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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by Barrin92 on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @11:11PM (#28151343)
death is more complex than just being inescapable. Death is also a change agent that wipes the slate clean and makes place for the new. It's how all organic life adopts collectively.

The first thing that's going to be immortal when death isn't inescapable is Kim Jong Un. No thanks, if you want to see a world without death read Altered Carbon

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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by kelnos on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @11:32PM (#28151535)
Altered Carbon is just one fictionalized, dystopian account. It doesn't have to be bad.

Knowing humanity, though, it probably would be.

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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by xvector on Thursday August 12, 2021 @12:40AM (#28152022)
Stuff like that is really easy to say until you are actually on your deathbed.
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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by oleander73 on Thursday August 12, 2021 @07:40AM (#28154989)
I have incurable cancer and let me tell you, talking about curing death is laughably absurd at this point. We don't even have good pain killers.
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Re:Monday was my 46th birthday and likely my last (2013) by xvector on Thursday August 12, 2021 @02:48PM (#28159973)
What's absurd is that we aren't even really trying. Curing death and causes of ought to be the singular paramount goal of our society, but it's not, because we have been trained to accept it as inevitable ever since we were capable of thought.
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