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To me, death is the ultimate respite. To me, this makes a virtue of necessity. We have deep philosophies around death only because it's inescapable. But if w
by nitrogen 5y ago
To me, death is the ultimate respite.
To me, this makes a virtue of necessity. We have deep philosophies around death only because it's inescapable. But if we could change that, then we could also change those philosophies.
- Barrin92 5y agodeath is more complex than just being inescapable. Death is also a change agent that wipes the slate clean and makes place for the new. It's how all organic life adopts collectively. The first thing that's going to be immortal when death isn't inescapable is Kim Jong Un. No thanks, if you want to see a world without death read Altered Carbon
- kelnos 5y agoAltered Carbon is just one fictionalized, dystopian account. It doesn't have to be bad. Knowing humanity, though, it probably would be.
- xvector 5y agoStuff like that is really easy to say until you are actually on your deathbed.
- oleander73 5y agoI have incurable cancer and let me tell you, talking about curing death is laughably absurd at this point. We don't even have good pain killers.
- xvector 5y agoWhat's absurd is that we aren't even really trying. Curing death and causes of ought to be the singular paramount goal of our society, but it's not, because we have been trained to accept it as inevitable ever since we were capable of thought.
- saulpw 5y agoEverything passes. This is not something that can be conquered; it is an inevitable part of the fabric of existence. Maybe it will one day be possible for people to live indefinitely. Maybe egomaniacs would live for thousands of years if they could. But it is not possible to live forever; the universe itself won't last (at least, in form hospitable to life) forever. And so the cessation of our consciousness is inevitable. We can't change this any more than we can change the value of pi.
- kiba 5y agoInevitable doesn't mean good.