/sci/ - Science & Math

>>7370527
Most people seem to be complacent, it's such a difficult problem that they will just try to cope with the problem rather than attempt to tackle it. This thread is evident of that in the first few posts. If dying was desirable they would've killed themselves instead of posting.

>>7370542
>Yes, people are mature and are able to accept that life is finite and meaningless
Meaning is something brains give to thoughts, there being no objective meaning in life doesn't mean you should just let yourself die. That's silly. Stop going to the doctor if you believe in this.

>>7370548
>Aging and death are not illnesses or negatives
They're the negative from the perspective of what's dying. It's the reason we have medicine, most of medicine is pointless by your logic.

>Most of the unhappiness we create is from what we demand out of life, which is often very unrealistic, especially in
First world privilege, you wouldn't be saying that if you didn't have food on the table every night.

>Western society and deeply religious societies.
So is the rest of the world, unfortunately. *tips fedora

Religion is likely the source of this mass death cult attitude among atheists.
>born into religion which preaches the acceptance of death
>eventually realize god doesn't exist
>religious influence still clouds moral and philosophical judgement

>By fighting against the very elements that define our existence, they become a source of suffering.
No, it gives us something to struggle for. A reason to go on and do amazing scientific and engineering feats.

>>7370551
OK, with biological immortality we'd have the opportunity to live to then. I'd like to. Idk why nobody else seems to want to.

If you guys are serious about this, I have bad news for you: you are retarded.
Now, go and be invested by a train, because your atoms could be recreated in the same pattern somewhere, sometime in the universe, so you won't experience death, right? This is not different from the topic being discussed in this cancer thread. The fact that the reconstruction of the pattern happens istantly is absolutely meaningless to your point of view, and if you negate this, you either haven't understood the concept of death, the concept of individual, or the concept of "MUH THESE ARE THE SAME ATOMS" which you keep shouting.

No. They aren't.