Greg Linster on the beauty of death

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Without death we cannot truly have life. As such, what a travesty of life it would be to achieve a machine-like immortality!

Gray writes the following chilling lines: “If you understand that in wanting to live for ever you are trying to preserve a lifeless image of yourself, you may not want to be resurrected or to survive in a post-mortem paradise. What could be more deadly than being unable to die?” (my emphasis)

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Sounds like sour grapes. I'd heard of people holding such sentiments; this is the first time I've actually seen them expressed myself.

Without death we cannot truly have life. As such, what a travesty of life it would be to achieve a machine-like immortality!

Gray writes the following chilling lines: “If you understand that in wanting to live for ever you are trying to preserve a lifeless image of yourself, you may not want to be resurrected or to survive in a post-mortem paradise. What could be more deadly than being unable to die?” (my emphasis)

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Sounds like sour grapes. I'd heard of people holding such sentiments; this is the first time I've actually seen them expressed myself.

What could be more deadly than being unable to die?

Anything. Quite literally, anything at all. All of the things are more deadly than being unable to die.

Well... I am firmly in the pro-immortality camp. However, I have given thought to the quandary of the fact that for any given immortal being, the probability of becoming eternally trapped at any given moment in a "And I Must Scream" scenario is non-zero (though admittedly vanishingly small). An infinitessimally likely result will occur at least once in an infinite number of trials, however, so... that's a troublesome one.

Better to be immortal with the option of suicide, than to be literally incapable of dying.

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