Sad. We need to cure cancer. Delete the disease from the source code of reality.
I won't respond to midwit cancer-is-good-actually responses.
I won't respond to midwit cancer-is-good-actually responses.
Not sure why in movies the guy whose looking for eternal life is evil and usually have to gain eternal life by killing others. I respect life, my own and the one of others, sacrificing others to extend my life would not be acceptable.
I would rather increase my life-expectancy of 5 years with science than believing in an immortality based on religions whose fundamental books are full of things we have disproven.
Bible "on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made." No dude, if there ever was a god it would have not taken 6 standard rotations of our sun around our planet. There are billions of stars in our Universe, our Sun doesn't matter to God, home sapiens alone wouldn't particularly matter to God. That story is just completely nonsensical once you know basic astronomy.
So given how ridden of easily disprovable things are religious books, why should you trust them about anything at all? You shouldn't.
Throw away the fairytales books from thousands years ago and stop brainwashing next generations with it.
The way I see it is that we play a game with a set of rules, these rules are mostly unbreakable, I believe that wishing to break these rules is a one trip ticket to continuous disappointment. It's like wishing radio waves didn't exist, no matter how much you'll want it to happen it won't.
I think we should compose with what we have and make the best out of it instead of continuously wishing to have more, if not cancer it'll be dementia, cardiovascular disease, an accident, &c. you might tweak things here and there (vaccines, medicine, healthy lifestyle) but you'll never escape the inevitable; I actually don't believe most people really wish to live longer, there are many ways to lengthen/optimise your lifespan/healthspan and it is obvious that the vast majority of people aren't putting any effort into that, what's the point of living to 1000 ? we can already live to 90 but most people let their body rot well before they get to even half of that
I understand that nobody wants to die but it's a fact of life, it doesn't matter if you want to be immortal or not, what matters is how you approach death, do you let it consume your every thoughts or do you make the best of your time while awaiting it peacefully. Do you take it like a toddler: "I want Y !!!!" or like an adult: "X is happening, it is out of my control, I have to handle it and my the best out of the situation"
> No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it. Rehearse this thought every day, that you may be able to depart from life contentedly; for many men clutch and cling to life, even as those who are carried down a rushing stream clutch and cling to briars and sharp rocks. -Seneca
Our longevity isn't some fundamental law of physics.
Our longevity isn't the speed of light or absolute 0F.
There isn't written anywhere we are supposed to die at 20 or 40 or 100 or 1000.