[ExI] FW: Rube opinion re transhumanism

[William Flynn Wallace]

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> 'Blessed to die?' What exactly is being blessed to die?
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​In my book I imagine that people will live hundreds of years.  In that
time one accumulates memories by the ton.  Included are those of loved ones
who died and other very sad events.  I imagine that people will be grateful
to leave life, weighted down as they are by memories.

Many people are blessed to die because of intractable pain.  Ben Franklin
was - he had bad gout and said that he hoped not to live much longer.

Now if some sci-fi​

​stories turn out to be true, then memories can be erased, giving relief.​
And if pain too is conquered, then there is no blessing.

>  ​wfw​
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