Comments on: Death gives meaning to life https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/05/death-gives-meaning-to-life Safeguarding Humanity Tue, 30 May 2017 18:05:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.3 By: Philip Raymond https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/05/death-gives-meaning-to-life#comment-303569 Tue, 30 May 2017 18:05:30 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2017/05/death-gives-meaning-to-life#comment-303569 While I fully agree that life extension is a noble goal—and that life far preferable to death, I disagree that others are disingenuous in accepting death or even citing it as ballast and a motive for attaining a richer life.

I love life and I have feared death even as a young child. If I could have health, mobility, friendships and intact senses (even, perhaps without mobility), I would prefer to live indefinitely. But I believe those who cite death as part of their purpose for living and part of their personal “circle of life”. I realize that they may be conditioned into acceptance by religious belief or the certainty of mortality. But, whatever the reason, their acceptance of death gives a peace that I shall never know. I wish that we were not limited to a single century or less on this beautiful planet. I wish… I wish…

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