Technological Immortality

[KevinM1]

Why would anyone want to prolong human life? Why go through such a hassle just to avoid something as painless as death? In the view of Epicurus, death is something to be embraced, for it puts an end to suffering and pain. Transhumanism seems like just another way of trying to avoid or sublimate the threatening, but, for better or worse, "unavoidable shipwreck" (Schopenhauer) that nonexistence poses.

If suffering and pain can be mitigated and/or eliminated here, then why not?  That's the entire point of medicine, no?  I mean, if that's really your view, then I guess you don't need those pesky vaccinations, or any kind of life-prolonging upkeep.

I want to live as long as I can because I'm curious.  I want to see if we ever leave the solar system.  I want to see if we ever meet other intelligent life.  I want to see if we can stop from destroying ourselves.  I want to see what passes as popular culture a couple hundred years from now.  Everything from music, to theater, to fashion, to literature, and to all the things which may supplant them.  I want to see Catholicism whither and die as the outdated patriarchy it is.  I want to see the developed countries give a shit about Africa.  I want to see us actually obtain energy independence and an entirely renewable infrastructure.

I can't see most/any of that when I'm dead.