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Originally Posted by JimOfferman  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.
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Opposite is true, people who climbed Mount Everest and had gone into space wanted to be immortalized, just like poets, sculptors.. they knew they could not live long but their names and legends about them would last for millenia.
People who had accepted some kind of death are actually mediocre people who don't know what to do with them selves. For example the basic point of different yoga teachings (raja, kryia, kundalini) is actually immortality, transcendence, continual consciousness... Da Vinci also wanted to be immortal in some part of his life, and he achieved it! The notion of that incarnation as Leonardo DaVinci will be alive for thousands and thousands of years. All advanced human beings want to have continuation of conscious life, there is ALWAYS something new to add to the existing conscious reality.