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does accepting it count as beating it

• MereInterest 7y ago
  I think that you have an internal voice in your head, some way of interpreting the world. I think there are thoughts that you have had that have never occurred to anyone else. I think that your thoughts enrich those around you. Accepting death is accepting that those unique thoughts will disappear, and that the universe will be lesser for it. Accepting death means looking at each person, intellect blazing like stars, all the clusters and constellations and galaxies of humanity, and accepting that each point of light will sputter, shrivel, and extinguish. Beating death means that these unique views will not be lost, will not be extinguished. Beating death means that there will be the time to talk to each other, to get to know every person one at a time, and to become the greater for it. It may be tomorrow, it may be in ten thousand years, but I'd like to get to know you, too.
  • smabie 7y ago
    But we can’t live past the heat death of the universe, so does it really mattter? Nothing lasts forever and just increasing the time doesn’t change anything. Moreover, if people never died of old age, they would die of something else. The last study I read about this put the average lifespan of humans without death from natural causes to about 4000 years.
  • banads 7y ago
    >I think there are thoughts that you have had that have never occurred to anyone else. Unless you created your own language that you think in this is most certainly not the case