Comments by "Daily Wire Third Stringer" (@DailyWireThirdStringer) on "" video.
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I suppose what is most frightening is the fear of dying prematurely. We all know what's coming, but most of us would like to put it off as long as possible. If an individual happens to live into his or her 90's today, he or she can at least be grateful that they have lived a full (and hopefully happy) life. If you spend the majority of your life contemplating mortality, and growing progressively more depressed by it, however, then death has won. The Grim Reaper doesn't "win" just by taking every old person. That's merely winning by default, like when your opponent forgot the rules of the game and you ended up "winning" because of it. If, on the other hand, a young person dies in a car accident, or from an injury, or because they were killed, or any other environmental factor they had no control over, that is counted as a victory for Death. It's exactly those kinds of situations we should seek to minimize so everyone at least has the chance to live to a ripe old age. Then the conversation is shifted towards remedies for medical conditions, which can often spell doom for the fairly young (think Chadwick Boseman). So in conjuction with maximizing personal safety all our efforts should be geared towards longevity by curing cancer, heart disease, stroke, Alzheimer's, and many other lethal conditions, and in recent years (at least in the U.S.) we have failed miserably (I think this is the third year in a row American life expectancy has actually FALLEN). And we must also consider that billions of people around the world are not nearly as lucky as we are (assuming you live in a developed country), and in many of them life expectancy doesn't exceed the 50's. That is abominable, and under no circumstances should that EVER be acceptable or tolerated by any of us. And looking into the future, some can clearly envision a time when humans will live to be hundreds or even thousands of years old (Aubrey De Grey and David Sinclair, to name a few). As for now, though, none of us should expect that breakthrough to occur in our lifetimes, and if it does happen many of us will no doubt be pleasantly surprised (I know I will be). Still, in the end, one will only be postponing the inevitable. And think how tragic it would be to die in an accident at the age of 67 when life expectancy is 400 --- clearly, we are not ready for that technology anyway. Not yet, at least. As far as what happens after we die, I envision one of two possibilities: either we return to the state we were in before we were born (none of us has any qualms about the time that passed before our existence, we shouldn't have any concerns about what happens after either), or we are reincarnated. If I were reincarnated as a cow, I would be p*ssed. But perhaps I'll be a human again, or a monkey, or a crawfish, or even an alien --- I don't know. Having gotten a general anesthesia once, though, I don't think nothingness is as scary as it sounds. After all, we only have this time on Earth to worry about what will happen to us, and once it's over (and there is nothing) we will no longer have the capacity to fret over such things. I would like to think it's like going to sleep for the last time, as if finally hopping in bed after a long day (except it's following a long life instead), and for that reason I would want to go out in the same fashion as when I got my wisdom teeth removed: via anesthetic-induced euthanasia. No pain (other than the needle going into your arm), and no worries either because you know when your time is coming --- removing half the reason for fear from the equation. No matter what happens, though, we were here to experience life in this universe, and that is more than the vast majority of possible human beings will ever have. Hopefully we have used this precious little time wisely and productively by pursuing the things that bring us happiness and are able to say with certainty that we left the world a better place than we found it.
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