Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Houshalter 4643 days ago
What's wrong with dying? I don't want to die. I don't want to see the people I love die. It's not "part of life" or some other crazy rationalization to make us feel better about it. It's just ceasing to exist. There is no other life.

We used to think there was some magical soul thing, but now we can look and see how the very neurons in your brain work. And when they stop working, that's it.

I don't accept death. It isn't part of any greater purpose. The universe isn't optimized for human values. But we can change that.

One day future humans will look back on ancient Earth and wonder how terrible it must have been to live for mere decades. If you were to try to convince them that dying was a good thing and they should give up their immortality, they would laugh at you.