Why is /sci/ so obsessed with life exension?

[Anonymous No.10656264]

The worst possible existence I can think of is being immortal and watching everyone die around me. My friends, family and then even my own children would grow old and die. It'd be absolutely crushing to experience.

This isn't the natural order of things and we're not ready to have extended lives.

[Anonymous No.10656267]

>>10656264
Read the culture books by Ian M Banks and tell me that isn’t a world you’d want to live in

[Anonymous No.10656268]

>>10656264
watching my family and friends die would be pretty sad, but i'd get over it. I'd just make new friends and new family, shouldn't be a problem with all the time on my hands.

[Anonymous No.10656269]

>having friends, family and children
lol

[Anonymous No.10656271]

>>10656264
Yeah, ok so just because my kids, family and friends have to die means i should go down with them? Sounds retarded, i'd rather take my immortality, their memory will live on inside me maybe i'll even visit their graves once in a hundred years if i feel like it. You can go ahead and die if that's what you prefer.

[Anonymous No.10656276]

>>10656264
>That's right, good goyim just accept your demise
There were trillions of minds that have existed that fear death.
Immortality has always been the goal. I'm sure immortality has already been solved and you long noses are keeping it secret. That is why you long noses made christianity and other religions--to force the goyim to accept their own demise and give up the search of the goal that every cell in their body longs for since birth.

[Anonymous No.10656439]

>>10656264
lol then kill yourself nobody's forcing you to live in any case. Also, if we crack the secret to life-extension you won't watch anyone die around you, they'll live extended lives as well.
Even if it was just you I'm pretty sure "ugh everyone I know is dying around me ugh why am I cursed so" is just a gay meme for melodramatic people.

[Anonymous No.10656471]

>>10656439
this
your main biological drive is survival.
major sacrifices only happen in cinema or / and among insane schizos

[Anonymous No.10656477]

>>10656264
Lol, just make new friends you dumb bitch. Also if your immediate family dies, you will likely still get to hang out with siblings, nephews, your children, cousins, etc. It's not the end of the world when your loved ones die. Plenty of people get over it.

[Anonymous No.10656478]

>>10656264
who cares, you can always make new friends and children.

Think of all the math you can do if you are immortal.
that would be pretty legit.

[Anonymous No.10656500]

>>10656264
>My friends, family and then even my own children would grow old and die.
I don't just want to extend my OWN life. I want to extend the lives of EVERYONE, including said friends and family.

[Anonymous No.10656501]

>>10656264
Life extension =/= immortality, it equals an indefinite lifespan.

[Anonymous No.10656514]

>>10656264
>why do you not want to die?
I mean, if life extension becomes a thing you don't have to watch your friends and family die, they'll get their lives extended too
Besides, you'll literally have all the time you need to cope
Also, life extension doesn't mean you can't peacefully end your life at the age of 300 or 2000 years

[Anonymous No.10656517]

>>10656264
This is such a canned/virtue-signalling response

Just fuck off

[Anonymous No.10656883]

>>10656264
you see anon, as time goes to infinity the probability of me not being a virgin approaches 1.

[Anonymous No.10656923]

>>10656264
>Why is /sci/ so obsessed with life exension?
because they havent found the lord. only atheists fear death

[Anonymous No.10656986]

>>10656923
No, it is god's will that we fight against death and evils, to usher in a perfect world of good, where all men can live happily.

[Anonymous No.10656990]

>>10656264
>The worst possible existence I can think of is being immortal and watching everyone die around me. My friends, family and then even my own children would grow old and die. It'd be absolutely crushing to experience.

Retarded scenario. Imagine instead that they also never die. You’ve basically imagined a “vampire” scenario rather than a “Technology has rendered senescence a non-Factor” scenario

[Anonymous No.10656994]

>>10656923
Damn can’t wait to orbit a child rapist in the clouds forever. Should be fun to ask God Why he thought raping little girls was okay and cool.

[Anonymous No.10656996]

>>10656501
Smartest anon so far.
Even if we find a cure for aging, death still will happen. You can't erase death (accidents will keep happening). Moreover, being immortal but keeping a crippling body of a 110 years old human for centuries might not be the greatest gift...

[Anonymous No.10656997]

>>10656996
>We wouldn’t just replace aging body parts with vat-grown ones or gradually become cybernetic

[Anonymous No.10657006]

>>10656986
God's will is more likely that we resist to evil as much as we can while spreading good, and after our mortal condition ends, we'll be rewarded accordingly (life might be a test & death a door for something else,unknown to mortals)

[Anonymous No.10657008]

>>10656264
Dying sucks sure it would get really boring after 500 years but it sure beats nonexistence.

[Anonymous No.10657013]

>>10657006
>I have any idea whatsoever what an imagined God would want

For all your dumb ass knows, it wants humans to have as much sex with birds as possible.

[Anonymous No.10657018]

>>10656997
Yeaaaah but cybernetic stuff needs maintenance as well, HDDs "die" & lose information, rust happens,etc... And we might really experience Theseus ship at some point.

[Anonymous No.10657024]

>>10656264
The movie you're posting there doesn't even support your message OP, the MC finds happiness even though she disregards the elder's idea of not getting along with human beings because they live short lives in comparison.

[Anonymous No.10657027]

>>10656264
we should be more concerned with tracking consciousness and "souls" or personal individualities, but then this sort of veers off into philosophical-theoretical conceptions of life, existence, the nature of pre-birth, consciousness, etc.

ultimately the notion of life extension in scientific development must be complemented with study of the consciousness in all areas possible

[Anonymous No.10657029]

>>10657018
>Yeaaaah but cybernetic stuff needs maintenance as well

And?
>Equip Thrusto-Cock V200
>It stops working in thirty years
>Replace with Thrusto-Cock V310
>Improve over the course of centuries as better technology becomes available

>HDDs "die" & lose information
Backup every morning

>And we might really experience Theseus ship at some point.

Occurs literally every Planck second. Continuity is an illusion conferred by memory.

[Anonymous No.10657031]

>>10657013
Nah man I'm guessing too : "humans think, God laughs". How can an ant colony understand what the owner has in mind when it can't even fully understand the jar itself?

[Anonymous No.10657032]

>>10657006
Not if you are Zoroastrian. The afterlife is a reward for being good, but all people will live in that afterlife after evil is defeated.

[Anonymous No.10657034]

>>10656996
At some point true immortality or your physical being unable to be rendered into a state of unconsciousness should be possible. If you brain cant be damaged you will never actually die.

[Anonymous No.10657039]

>>10657029
I strongly believe that we should focus more on making the experience better than longer for the sake of it. (don't get me wrong : BOTH can be done simultaneously, but one is, imo, more interesting to pursue than the other)

[Anonymous No.10657197]

i want to live on until the universe dies out and there's nothing left but me and the void

[Anonymous No.10657203]

>>10656264
Why wouldn't your families lives be extended as well?

[Anonymous No.10657205]

>>10656267
fpbp