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Wow, this was awesome! I wish I had read the canon so I would have had a chance to think about/predict what would happen when Harry read that inscription. This was just beautiful - a reminder of the heritage that transhumanists often forget we have. True, we have precious little tradition or precedent to fall back on - but in every generation in every era in every part of the world, there have been people who knew death for what it was and loathed it.
HPMOR is starting to be one tear jerker after another. I hope we'll get to see a couple more moments of levity, or - ideally - a moment of euphoria, when Hermione joins millions and millions of others we thought lost to history.
Edit: I really wish the word "pro-life" were available to describe this position.
Even "Resurrection" has been hijacked.
I've been in the habit of using "Mass True Resurrection," to make the D&D reference instead of the Christian one.
To a non D&D-er like me, it still has the other connotations.
"Resurrection" has been taken for 2000 years, but for a few decades there we had a chance with "pro-life." :(
Quick! Grab the third best word and trademark it!
Seriously though, I think "transhumanism" is too long and jargon-y, not to mention understanding it requires some knowledge of both humanism and Latin roots. The ideology deserves a word that is as pure and simple as the emotions behind it.
I've been using "lifeist" in my head for a while.
Another good word that's already taken: survivalist.
I've heard "deathist" used to describe the opposing side more often than "lifeist" for the supporting side. "Lifeist" just sounds a bit awkward and silly, and "deathist", while funny, seems too much like typical Dark Arts tarring.
Immortalism?
Sounds evil.
I've been using "anti-death."
Lifeism.
I once called my brother a deathist, and he said, "Nuh uh, I'm just an anti-liveite!"
Like racism, sexism, ageism,...? In a crowded world will "lifeist!" become a snarled curse at anyone not dutifully shuffling off stage after their threescore and ten?
No. At people who don't want equal rights for zombies.
"Anti-death" isn't too bad, but "anti-deathism" is horribly clunky.