[jcfields]

"And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away."

[xvector]

This sounds like a desperate attempt to cope with death. We can find better ways to encourage change than literally dying.

If people lived indefinitely but society was a bit stagnant, and you pressed a button to kill 100M random people a year to "encourage change", you'd be regarded as insane, and rightfully so.

Death is not the solution to our problems, just like throwing your computer in the trash isn't a solution to a crashing program.

[8note]

Death is the only working solution we've got.

Once you've solved the other problems, you can work on death

[xvector]

My example

> If people lived indefinitely but society was a bit stagnant, and you pressed a button to kill 100M random people a year to "encourage change", you'd be regarded as insane, and rightfully so.

highlights that it's baseless to put off solving death or even using it as a solution.