[surprisetalk]

My biggest problem is that I've probably got ~15,000 days of life remaining.

There are only a few ways I might get lucky:

- somebody uploads my mind into a computer

- somebody cures aging

- somebody cures sleep (extra 30% of each day would be nice)

- I decide that ~15,000 days is good enough

[Sohcahtoa82]

Personally, I do not fear death.

I don't fear death because I'm utterly curious. All of your thoughts are functions of a brain, a brain that will stop functioning. So what will you experience? Religious people will say there's an afterlife. A non-religious person might say you experience a void. You see, hear, feel, smell nothing. But if experiences are a function of the brain, and the brain is dead, you can't even experience a void.

It's not possible to imagine a true nothingness. So it brings me back to the original question, what do you experience after death? It's an impossible question to answer without experiencing it. Sure, people have had near-death experiences and talked about them, but I question how many of those experiences are merely hallucinations created by a mind panicking about its demise.

To die is to finally get the answer to the question. I do not fear dying because I will finally have an answer to the unanswerable.

That said, my bigger fear is aging and becoming decrepit. I don't want to survive, I want to live. If I ever get to a point where I'm merely surviving, unable to walk without assistance, unable to wipe my own ass, then I think it'll be time to say I've had a good run and end it.

[JLCarveth]

If your biggest problem is that you will die in 41 years, you must live an incredibly easy life.

[surprisetalk]

I have a friend who has chronic debilitating pain from a spine injury. He's a wonderful and kind person, and I can only imagine what his biggest problems are right now.

Pain and exorbitant medical bills will probably make my death feel small one day. I'll try to enjoy my easy life while I have it :)

[thenaturalist]

While I deeply respect anyone's effort to go down any of the rabbit holes from first to third bullet in the face of something as terminal as death on the one hand, I always chuckle to myself at anyone thinking fixing any of these points (cryogenic storage, curing aging, living infinitely) would be a smart idea - even if possible.

So I rest content and confident that most of it will remain lucid dreams for the foreseeable future thanks to the intricate complexities of biochemistry.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate our general age rising due to improved nutrition and medicine, but I deeply believe we only have the chance to feel truly alive and get ahead because we know we are going to die one day.

Obligatory Steve Jobs quote:

> Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.

> Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

> Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

[deterministic]

Realise that you will never experience being dead. The same way that you didn’t experience anything before being born. So there is nothing to fear. Appreciate that you are one in billions of unborn people that get to experience life! So enjoy it and don’t waste time worrying about things you can’t change anyway.

[WhiteBlueSkies]

Really, how about the transition from alive to dead?

[deterministic]

You experienced the transition from not being born to being born. And from not existing to existing. And yet I am pretty sure you don’t remember any of it.

Same with falling asleep. At some point you are awake and at some other point you wake up from having slept. Death is like falling asleep. That’s why sleep in some cultures is called the “little death”. You practice dying every night.

[WhiteBlueSkies]

No, the transition from not being born to being born is not comparable to the suffering of dying.

We don't remember any of it because pain doesn't necessarily transfer to memory. I agree that death is like falling asleep and never waking up but you don't suffer hopelessly before you fall asleep. Many that are dying do.

My aunt was hopeless during the dying process. There were no singing angels, no great grace descended. It's not a magical experience, it's ugly and continuous suffering before you fall asleep and never wake up.

How could it no be, you will never see your children again. The party continues and you are abandoned for forever.

[_yb2s]

I got a good laugh out of your characterization of sleep as a disease, I very much enjoy it myself.

But it has arguably been “cured” in a sense, look into the Uberman Polyphasic sleep schedule.

[jstx1]

Uploading your mind into a computer wouldn't help even if it worked perfectly. Computer-you would be a copy, real-you will still die in your body.