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Originally Posted by williamhessian  in fact, the way i see it, anyone that doesnt want to live forever really doesnt understand and appreciate life. |
I'd be inclined to state the exact opposite. Those who want to live forever fail to appreciate life - all life, not just there own. I accept that my eventual demise is the price I pay for living. I understand that my life needs to end some day, so that there may be more life after I am gone.
(After all, if we'd all live forever, pretty soon we'd have to stop producing babies...)
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all beings have the desire to survive for as long as they possibly can. animals dont accept death, they run away from predators until their bodies are not fast enough to get away.
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That is not actually true. Animals will -by instinct- try to prevent the demise of their population as a whole. Mothers will fight to the death to ensure the survival of their children. In a herd, the old will sometimes surrender themselves to their predators so that the young may survive. Heck, males of the black widow spider even allow themselves to be eaten by their mate for the chance to produce some offspring...
I'd say most animals don't fear death.
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we may have the chance to change all of that, and actually survive death. Yet still, there are those of you who choose death over life. And use the words "accepting it" to describe it. I consider that "giving up".
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People who have accepted death do amazing things, like climb Mount Everest or venture into space. I have a hard time seeing that as giving up on life.
Jim.