(November 9, 2013 at 5:00 pm)Ryantology Wrote: I don't really think it's that so much as it is how a lot of people choose to deal with death rather than fear it. It's certainly a more rational coping method than inventing nonsense about the afterlife.I think it can be good to accept that death will happen to everyone, and even have a positive outlook on it, but it is just my experience that a lot of atheists say similar things to this with some sort of attention-seeking motives. But that's only my experience and, like I said, it's not really a fair judgement on my part.
Quote:The reason I disagree is because I do not think it is unhealthy to fear death, as long as that fear doesn't grow into obsession or paranoia. I think of death as a problem that we have continually been trying to conquer since the advent of useful medical science. I really like being alive, and appreciating its necessity won't make me any less dead.I'd like to live in some utopian society where we can essentially live as long as we want and then die whenever we so choose. We'd be so advanced that population growth and lack of resources would be simple, already be solved problems! Everyone could get a "beautiful" death, after their beautiful life!
Would indefinite life lead to new problems, such as hunger and overpopulation? Perhaps so, but outside of a few scattered nutcase circles, I've never heard these cited as reasons to cease attempting to fight disease and improve our quality of life. Hunger and overpopulation are not insoluble problems. I accept that indefinite life would have major ramifications for humanity's future, but I am okay with that.
Though I imagine most of us would want something of the sort.
Optimistic Mysanthrope Wrote:Really? It just makes me think they're probably a goth...This doesn't really have to do with your post, but I feel like I could say that I have never seen a goth in my life. Where are they?
