None of us chose to be born, so why is everyone always trying to choose NOT to die? Science seems obsessed with prolonging life, why? Who wants to live to be really old?
2007-09-21 03:58:44 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
People are afraid of the unknown, and what happens after death is uncertain, unless you know the truth of the gospel.
2007-09-21 04:04:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Science itself is not obsessed, but meeting a need as driven by those who so choose to pursue it.
Science is like any other enterprise. More money and resources will be placed on those things which interest the general public, as well as receive continual support from those who give funding.
Who wants to live to be really old? Those in power of course. But what is wrong with living until you are old if you do not feel it, think it, or even notice it? That is the goal with the anti-aging campaign.
2007-09-21 11:11:27 · answer #2 · answered by fierce beard 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
-"None of us chose to be born"-
Who knows? Maybe we just forgot ;]
-"so why is everyone always trying to choose NOT to die?"-
No, that's not true for everyone.
-"Science seems obsessed with prolonging life, why?"-
Hmm, partly maybe.. or so it appears.
-"Who wants to live to be really old?"-
Not me, actually I don't care much.
"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
2007-09-21 11:13:44 · answer #3 · answered by Shelly 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think theres is alot of people who do choose to die becuase lifes not what they expected and full of pain i guess were just thrown into existence and this world i think its pretty selfish really if some people dont want to be here. i think alot of old people really dont want to live any longer i dont know why people would prolong life unless you could stay forever young. Theres is a new scientific search for immortality by a certain gerontologist called Aubrey de Grey look him up
2007-09-21 11:16:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
None of us chose to be born. None of us chose to dislike vegetables. None of us chose to learn our first language. None of us will choose to die.
I think we spend our entire lives just trying to acquire the right to CHOOSE to do something.
Of course, living longer, prolonging the final non-choice that is death, not only promotes out choiceful wills, but it also provides more time for more opportuinities to choose how we live within this life which we did not choose to live.
2007-09-21 11:08:45 · answer #5 · answered by Deino 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of that question revolves around 'quality of life'. It doesn't matter how old (or young) you are. As long as you're healthy and reasonably happy (and that, of course, varies with the individual) you probably want to keep on enjoying life. But if I was in a hospital and hooked up to a bunch of tubes and machines to keep me alive (even 'tho everybody agreed I'd never recover), I'd sure as hell appreciate somebody pulling the plug. A friend of mine (40 some years ago) lost both legs and most of an arm to a landmine in 'Nam. He asked, and I pulled the pin on a grenade (which he couldn't have done with only one hand) and I put it in his good hand. He gave it a couple of minutes and then used it for a pillow. His choice. And I was glad that I was there to help him. I like to think he'd have done the same for me if our positions had been reversed.
Doug
2007-09-21 11:21:30 · answer #6 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I didn't choose to be born, but I'm happy that I was. I'd like to live to be pretty old. I'm 54 and I'm still enjoying life. Some people seem to believe that life is over if you're not 25 and built like a stick. Not me. I have SO much to live for. I want to see my sons have a happy life. I want to see my grandchildren grow up. They are so much fun to spend time with. My husband and I enjoy going places and doing things together that we could not afford to do when our children were young. I have a blast with my family and my church family. I have a nephew in a Christian rock band and I love to go hear them play. Life can be great if you want it to be, no matter your age.
2007-09-21 11:11:11 · answer #7 · answered by Teresa 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I want to be really really old so I can see my great great grandchildren, and have no seex, and drink beer......No really.......I think its a conspiracy to prolonge life so people can work forever for ever cheaper wages.....Think about it for a second....people work for 50 years to enjoy 5 and the other five is in the pain of dying........does this sound a little backwards to anyone else but me? I want to enjoy my whole life, not spending it doing a blue or white collared job....while I'm young too.....
2007-09-21 11:06:31 · answer #8 · answered by Sandy B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that is because most people are afraid of death because it's truely unknown. Plus most people feel like they still want to do so much with their lives even at an older age.
The people who are ready for death have lived the life they wanted and they are comfortable with where they are going.
2007-09-21 11:11:14 · answer #9 · answered by emerald_wang85 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
not everyone! some people try to prolong their life to expand their happines in the world and also because they dont have any idea what the afterlife world would be. People tends do not like uncertainty like that.
2007-09-21 11:05:40 · answer #10 · answered by samaranch 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The older we get the more we learn.
The more we learn the wiser we become and the more we realise how much more there is to learn and how much we are yet to experience.
The more we realise how much there is out there and how little of it we have seem the more we want to do it.
These things we want to do take time and the older we get the less time we have.
Therefore we want more time to learn, to experience, to discover.
The obsession with prolonging life revolves around this want and need for more.
2007-09-21 12:57:35 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋