Let's do everything for the first time.
So I got done with everything at 7 and thought I'd take a short nap before doing more work. I woke up several times but kept going back down and before I knew it, it was 10. It was wonderful, but I had a bizarre dream: I was looking at tables documenting how long it took corpses to rot all the way down to the bone [which happens regardless of whether you're embalmed or not]. I couldn't actually read the charts, of course, but the idea was that everything's always decayed in 28.2 years. Interesting.
I'm okay with my decay.
I want an honest job at one of your factories, please.
I had some people over and I bought some Diet Pepsi. They didn't drink the Diet Pepsi. What am I going to do with Diet Pepsi?
What I'm not going to do with it: use it to help me stay up and do complex analysis.
For the previous: no response, but I apologized. For the tone, not the content. I stand by the content.
Immortality Machines: supposing it were possible, through extremely invasive medical techniques, to prolong conscious life indefinitely [barring suicide and sudden violent death] and the use of this technology were made mandatory by law. Would you be a felon and die illicitly?
NOTE: no euthanasia, we're talking natural death.
posted by Mr. G. Z. T. @ 17.10.05
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Of course.
I think that what is more impressive is that people (including myself) actually drank the RC Cola.
Interesting question. I think that the data given aren't sufficient to decide whether- and under what circumstances- it would be morally obligatory (rather than just morally licit) to refuse such treatments.
Clearly, a law mandating such treatment would be wrong, and would show as much of a warped societal understanding of life and death as do our current laws.
In what context was the question asked?
Ja, you really do need to specify what is being done. I think it can be assumed that, if they're going to market it as living forever, pretty much everything biological will eventually have to go or be replaced [let's assume the brain stays to avoid obvious difficulties]. For the sake of argument, we'll say that it doesn't happen until things start failing and the procedures will be painless.
Well, the question wasn't asked, a transhumanist asserted, when I mentioned I'd be dead in the next century, that death would be obsolete by then. I said poppycock, I'll die and be buried, and he said, no, you won't, we'll make it illegal. I thought it'd be an interesting question.
What's good enough for other folks ain't good enough for me and my RC.
Naw, I think that if the transhumanists get into power, we untermenschen theists will still be allowed (or "allowed") to die.
And RC Cola is awesome. I miss it sometimes here in California.
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