{"id":70367,"date":"2017-06-14T09:22:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T16:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/if-you-dont-die-you-cant-reach-god"},"modified":"2017-06-14T09:22:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T16:22:24","slug":"if-you-dont-die-you-cant-reach-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/if-you-dont-die-you-cant-reach-god","title":{"rendered":"If you don\u2019t die, you can\u2019t reach God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are religious, or have religious friends worried about the implications of rejuvenation for their beliefs, this article may help.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Preamble: I am an atheist. So I don\u2019t have any God-related issues concerning rejuvenation\/living forever. Other people, though, may believe there\u2019s an afterlife waiting for them once they die, or that curing ageing equals playing God. I don\u2019t think these are particularly problematic concerns.<\/p>\n<p>First, if anyone at all, believer or not, wishes to die at any point, I am in no position to object. It\u2019s their life, not mine, and they can do with it whatever they see fit. If you are afraid of never reaching your god because of quasi-immortality, I think you should be free to die the way you wish, be it by ageing or whatever way you prefer (as long as you don\u2019t take others down with you). I think it\u2019d be crazy to terminate your life for this reason, but hey, whatever sinks floats your boat. It\u2019s your choice, and you should be given it. Rejuvenation isn\u2019t about forcing people to never die. It\u2019s about giving them the possibility of living in perfect health for as long as they see fit.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/rejuvenaction.wordpress.com\/answers-to-objections\/objections-to-living-forever\/if-you-dont-die-you-cant-reach-god\/\">https:\/\/rejuvenaction.wordpress.com\/answers-to-objections\/ob...reach-god\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are religious, or have religious friends worried about the implications of rejuvenation for their beliefs, this article may help. Preamble: I am an atheist. So I don\u2019t have any God-related issues concerning rejuvenation\/living forever. Other people, though, may believe there\u2019s an afterlife waiting for them once they die, or that curing ageing equals [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}