My husband says according to science, the body does not begin to age until you reach 30 years old. Every year leading up to this is just our bodies growing up and maturing. He is very much a logical thinking person.
While this is a very valid response, it's just not how I feel about life. I have always felt we all start aging from the second we're born. We are put here to learn and we do that from the time we are born, until the time we pass. So to me, it's not even a question.
I'm just throwing this out to everyone as I am curious to your take on the matter.
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But the human mind is perhaps the most interesting part of a human being to consider in this regard. I would say that the mind starts to age when learning becomes a chore instead of a delight and passion. I am not talking about just academic learning but all kinds of learning. So if you are always exploring to find new things to understand with your mind, then you have not started to age and your brain is still rewiring itself to meet the new demands you place on it.
What are they thinking? Would that mean we'd really have to export populationis to other planets?
What kind of meaning would life have without death?
Any takers on this cockamamy idea?
If you are a Christian or a Muslim you already expect to exist as an entity, forever. If you are only concerned with the physical body existence, then you would have to first overcome the accident problem. Backup copies or something of that sort would be necessary since even a very low accident rate when carried over enough thousands of years would kill everyone. SO don't worry about living "forever" or even a million years. It is not going to happen to human beings. (Now what comes after us I could not limit in that fashion.)
Einstein is said to have regretted being part of the development of the atomic bomb but at the time there was a perceived need and justification for it and we see now the consequences.
What I also heard recently re: is that empathy is maybe part of our genetic makeup, that scientists think they've located a mirror neuron that seems to fire our empathetic feelings.
I can see where that neuron short-circuits with psychopaths who seem not to have normal human feelings but most of us can't help but react to other's pain and other human emotions.
Science discovers pretty good approximations to how things work, engineers apply those ideas in creating applications, and politicians and businessmen decide what use is to be made of them. We all get to share the credit or blame.
As is said, be careful how and what you wish for!
Can you imagine having cancer and being immortal? Yuck. I'd rather be mortal. Death is all right for me.
To have lived fully has two ways of viewing that: 1) that enough is enough, I've seen it all, thankyou and then 2) let me off, the idea of going on sucks.
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I have lived fully and enjoyed quite a lot of it. But human beings simply wear out. We are finite, limited. It's quite all right for me to die. It's going to happen someday anyway. I have no fear of nothingness or not existing. I am agnostic so I have no expectations either positive or negative about whether there is an "afterlife" or not nor what it might be like if it exists. I can die cheerfully.
I certainly hope I'll be spared of pain and most of all, from suffering but can we really make conditions?
In the end, it seems it really is in "God's hands".
Not having any personal experience with actually dying I can't say for sure what my emotional state will be at that time but I did almost die during surgery for a heart problem (now fixed up quite nicely) and was in the ICU for several days listening to the machinery hooked up to me record my heart beats and blood pressure. I felt just fine. The prospect of dying in the next few minutes didn't bother me at all.