This book looks like it takes an interesting and needed angle on this cause of unlimited lifespans.
The Least Worst Death: Essays in Bioethics on the End of Life
http://www.amazon.co...26479723&sr=8-3
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0 downloadsThere is a strong tradition of sweeping death under the rug, hiding the dying. There is not much film about it, not many pictures or stories portraying it. Elderly people are coached on how to die. People dont talk about it with them, they dont want to remind them and think about it. They want to forget about it and pretend for the most part that it isnt happening. They go headstone shopping as a part of their errands schedule. They are taught how to accept it, shown how to get through it, encouraged not to get worked up about it and not let it get to them.
I can understand why they do that of course, to a point. In a world where dying of disease and aging to death is absolutely inevitable that MIGHT, I emphasize might there, make sense. It doesnt now, the ingredients for change are here. It is no longer questionable if there is a way to fight it or not. We now have to pull back that curtain on death and bring that open wound out into the air and the light, let it sting, make it available in all of its horrors and allow it to help drive us to make that change, allow it to help keep our natural inclinations toward indifference at bay.
Edited by brokenportal, 13 January 2012 - 11:16 PM.
