A) I would get bored with life…. My answer to this is two fold and is answered with a question “why arnt you bored now?” and the same answer answers their statement “well there are still things I haven’t done and want to do/build/create ect. there will always be another level. and given the technology that would eventually advance us into new forms as well. I imagine one day my brain could be placed in a vessel that would allow me to have a custom designed body to enjoy flight or to feel the sands of mars between my toes. And that doesn’t even include the advancments in memory and cognitive abilitys.. so no Its going to take a very long time for me or anyone to get bored. Playstation 400 anyone?

B)”Its selfish to want more life than it is natural to have”. To this I simply ask please define a “natural” lifespan. If you were to go back 500 years or as little as 200 and tell people then that people of this age live well into their 80’s and 90’s they too would screech about how unnatural and demonic it was to extend life to those ages. it is funny how the idea of a “natural” lifespan shifts as medical technology does. But as to the question of “selfish” itself, that is a blanket statement. If you could give Davinci or Mozart or any person who wanted to bring wonder and beauty to this world an extended lifespan, would you?. and if they remained creators and builders and healers would you “pull the plug” because it was selfish?

C)”life has no meaning without death” This is where the rubber meets the road. Define your life and your reason for doing things because you are going to die. That the push to do the things you did was so someone might remember you. Ultimately this is a hollow ideal and defining the meaning of your exsistance by these terms means you are no better than any animal that chooses to procreate to continue the gene pool. It means we are no better than animals in our desire to move forward. That death looms as a specter to prod us and we cannot move forward on our own for the sake of becoming better or making this world as close to a heaven as we can.

Lastly I will touch one other “practical” reason given ” we will overpopulate the earth and kill it ”

This is a hollow warning since it is going to happen anyways. we had better stop breeding like rabbits and consider other places to live. With the medical technology of today. if we froze it in place with no more advancements ever again, it is going to happen anyways, so the big social change for us a human beings is coming one way or another.

Just something to counter the sacred deathist culture we have

Lionel

Transhumanist

Keeme

I was brought up to having to share with my brother, and that policy has worked pretty good when applied to my adult life, too: I don’t feel I am owed a larger piece of life than what will come my way naturally…

az