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> Death will simply takes us back to where we came from before our birth. I prefer existing and being conscious to not existing, everything else is just detail
by KronisLV 4y ago
> Death will simply takes us back to where we came from before our birth.
I prefer existing and being conscious to not existing, everything else is just details.
The finality of death is perhaps the only thing that human beings should be truly afraid of and treat as an engineering/biology problem to be solved as soon as possible, the other details and impact of this should be addressed later.
This complacence with the status quo is harmful in that regard.
Even if you don't want immortality, not having the last decades of your life being trapped in a decaying flesh prison while your brain and organs are riddled with various diseases does sound like how things should be. Even if aging cannot be eliminated entirely (for now), its effects definitely should be lessened, so people can live out their lives respectfully and comfortably, what modern medicine is very gradually advancing towards.
Cryogenics just acknowledge that focusing on this to the point of beating aging altogether is unlikely and that we're all born in the wrong time and come to the conclusion that maybe 1% chance at survival is better than 0%. Most if not all will sadly not survive.