Re:Anti-Aging Startup Raises $116M With Bezos Backing
by nostrademons on Thursday October 27, 2016 @08:06PM
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That seems even more meaningless though, to make the moment of your death random rather than mostly-predictable. I mean, it'd suck to live my life like I had a million years and then get hit by a bus tomorrow.
Re:Anti-Aging Startup Raises $116M With Bezos Backing
by aaron-lebo on Thursday October 27, 2016 @08:10PM
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A teenager got hit and killed by a car today. Probably seemed pretty random to them. What's the difference?
Hell, if age couldn't kill you, then you could chose your death, which is less random than a heart attack or stroke.
You could still just as easily get hit by a car when you are 90 and look 20. Or 1000 and look 20, assuming that's even possible. What's really interesting is if people could actually prolong their lifespan indefinitely but we have the same limited bodies. Then you'll see people trying really hard to say alive to comical effect.
I think Aronofsky's The Fountain is a really great outlook on death. It is a disease and like any disease we may as well try hard to defeat it. Doesn't mean it isn't very natural.