Complete and utter bollocks on stilts
This is total crap. There's no such thing as 'living, "organic elements"'. The word "organic" has been hi-jacked by the organic food movement in such a way as to become largely meaningless, but scientifically it refers to COMPOUNDS based on a backbone of carbon and hydrogen and often (though not necessarily) including oxygen, nitrogen and/or other elements. Early chemists believed that such compounds could not be synthesised from non-organic starting materials in the lab, but could only be made by living organisms. We've known for yonks that this is baloney.
So to say something is or is not alive has no meaning at the molecular level, and certainly none where elements are concerned.
The definition of "life" can be tricky but is only meaningful when complex structures are viewed as a whole. For example, viruses (not the ITsort) don't have the capacity to reproduce other than via host-cell mechanisms, so it is meaningful to debate whether they're living organisms or merely micro-chemical factories. Human beings are complex organisms and the body of a living human is alive in its entirety. It includes sub-units (cells) which are also independently alive in that in the right conditions they can grow and reproduce when detached from rest of the body. It also includes sub-units (eg dead skin cells) which were once alive but aren't any longer. But it's a category error to describe molecular compounds or elements making up the human body as being either alive or not alive. They are neither.
Hilary Curtis, MA PhD (Cantab, chemistry)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
