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I was replying to MichaelGG's statement: Just because it seems inevitable, we should not make it socially acceptable to give up and view death as anything but

• kbenson 11y ago
  Yes, I was trying to address specifically that I think you are arguing a points with is somewhat orthogonal to the current discussion, because both are using similar terms to mean different things. Your terminology is more correct (you are addressing death as a specific concept, and it's inevitability), while they are addressing age extension, possibly to it's logical conclusion a the end of the universe, but using "death" to denote that, when it's obvious there are other causes of death that cannot be stopped. In other words, I think there is no real difference of opinion, just a difference in terms making it seem so. This appears to have been exacerbated slightly through your flowery description of your point, which I take to be: "Death of is impossible to stop in the end, and giving the false impression that it is may be harmful. That said, if we can retard it in humans to a large degree, that's useful. Additionally, death serves a useful purpose in many systems, so we shouldn't lose sight of this."