#its silly to me. stop being weird abt death challenge | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

c-kiddo · 1 year ago

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watched latest tom scott video (about a cryonics facility) and was so taken aback by him keeping on really strongly saying humans should be working to “defeat death”.. like girl it is just not happening.

(humans wont defeat death the same way we wont conquer chomolungma or mars or the ocean. we will die because we're alive like every other animal and all the stars ever, and fighting that feels so ignorant and also prevents actual action and discussion of rights as humans after death , imo. and death rights and normalising of death and mourning are actually so important. because otherwise cultures' (western, often the US in specific) fear of death leads to nonsense like people get buried in reinforced caskets and embalmed with chemicals that’ll poison the soil but wont stop you rotting)

#its just interesting to hear someone say that really comfortably and not elaborate. especially with a vry big following #idk what his deal is (credentials-wise) apart from making youtube videos but i just found is kind of wild. like i want to know more of why #he thinks that!!!!!! its interesting to me sm #(also you should watch Atrocity Guide’s video about immortalists and cryonics. its v good)#kiddo say #acknowledgment that im not a scientist either but i think its pretty clear that humans wont be immortal. our bodies just cant really do tha #i mean. unless by defeating death you mean uploading a consciousness online? which would be vry unreliable #its silly to me. stop being weird abt death challenge

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