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We'd already know if more people cared instead of delegating the problem to deities or thinking it's Good to die because it's the Natural Order of Things. And
by meric 11y ago
We'd already know if more people cared instead of delegating the problem to deities or thinking it's Good to die because it's the Natural Order of Things.
And it's socially acceptable for people to choose that. People ought to be allowed to delegate the problem to deities, and they ought to be allowed believe in a myth for death, and allowed to believe it's part of the natural order of things.
We should never make it socially unacceptable.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoI'm not advocating banning religion here, I'm only expressing my wish more people cared about solving death - especially those who just give up and accept it as "natural order". But still, this is just a social attitude that people acquire as they grow up, and with contemporary science and technology we should revisit that attitude, since we're finally capable of making concrete progress towards life extension.
- saiya-jin 11y agoUntil we can easily send billions (at least) to other worlds, be it in Solar system or further away, death is +- necessary, like it or not. This planet can feed many more people than it does now, without famines. But there is a limit, and looking how most people just don't care about these things as long as they get their paycheck and can watch their favorite TV show, let's be realistic. Honestly, I don't see what's all the fuss with death - I am atheist/agnostic, so no hope for some eternal afterlife (but happy to be proven wrong :)). But in no way I find it disturbing or worrying, just human business as usual (there have been roughly 120 billions of human deaths already, and I am not special anyhow). It's actually quite nice to be perfectly OK with death internally, it brings peace with oneself and the world on more than one level.