...but why? Dying is natural. Dying is normal. It's what's supposed to happen.
> I wanna know what happens
I've reproduced three times so I've ticked that particular biological box.
My OH is away this week. Our eldest cooked lunch on Tuesday when a meeting I was in ran over by an hour. I stumbled into the kitchen an hour later than planned to find the three of them eating what he'd prepared from what he'd found in the fridge and he'd made enough for me, too. They're pretty well set.
> I want to download my brain into a computer and see what humanity does over the next couple million years
I'm absolutely, completely OK with not doing that :)
I'm confident the next generation will figure it out, just like ours did, and the one before us, and so on...
It's also natural and normal to die in infancy, but we've solved that and I don't hear many complaints
Edit: looked it up, 49% is the estimated rate for hunter-gatherer societies and 48% until ~200 years ago (depending on the country, may also be ~60% or as "low" as ~40%). In 1950 it was still more than a quarter; only within living memory has it truly become abnormal to die soon after birth. https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality
This argument of what's "natural" holds so little water to me, I don't understand in what state of belief anyone even brings this up. Is this a religious thing? Why say "it's natural to die and therefore we should always continue to do so"? Arguments of overpopulation, psychological issues (and unknown unknowns), and other real problems, I can certainly understand, but "it's natural"? Please explain
...but why? Dying is natural. Dying is normal. It's what's supposed to happen.
> I wanna know what happens
I've reproduced three times so I've ticked that particular biological box.
My OH is away this week. Our eldest cooked lunch on Tuesday when a meeting I was in ran over by an hour. I stumbled into the kitchen an hour later than planned to find the three of them eating what he'd prepared from what he'd found in the fridge and he'd made enough for me, too. They're pretty well set.
> I want to download my brain into a computer and see what humanity does over the next couple million years
I'm absolutely, completely OK with not doing that :)
I'm confident the next generation will figure it out, just like ours did, and the one before us, and so on...