I don’t actually think people want to die. I think people think they want to die.
When I have this discussion I often try to paint this scenario: It’s easy for you to say you’d want to die now, but imagine for a moment that you live in a future where two of your three neighbors already got their life extension treatment and felt super young, vitalized and healthy again, while you’re pushing 60 and you notice how you’re slowly falling apart. Many celebrities do it routinely, and eventually even some of your closest family members become convinced and get the treatment as well and some of them even keep pushing you on why the hell you haven’t done it yet. If you were not making this decision in some theoretical vacuum but inside some actually plausible social context, I don’t think you would possibly choose to just die while everyone else around you is having fun or begging you with tears in their eyes to not be a fucking traditionalist moron about this imagined non-issue.
Usually a lot of people then switch gears into justifying how its probably not possible anyway instead of actually engaging that particular argument and I shift gears into ending the conversation. They’ll do it anyway—I know it, you know it and maybe they know it too now.
I don’t actually think people want to die. I think people think they want to die.
When I have this discussion I often try to paint this scenario: It’s easy for you to say you’d want to die now, but imagine for a moment that you live in a future where two of your three neighbors already got their life extension treatment and felt super young, vitalized and healthy again, while you’re pushing 60 and you notice how you’re slowly falling apart. Many celebrities do it routinely, and eventually even some of your closest family members become convinced and get the treatment as well and some of them even keep pushing you on why the hell you haven’t done it yet. If you were not making this decision in some theoretical vacuum but inside some actually plausible social context, I don’t think you would possibly choose to just die while everyone else around you is having fun or begging you with tears in their eyes to not be a fucking traditionalist moron about this imagined non-issue.
Usually a lot of people then switch gears into justifying how its probably not possible anyway instead of actually engaging that particular argument and I shift gears into ending the conversation. They’ll do it anyway—I know it, you know it and maybe they know it too now.