why I said 'Symptomatically' similar:
Because, looking symptomatically, chimerism is simply a very small siamese twin.
Obviously, the cause and how this happened are different, but the end result (i.e. the symptoms) is pretty similar: a naturally occurring state where a human body can have multiple different genotypes. Sorta like saying a cold and an allergy are symptomatically similar, in that I get a headache, runny nose, cough, etc, from both.
No it doesn't, and its pretty rude to make this post and only later add my comment in as a quote
Apologies to the second part. I posted intending to reply, but forgot the quote, then realized that, then added it.
No definition or worldview, but one you've invented in this thread for some reason, has this problem. You also continue to argue around the point, which is that human life begins at conception. Just concede that science and christians are in agreement here lol
Literally I pointed out that the definition that comes from "life begins at conception" has this problem, and explained how it has that problem. You are now just saying "No you didn't" and I'm not interested in continuing to reply "Yes I did" if you won't actually engage the points I've made. I've not 'argued around the point'. I've argued exactly that point, by pointing out two major flaws (chimerism and identical twins) with the point. It's absolutely not scientific
