How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)

Re:How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016) by dinkleberg on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @09:05PM (#28465028)

Is it fair to future generations who are yet to be born to write off the possibility of their ever being born because we're selfish and want to live forever? There is some limit to the number of humans we can support on earth, so if everyone is living millions of years (or more realistically let's say hundreds of years) we would have to drastically cut the world's reproduction rates.

Maybe I'm overthinking it, but I feel like that is the classic hubris of mankind to aspire to become gods. We want to control nature and life, yet our limited knowledge prevents us from understanding the ramifications of our actions until it is too late. (Under a White Sky is an interesting read on the subject)

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Re:How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016) by kelnos on Thursday September 09, 2021 @04:11AM (#28467441)

> I feel like that is the classic hubris of mankind to aspire to become gods

Gods were invented by people who refused to admit their ignorance of things they couldn't understand or explain.

Every year the list of unexplainable things gets shorter and shorter. Maybe we'll never be able to explain everything, but I do believe it's within reach to understand the aging process to the point of being able to reverse or even halt it. It may not happen in our lifetimes, and the society that figures it out may not be able to deal with the ramifications properly, but they will learn over time. Just as we've done with scientific and technological advancements in the past. Sometimes you can't figure out how to deal with something until you have to deal with it.

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Re:How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016) by TeMPOraL on Thursday September 09, 2021 @06:43AM (#28468261)

> I feel like that is the classic hubris of mankind to aspire to become gods. We want to control nature and life, yet our limited knowledge prevents us from understanding the ramifications of our actions until it is too late.

But we are becoming gods. The problem isn't with the aspiration, the problem is that we currently suck at being gods and need to get better at it.

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Re:How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016) by pochekailov on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @09:07PM (#28465049)

So you would rather die, and let everybody who live now die, for the sake of the potential future generation?

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