[extropy-chat] more great reasons to be dead

[The Avantguardian]

--- scerir <scerir at libero.it> wrote:

> > After all, well-adjusted people 
> > tend to develop a serene acceptance 
> > of finitude.
> 
> It seems that Seneca gave
> a different, maybe deeper,
> definition of death, a definition
> which could explain the (supposed)
> serene acceptance.
> 
> [Letters to Lucilius, 1)
> 'For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; 
> the major portion of death has already passed. 
> Whatever years be behind us are in death's hands.'

Yes, I do think Seneca was deeper if less lyrical. I,
however think serene acceptance of death comes from
the realization that the oblivion to which one goes
can be no worse than the oblivion from which one came.
Remember back to before memory and that is death. 

The Avantguardian 
is 
Stuart LaForge
alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu

"The surest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that they haven't attempted to contact us." 
-Bill Watterson


		
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