Life Definition

These are only my own views but I think to be living something must be able to reproduce and evolve in a heritable way. I have also tried to include a stipulation that the evolution must be open ended but this starts to get hard to define. As I see it viruses are examples of life, which put me into disagreement with many biologists. There are many other attempts to define life which I will try to collect here as well. ...to be continued...