We could possibly avoid death one day.
Seriously?
I believe your attitude legitimizes death because we've always had to accept it in the past. It's never been a choice.
I seriously don't believe we will be able to live forever some day.
I just don't think it's possible, from my understanding of medicine.
I do think we can live longer due to figuring out how the "cell death mechanism" works, sure.
Or maybe we can start growing and harvesting organs.
But the body still ages and wears out and gets old.
And we'll have overpopulation issues that can't be dodged (both spatial issues and resource issues).
And just maybe, not everyone WANTS to live forever?
I believe thinking that way feels a bit like giving up and laying down to die. Giving up a part of your soul.
Okay, I can see why you are responding as you are, if that is how you perceive it.
On the contary, though, I believe it is death and finality that gives human life meaning.
Look at what human beings have done any time that death and health issues and whatever else has not been an issue. Look at the United States. Are we happier? Or are we more prone to mental illness? Are we more productive with our extra time, or do we just piss away feeling like, "Oh, I'll just get to that tomorrow"?
The problem is not our mortality, it's human beings. We excel at making ourselves more miserable, the more things that are available to us. It's those who are embracing their mortality that actually burn more brightly and do important things and lead the way for the numbed masses.
human beings really stink in a structureless world, tbh. We just can't deal or function at our best.
I agree with you 100% on the last little bit. My role as I've always believed is fight until you can't.
Just because you embrace your mortality doesn't mean you are not a fighter. Anyone who knows anything about me knows how much of a fighter / endurance runner I am in how I live my life... and I'm more of a fighter now, rather than less.
You have some really unnecessary binaries set up in your head, from what you have described of your philosophy here. I think you are putting unnecessary definitions and limits on things.