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Thank you for the kind comment! I’m glad this helped you take a fresh perspective! One of the hardest parts of receiving mental healthcare is wondering what your providers think of about you while poking around your head. It’s important to me to try to convey to my patients that even though I can’t know exactly how it feels to be them, I will believe what they tell me about their experience, and use that information to make the very best choices I can in caring for them.

As someone who's currently alive, I find the prospect of my eventual death very annoying.

Sounds like my last DMT trip

After being put under with a similar experience I came to theorize the same possible outcome

The technology at some point will exist to restore our consciousness and perhaps that could be the eternal bliss or damnation that is awaiting us in the "after life"

A problem with no solution is still a problem.

>The goal of Christianity is not to live forever. Christians believe that everyone does live forever, albeit not in the same place.

The goal of a religion isn't to believe the beliefs of that religion? Well, alright.

I would highly recommend Shelly Kagan's course on death, it is part of Yale's Open Courses initiative. It touches many interesting topics.

There is much worth reading in this topic that is not referenced in the article. I highly recommend Death by Shelly Kagan, and also Death and the Afterlife by Samuel Scheffler.

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The hiding of death is a relatively new social phenomenon. For most of human history we lived in tribal extended families, where everyone was exposed to everything all the time.

I’d surmise the recent sanitization of the dying process in the developed world has contributed greatly to a general increase of neuroticism surrounding it.

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>Well good, then I'm glad I never even came close to suggesting that.
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>I'd think "acceptance" does, in fact, suggest that. "Eh, body's broken, what are ya gonna do?

If you actually want to conflate "acknowleding that death is part of life" with "neglecting to fix the machine at all," that is certainly a choice you can make. Seems like a bit of a stretch to me.

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>Isn't that just transhumanism with extra steps?
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>No.
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>Well, I mean, if the goal is to live forever.

The goal of transhumanism may be to live forever. The goal of Christianity is not to live forever. Christians believe that everyone does live forever, albeit not in the same place.

As someone who doen't know much about philosophy (and/or existentialism), is Emil Cioran a good place to start? I have seen a couple of quotes by him and some of them resonated with me. So, I was thinking maybe I can start reading some of his books but I'm not sure if they would be difficult to follow?

It's not the road that leads to death's door that is the problem for me, nor is whatever lies on the other side, well mostly. The main problem is the inevitable painful process of squeezing through that door.

I thought of that, and that is what’s always told, but any proof?

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The root problem of death is life. That conscious experience is what gives us suffering and the fear of death. You’d have to put an end to all potential life if you wanted to solve the problem.

Of course that’s not an option but neither is living forever. That’s why most philosophers teach to accept it as it is ultimately the course of the universe that decides our fate.

Even the whole thing of drugging the dying people with morphine takes a long time (I’ve seen this happening with cancer patients and super old people where it’s basically assisted dying).

Literally the same as being asleep. Literally the same as before you were born. You just don’t exist.

Next time you wake up, as soon as you wake up think “where was I?”

You weren’t in blackness, you were in non existence.

U do but can't remember it :)

It's what your life was like before you were born.

Am I the only one who couldn't read it? Something popped up for me to subscribe to.

Sounds like my ketamine therapy experiences.

> Well good, then I'm glad I never even came close to suggesting that.

I'd think "acceptance" does, in fact, suggest that. "Eh, body's broken, what are ya gonna do?"

>>Isn't that just transhumanism with extra steps?

>No.

Well, I mean, if the goal is to live forever.