timtyler comments on Our society lacks good self-preservation mechanisms - Less Wrong
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That's more than balanced by extra births - if the example of Catholics taking over the world by having more children on average has anything to it. The Pope's strategey encourages risk - but the overall effect is positive in terms of helping Catholocism spread. With 1 billion members it must be doing something right.
Well, there's the cryonics death cult. Those guys think that, if you perform expensive rituals over your dead body, it might live forever in paradise.
It's like the Egyptian pharoes have been reincarnated ;-)