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cheer up, we will be the last to die

• rbanffy 3y ago
  It’s an interesting concept that, just a couple generations down the road, there will be relatively few people who have experienced aging and the death that comes with it. I remember in Cocoon, one of the most touching scenes is between a husband who just lost his wife and an alien captain who just lost a friend for the first time in his multi millennium life. The alien’s empathy towards the tragedy of human condition drives him to offer immortality to the old humans he befriended. And all of them accept, with the exception of the one who lost his wife.