if you take a man and a woman and cut a two very small parts, combine
them in the correct manner and reimplant them to maybe another woman
than a part of the original matter lives further.. too.

the newborn life don't share the same mind, the collected experience;
but the cactus don't do either. it just stupidly grows, only slightly
more controlled then cancer in the human body would do.

so in my feeling there is nothing special about this infinite life.

greets
Paul