Yeah sometimes guys will try to talk to me about immortality or uploading their consciousness or whatever and I just have to nod politely because apparently it's a downer if you say you would literally rather die
It’s not a downer to me, people should be able to live as long as they like, I think. Still I wonder if most people who say this sort of thing will still say it when they’re staring down death. I mean most people who are ill want to get better and go to doctors and stuff
i mean if age related health problems begin in your 60s or 70s that's 80%+ of your life dealing with them if you live to be 400. i think saying that this sounds bad is not the same as saying 'i want to die'
Totally agree, and all the talk about how *awful" it would be to live centuries feels like sour grapes/cope. I can just about imagine how "literally forever" might get to be a bit much, but even then, it's not like anyone's tried it.
That doesn't necessarily make that feeling correct, right? Like NIMBYs are often correct when they say "you'd feel different if [infrastructure] was being built closer to you" but like, that doesn't make them right?
Honestly it kind of reminds me of people who, when they find out I don't plan to have children, say "one day your biological clock will start ticking and you'll change your mind, you'll see!"
Most people who are ill go to the doctor because they want to stop being ill. If they cannot stop being ill, often they do choose euthanasia over living with the illness
I'd guess the main difference in how people respond is whether they think being immortal would cause them suffering or not
FWIW, I'm pretty stoic about death because I had an extremely close call with it in 2020 ('wrote up a will and then threw out everything I owned that wasn't listed in it' close), and so I feel like I've already made my peace with it
When my grandparents died people constantly offered me this comfort and I was like "No, it just sucks that they died, they were good deserved to live for as long as they wanted to. No number makes it ok."
A crazy guy who claimed to be possessed by the spirit of death once told me that I would die at age 93 and then rise again as a god, so my fingers are crossed.
Huh? 85 is long man, I'm hoping for 65, I also think immortality politics even to the degree of striving for 120 or some shit is criminal and antisocial.
I really appreciate how often you say things like this, you're just so uncomfortable with mortality, in a way that resonates even though I'm much less positive about life/less negative about death than you are
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I'd guess the main difference in how people respond is whether they think being immortal would cause them suffering or not
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2017/10/could-death-be-a-bad-thing
According to The Decemberists, General Sherman agrees