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I don't want to be a part of your death cult. Death should be a personal choice.


Everything is transitory and impermanent and nature needs a garbage collector.

I'd be surprised if people didn't have some sort of instinct to die under the right circumstances just like they have an instinct to procreate under the right circumstances.

In fact I'm positive of it because people kill themselves sometimes. What a strange phenomenon that is if you think about it. I've never understood it and can't imagine wanting to end my own life but apparently the tendency exists given the right set of circumstances.


https://www.howardbloom.net/howard-bloom-isolation-the-ultim...

He was Gladwell before people talked about Gladwell, so expect science-y conjecture, not science.


> I don't want to be a part of your death cult.

GP said nothing about how or when they wish everyone to die. It's as banal a statement as "I wish the earth will keep spinning". If GP is in a death cult, so are the overwhelming majority of known organisms.

> Death should be a personal choice.

This almost sounds like a satire of Western toxic individualism taken to a supernatural extreme. To me, the pursuit of immortality looks a lot more like a death cult than the acceptance of our finitude does.




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