I've seen vampire movies where they hate the immortality thing

New Science of Death

Fascinating read if you have 15 minutes. Though, the one part, that was a little off-topic to the gist of the article, had me floored:

It is no longer unheard of for people to be revived even six hours after being declared clinically dead. In 2011, Japanese doctors reported the case of a young woman who was found in a forest one morning after an overdose stopped her heart the previous night; using advanced technology to circulate blood and oxygen through her body, the doctors were able to revive her more than six hours later, and she was able to walk out of the hospital after three weeks of care. In 2019, a British woman named Audrey Schoeman who was caught in a snowstorm spent six hours in cardiac arrest before doctors brought her back to life with no evident brain damage.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/02/new-science-of-death-brain-activity-consciousness-near-death-experience

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Kind of a tangent to this discussion of death - I listened to an interview with

Apr 4, 2024, 9:32 AM

Michio Kaku (Theoretical Physicist, futurist) talking about the advent of quantum computers. He discussed numerous ways that quantum computing will change medicine with even the possibility of solving all the interrelated human biological aspects to aging. In essence, he believes that quantum computing could give us (humans) the ability to achieve a form of immortality from the aging process.

As much as most people are fearful of death (yes - even the most pious religious people can have a fear of death), I personally find the idea of human immortality absolutely dreadful. Ignoring the tangential issues of human immortality (overpopulation, negative affects on human progress etc...) death gives us all a certain finality to our human existence. It allows us to know that we have a limited time to experience the human condition and in that aspect gives purpose, meaning and a value to human life.

If every human were to have immortality on this earth (with death only resulting from accidents or being killed) I think life's value and purpose would eventually lose most, if not all, of it's meaning and at some point become boring. Ultimately I believe the current "all humans will experience death" is a good thing and is actually necessary for the human species to progress to even greater achievement.

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I think I'm thinking of "The Good Place" for his, but it was one of the most

New Science of Death

When the boss says 'Quittin TIME!' work is done.***

Kind of a tangent to this discussion of death - I listened to an interview with

I agree. Wasn't there a Greek myth of a woman who was granted

I think I'm thinking of "The Good Place" for his, but it was one of the most

Yeah was thinking same. You know the Clemson tie-in with that show right?***

his episode on JRE was great

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