logicp_writings/covidism/Waking_Up_To_Death.md

Waking up to Death

Every child has to learn of the threat of their mortality. It is sobering and macabre, yet fantastic and enlightening. The scaling of time and attempting to conceive and visualize a lifetime. The consideration of representing a complete human lifetime as an eternity. We each get to have one infinity.

The contemplation and bewonderment brings about angst and dread. There is still so much to do and experience. The limitations imposed by being a child causes one to feel as though one cannot even yet begin to do that which must be done before one leaves the world, and this feels incredibly unfair. Unfair because of life, but perhaps because of the culture as well.

There is a spark of hope, however. As one attempts to conceive as to the experience of death, eprhaps as a visual description, one also begins to wonder if there might be more. Again, we always use one measuring stick. There is little one can do to evade that, but it is worse in childhood, as one feels a bit of FOMO about nearly anything.

But then, life expectancy has changed, and will get better.. we hope. With still an eternity to go, might that leav enough time for immortality to be discovered? Surely my experience is the only one I can experience, thus why shouldn't it go on indefinitely?

And what of the moral good of having life? If, indeed, it is better to be than not, to exist rather than not, then certainly it is tragic for life to end. Why allow for one to exist if they must be learn that they will stop existing, and thn for that to come to pass? Would that not call into question the very proposition of being? One could say that it's better for there to have been than not, even if it comes to an end, but one would need to assume they understand how to evaluate the perceptions and experiences of all others in order to make such a broad assertion. The fact is, no one knows the specific pain and sentiment of another.

Then, if our capabilities become great enough, that immortality becomes approachable and attemptable. Then it becomes immoral to not be offering it ot those that wish it, as even if not all can receive the enhancement, the degree to which it is used will dictate the rate at which it becomes universally viable and available.

Surely, if anyone wants it at all, it is to be used, and if almost no one wants it, its use and pursuit by a few carry to the culture a range of prevailing benefits which reduce particularly discernible instances of challenge.

But, now, how can it ever be created and put in a system of play? A system of play, which empowers and bings about new possibilities.