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. Medicine is and always has been challenging that. After all what else is the point of medicine if not to extend the time and quality of life. Taking that to it’s fullest logical conclusion is immortality. And if you disagree, where does medicine end? When do we stop advancing medicine? Never, would be my answer. We keep working and we will end death.

So does death give life meaning? No, of-course not, Meaning in life is found through living. With no death we might even have more meaning, as we would have more time to find it. All life strives to survive and thrive, the meaning of life is very simply to live. Is life immoral? Not from a utilitarian perspective, I would say life inherently increases utility, by it’s very nature, so no, life is not immoral. Death however, being the opposite of life would there by inherently decrease utility by it’s very nature, meaning death is immoral the epitome of immorality in fact. But life, life is the epitome of morality. So if to increase life is to increase utility, then immortality would be a very ethical endeavor. And anti-natalism is dumb, and unethical, as it denies the inherent utility increase of life, and advocates for limiting it. Overpopulation is also a dumb non problem, and will likely never actually pose a threat. The only way it could is if there were so many people on earth it began to weigh out of orbit. Now you might say if no one ever died, then that would happen after a while. But I'd say those STEM fields will figure that out. And the longer experts live, the more we can figure out. This is my response to the other criticisms of immortality. Like cellular degeneration and/or memory issues. Once life has been extended for everyone, we will have more time to check off all the necessary steps.

In conclusion I never want to die, and if you say you do, I don’t believe you. No living thing wants to die, suicide is more a delusion than a genuine desire, and the survival instincts of ALL living things demonstrates this. I would recommend watching CGP Grey videos titled “Why Die?” ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C25qzDhGLx8 ) and “The Fable of the Dragon- Tyrant” ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYNADOHhVY ) . This has been a rant about death and why you should NOT accept it.