There are dozens of life-extension organisations working towards the abolition of death. The aim is to make death an uncommon and unusual event. In the future if death would ever occur it would even make the main news story.
As people age, more and more people tend to follow the obits in the local newspapers. With age, death approaches at an unprecedented pace and we tend to be highly interested in knowing which of our friend recently deceased. However, this used not to be the case, for these same fellows when they were young. The outlook on life was rather of a pacific sense of immortality. Now everything has changed from those days.
What made these fellows change their attitude away from immortality and toward mortality? It is death. The gloomy certainty of death has gradually consumed the lives of relatives, friends and neighbours through health deterioration or aging. So with time, death has become apparently fate and an accepted phenomenon.
There isn’t really any sense of resistance; our sense of immortality seems to fade with years of ‘realistic’ up growing. Why are we ready to forego a bright future while something can still be done? While being appeased with death from aging, our ostensible response is usually “I’ll be going to a better place”. People seem to have strong hope in an afterlife but not to overcome death. Why is this so? Concentrated effort in medical research can help in reversing aging.
People accept death rather than believe in an afterlife. If there would be a total belief in the afterlife than thousands of people would willingly go through ‘euthanasia’ to reach this ‘better place’. I’m currently not claiming that the ‘better place’ doesn’t exist rather that I am uncertain about it.
Medical research and life-extension foundation are proposing the opportunity to live actively as long as possible in this imperfect world. So time can become a companion for success rather than a foe of death. The longer we live, the wiser can we become. This accumulating stock of knowledge can push aging research further and the aging process might even become reversible. Definitely, concrete progress will only triumph with the support of the mass.
It is a mere fact that life shouldn’t be depressing but having in mind a terminal state of death makes us crawl down to a condition of despair. Everything can change through global support enforcing new advancement in medical science. There are no guarantees of complete age reversal but there is at least hope.
The main engine towards surpassing the game of death is creativity. The least we can expect is that our life will be extended while the best we can wait for is an indefinite lifespan. So engaging ourselves in a collective path towards immortality can make a huge change in progress. It will promote action and resources to be assimilated for the purpose of over-riding death as a final penalty to life.
Source: Maximum Life Foundation, originally written by David Kekich
Wed, Sep 8, 2010
Health And Aging