joedad

Maybe right off the bat you've created a false dichotomy by recognizing life and death as mutually exclusive. Sound too weird?

Personally I do not accept reincarnation or belief in an afterlife. But that does not mean that an "I" cannot exist in a couple thousand years, read about another "I" having written today, and begin to intensely identify with that long "dead" person. In a very real way, the long "dead" person then lives on. A succession of lives then becomes a single life.

And obviously, it is not impossible for an "I" today to foresee that "I" in the future with some hope that the future will have turned out somehow better due to today's actions.

Just another angle.

joe

Ryanfire

Think of life like a game of hockey.

All the players on the ice, passionate about the game they play, enjoying themselves, but there is time limit, 60 minutes to play the game, then it is done(death).

Is there anything wrong with changing the time limit?

Perhaps most of the players would get tired of playing, but then there are some who are so passionate they could play indefinately.

The goals have to be made fast within 60 minutes. Perhaps we don't score many goals(or achieve them) within such time. So by prolonging the game(life), we can score(achieve) many more goals.

A passion for life exists within all of us, some of us more than others.

emphryio

Yes, it occurred to me that people always talk of death as inevitable when actually it may not have to be that way. And that furthermore, if we were all a bit more rational, all of humanity's main goal would be to defeat death.

I think it is possible that someday there will be no death. A day in the future when our present life will be considered with incredulity and considered a myth. Or people will look back on the time of death with absolute horror. Horror all the far greater considering our resigned acceptance of it and how little effort we put forth to do something about it.

I guess maybe death is the ultimate tradition.