In my opinion, there is no clear definition of life that is completely self-aware. We never know when we are going to die, where we are going to die, or what is going to happen to us after we die. The only thing we can do is to try to make the best decisions for ourselves, so that we can be in the best possible state to make it to the afterlife.
People who live in the United States tend to be more aware of their surroundings than those living in Canada. This is most obvious in the country where there are a lot of immigrants. It’s easy to be like these people in a country where they are mostly just going to be sitting around on a couch in a couch, and then they come back and sit back and do this same thing.