Trying to Make Sense of "Life Extension" and People Who Say They Want To Die
First of all, I would like to express empathy for us all that humans are cursed with not wanting to die but being forced to die by external forces.
We all have our way of dealing with this supposed fact/conundrum.
Why work so hard to build something beautiful (life) when you know it's going to crumble or be obliterated...?
There are certainly ways to cope: Religion, drugs, having babies and making overly philosophical art about the nature of being...
...and then of course there my favorite. Th flat out denial of the reality that you have to die.
There is indeed the set of human beings who believe that if you try hard enough to crack the code of life, you can enable a human to live for an indefinite number of years...
I see people confronting death in three ways:
1.) Some people are so overwhelmed that they and everyone else are going to die they go nuts and just kill themselves to get it over with.
2.) Others are more dociley suicidal and "accept their fate" and do weird shit like assert they believe it is their duty to die when "nature" or "god" calls them "to the other side."
3.)Then, there are people who are like: I don't want to fucking die. Fuck you, life is good, have you heard of Medicine. Have you heard of Science...it works, bitches! Have you heard of human progress over time? Science has a pretty good record for fixing things over time and the more people who work on that science, the faster the problem gets fixed...
Death and disease is my biggest problem.
WHAT"S YOUR BIGGEST PROBLEM?
People you love dying is the most fucked up feeling you have ever experienced and if I could save my friends from having to feel it, holy shit, would I.
Human beings have achieved some pretty amazing/brilliant things and I don't see why #stayingalive should not be one of them.
It would also be cool if we could stop letting babies starve and sending soldiers to war...
Since everyone dies, I have always been confused by the phrase "save a life." Sounds like all anyone has ever done is extend the duration of a life. Ironically, many of the people who extend human lifespans do not like to be called "life extensionists."
I have some questions about the so-called radical life extension movement.
What the fuck are people talking about?
Why are people who express that they don't want to die in any way radical?
Why aren't people who perform heart transplants being interviewed for all the recent life extension articles I have seen on the interwebs?
Aren't all people adverse to death? Don't we all believe in science and medicine? Why are we divided on this?
Who are the naysayers? Why are you grumpy and lame?
Why don't you want to help yourself and your loved ones stay alive? Why don't you want to help the people trying to stop your body from "getting old?"
Have you ever bought an anti-aging skincare product?
Why do you believe in the science of wrinkle doctors but not those who study how to manipulate genetics?
Are you aware of the major progress the collaborative powerhouse the Human Genome Project? Have you heard of George Church? He is the badass from Harvard.
Nobody really wants to die. And we all want to help others stay alive.
Staying Alive should be the universal campaign for all of humanity.
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