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I'm going to tell you, my grandfather and grandmother, simple people growing up on farmland seemed to harbor no such feelings of dread, accepted their death wit
by Barrin92 5y ago
I'm going to tell you, my grandfather and grandmother, simple people growing up on farmland seemed to harbor no such feelings of dread, accepted their death with dignity, in fact always saw it as a vital part of life (probably not unrelated to their lived experience as farmers, and when they died, they did so without much grief or terror.
What they definitely didn't do was build a Ziggurat to cryofreeze their corpses in or put their heads in jars. I don't think the kind of ego that is required to engage in these immortality ventures is that common, that's just yet another thing that Bezos et al tell themselves
- dbtc 5y agoYour grandparents sound like awesome people. Do you know what their beliefs were about post-death / after-life?
- Barrin92 5y agoThey were raised in a Christian household and I think kept a lot of the practical ethics of it but I don't think they were genuinely religious later in life or had any spiritual beliefs. I don't think I ever asked them directly but I suppose they were just agnostic about it and it didn't occupy them much.
- CobrastanJorji 5y agoAccepting an inevitable death with dignity and grace is great and a blessing, but when we've got other options, we take them. I go to the doctor when I'm sick, I get vaccinated when there's a plague, I'll let surgeons cut me open if something is going very wrong inside, and if there were a magic "stop aging" pill, I'd take it, and I suspect you'd find nearly everyone else would indeed have that kind of ego.
- Chris2048 5y ago> What they definitely didn't do was build a Ziggurat to cryofreeze their corpses was that an option? what you attribute to lack of ego, could also be lack of funds.