Living thing or non-living thing?

When I was a kid, our teacher taught us the difference between living and non-living things... do you remember too? 

Just for fun, write whether the following are living or non-living things...

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Answer key: orchid - living thing; lamp - non-living thing; bamboo shark egg -   living thing; shark - living thing; dinosaur skeleton - non-living thing;  candies - non-living thing; spider - living thing.

So how did you answer number 8? Is sperm alive or dead? Is an egg alive or dead? 

Can dead sperm fertilize a living egg? Or can living sperm fertilize a dead egg? 

If living sperm is needed to fertilize a living egg, would it be logical to say life begins at the moment of conception?

Think about it.  

See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, death and adversity. - Deut 30:15