A character serving humanity on the world stage beyond just another reproduction ignoring why they exist one at time in a body never same details combined so far, each heartbeat brings a new total sum lived since conception.
Evolving doesn't end because specific cycles of life stop being alive. decomposing bodies are still evolving in reverse growth patterns added since arrived a fertilized cell.
A living body dies of thirst in 4 days, starves to death in 40 days, decomposes into molecular content in 400 days if not mummified after dead, naturally or socially.