(July 13, 2015 at 6:50 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: What do you think about death?
On worse days, I desperately want it. On better ones, I don't care.
Quote: Is it really inevitable?
Everything that's ever lived is going to die. Pretty inevitable, yes.
Quote: Do you think we'll ever surpass it? Do you think, maybe, it will happen during your lifetime[there's no pun here]?
No and no. We may postpone it for quite some time with enough effort, but I don't believe we'll ever get rid of it.
Quote:Would you choose to live forever, provided you stay (or get) young and carefree and everyone you know does too? Would you like to live throughout the millenia? What would you do with your eternity?
No. No. Kill myself eventually. Living forever would be torture, even if I wasn't already suicidal.
Quote:If you don't think that we'll ever surpass death[either by scientific means or religious mumbo jumbo like reincarnation and heaven/hell] than how do you cope with the thought of death? How does it all make sense to you when and if you know that not even transmision of genes and memes is liable to withstand time[meaning that those same genes and memes will die one at a time, at least altogether with the minds that receive them]?
Or do you merely think of yourself as part of the universe and so pretend not to care all that much for your own conscience?
I just really don't care.
