Accepting the inevitable

[Excited Penguin]

I'm sorry, but I don't find anything conforting about the thought that I'll have died before too long after I have been born. And neither do I think anyone is really O.K. with it. Whenever I hear someone say that death is universal and inevitable I roll my eyes. That's too dogmatic for my liking. What is life any way? What makes you think we won't be able to extend it in the future if we thoroughly understand the processes that make it up? I've heard it's more like a simple engineering problem, where our biology is concerned. Nothing to fret about. I would like to live for at least a couple million years. No, I don't think I'll just get bored with life - at least not forever. Life will be the same, more or less, I reckon - it will have its ups and downs. Nothing new there. Why shouldn't I wish this possibility opened up during my lifetime? I see nothing wrong with it.

I know I (basically) don't have any say in the matter, at least not that I see. But I have enough trust in my own species and its scientific endeavours that they'll surpass death, in a sense, one day - whether it will be during my own lifetime or not is my own problem. I do not accept that I'll just die, not as far as I'm alive anyway. What point is there in life if it's how you say? That you get to experience a few beautiful moments and that's it? Well, I firmly say that's just not enough. Far from it. That's bullshit.