The pain of aging, and wishing for death.
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Loading ...It’s interesting…When you bring up the subject of longer lifespans, peoples minds do what they so often do in a conversation, they search for novelty. After a few thousand conversations, you find that regardless of the subject, the person you’re speaking to wants to sound good, and be respected. Quite often in order to feel respected they look for a novel way to look at something, mention something you might not know about it, or talk about something else they know about that’s related. It’s a great way to show value I think. Sadly, whenever you talk about slowing aging, the most common near enevitable novel concept they arrive at is: “Why it’s bad” and if you get past that you get to “Why it can’t happen.” You rarely get to the hows because the why’s are insurrmountable. It’s more important for the other participant of the conversation to appear novel, above all else.
The next time you’re in a conversation with someone, watch where the exchange gets taken, and count the number of times you or the person you’re speaking to tries to rack up “novelty” points.
Folks that have talked among friends and acquaintances enough have well memorized the novel ideas people come up with when first exposed to slowing aging as a good idea. They’ve even named some of them. I’ll talk about this one, “the Tithonus error.” In short, there was a greek god who punished a man with eternal life, but didn’t slow down his aging, so he lived on a very very long time in a very very poor condition wishing for death. The good news is, longevicists have little desire to prolong agony, and the abiltiy to create such prolonged agony as far as anti aging interventions go, is much much harder than it is to keep young people young.
Here’s an example of a person living one of these “novel” ideas of being kept alive against her will. This is an example of what you get from NOT achieving goals in the slowing of aging. To support aging is to support this: New York times
I’ll spend the time to show the other common novel and erroneous ideas I hear, like “boredom” in the future.
If you want a very in depth explantion of the “Tithonus error” go to Longevity Meme or shorter at Fight Aging
