LeibnizBasher comments on Secrets of the eliminati - Less Wrong

93 Post author: Yvain 20 July 2011 10:15AM

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Comment author: AbyCodes 24 July 2011 07:19:52AM *  1 point [-]

quoted text if you were in a burning building, you would try pretty hard to get out. Therefore, you must strongly dislike death and want to avoid it. But if you strongly dislike death and want to avoid it, you must be lying when you say you accept death as a natural part of life and think it's crass and selfish to try to cheat the Reaper.

Won't it be the case that someone who tries to escape from a burning building, does so, just to avoid the pain and suffering it inflicts? It would be such a drag to be burned alive rather than a peaceful painless poison death.

Comment author: LeibnizBasher 24 July 2011 09:22:11PM 1 point [-]

Death from old age often involves drowning in the fluid that accumulates in your lungs when you get pneumonia.