> you do everything you can to avoid dying at any time there is a chance that you might. I'm (poorly) trying to point out this is a false premise. If I have t

> you do everything you can to avoid dying at any time there is a chance that you might. I'm (poorly) trying to point out this is a false premise. If I have the choice between 10 years of bliss, or 11 years of hell, I'd choose the former. While things are rarely quite this clear cut in real life, some risky-but-profitable behaviors work out this way - where, statistically speaking, the decrease is pretty much guaranteed. I don't have the best diet - because I want to enjoy my meals. I don't have the best exercise regimen - because I have other things I want to do with my time. I'm assuming these will shorten my lifespan, but choose to continue down this path anyways - as I very much feel I am profiting (in merely the enjoyment of my life!) by accelerating my future death. The cost is high enough that I do pay some attention to my diet, and try to make sure I'm at least walking to lunch regularly as a means of exercise, but nowhere near so high as to make it my singular focus in life. I'm not doing everything I can - not even close - as I would assume I'd do were the cost "infinite", even if we're not speaking literally. > If you want to be very precise about it, the cost of dying is not infinite, literally, but it's the highest cost you'll ever pay and you can never profit from your own death, so it might as well be infinite. There is no risk that surpasses it and there is no profit that justifies it. If this were true, even if only just in the moment before one's death, nobody would ever sacrifice themselves for a cause or a loved one. Depression would claim no lives. Religions would condemn their gods for giving us finite lifespans. Medical research would be a much higher priority. > That's how this "infinite cost" thing works. Which is exactly why I'm arguing that the cost is, in fact, not infinite. Perhaps you disagree with how other people choose to value their own lives, but I suspect even then you'd find yourself to have a breaking point - where the costs simply aren't worth extending your life. Assuming you're not a sociopath, you're probably not willing to, say, murder an entire room full of people just to extend your life another hour - even if you only have minutes left. And I suspect even sociopaths wouldn't be willing to, say, be the victim of significant torture for the entire duration of their extended lifespan, to achieve the same. Because the cost isn't infinite, and in such scenarios, is in fact outweighed by the cost it'd take to stay alive. I'll leave it to you to decide where the break even point is for yourself. But I suspect you'll agree with some advice: Enjoy life! Don't sacrifice all happiness just to extend things a little - the price isn't worth it.