>Or maybe this is a defense mechanism borne from denial and the urge to put off the inevitable. Sure, could be. > You’re talking about outliving the stars the

>Or maybe this is a defense mechanism borne from denial and the urge to put off the inevitable. Sure, could be. > You’re talking about outliving the stars themselves when we can barely get piles of rocks to survive a few millennia. Maybe so. I won't pretend to understand what would go into such a thing. I don't personally believe our understanding of the universe is sufficient to rule it out. > But it was already thousands of years ago that our interpretation of life and the value we derive from it reached the understanding that death was not to be feared in the first place. I guess I missed that! I mostly see a lot of mental gymnastics or denial in the form of believe in an after-life.