When I was 5 I knew that I was going to die - maybe I had 80 more years. The difference between a cancer patient who knows they have 1 year to live and a 5 yea

When I was 5 I knew that I was going to die - maybe I had 80 more years. The difference between a cancer patient who knows they have 1 year to live and a 5 year-old who knows they have 80 years to live is really only a matter of perspective. Time is a funny thing. I've spent my entire life trying to figure out how to make the most of life with the inevitability of death on my mind. It is still hard for me to imagine that most others really only consider their life within the context of death when death is 1, 5, maybe 10 years away. I am moved by this video poem. I am in awe of the the beauty of Borges's words - it stopped my day in its tracks. However, on a discussion board amongst doers, builders and rationalist, I feel motivated to encourage more. We live in a unique time in humanity - a time where our rationalization about death can extend beyond feel-good sentiments like 'make the most of your life'. We live in a time where we can extend our lives; we can use motivations like this to encourage our culture and society to put a greater emphasis on technologies that enable drastic life extension. Make the most of your life and others by working or influencing to extend our lifespans. Use this motivation to adopt the mindset that you can preserve all that is wonderful about life for hundreds, possibly thousands of years - influence your peers and hack longevity.