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Life, Death, and Immortality

When people say “we need to accept death”, I can’t help but think “NOW”, we just checked off the first step to immortality, and NOW we need to accept death. What if people said that about cholera in the water? “We just need to accept that there is cholera in the water”. Some people also say “the fear of death is irrational”. But if that's true than there is no rational fear, we judge the rationality of a fear based on how likely it is to ACTUALLY kill you. I think immortality is possible, and simply a design problem. We currently have the medical technology to keep someones body alive and functioning for an indefinite period of time. That is what I meant when I said we had checked off the first step to immortality, the next step being to make that tech more efficient and practical. A life support system fitted into Davros chair, and Science, Technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields will figure this out too. Despite what people say about death being inevitable. Med