Life and death
From a young age it is instilled in us that we should fear death. Its something that comes to all of us. Every living organism will at some point experience death. Its the one thing that is common among us all regardless of race, religion, gender, age or orientation. Then why as a society do we find the idea of death abhorrent? This one aspects binds us all together, touching all, yet it is not an easy subject to broach. Talking about your own mortality is considered morbid. Yet the truth remains. We do all age and die. Should we fear death and actively repel it? Or embrace it and take the Freudian approach that death is 'The aim of life?' If technology ever advanced so far as to allow to create a way of prolonging life, would you really want to? If endless life was a possibility would we ever be able to truly live? In this theoretical world, where death is prolonged and life everlasting, how do we experience ageing? Biologically speaking you cannot stop the natural ageing process. Even the Greek God Zeus could not stop the ageing process. I am assuming in this theoretical world that life would be prolonged but the ageing process would continue its natural course, which begs the question, how much can a person age, without dying, and yet still experience the things they want to live for? Without the idea of death, ageing is a burden. An inevitable process that nothing and no one can stop, so without the idea of death, where would this process end? How much can a persons body and mind age yet never yield to death? We may never know, even with technological advances we may never be able to find out a way to prolong life and live forever. Even if we could, I really wouldn't want to!
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