Well, you could go out happy knowing that you got revenge?
Yes, I wish I had more time, but if we did not have this short of a life then it would be both good and bad, think, you have so much time, like 1000 years, the good is that you can do everything you want, but what happens once you run out of things to do? It's just like going to bed at night, you wish you had more time, but when you run out of things to do, you go to sleep. See what I mean?
Hope I'm not that bad at explaining my point...
I understand, but I don't believe that's an issue. Something I read ten years ago would be enjoyable for me to read again, because our memories of things fade with time. What I would like is for people to have a choice. If you don't want to live, by all means, don't live. If you want to live a trillion years, then isn't it much better for you to choose when to end it, rather than nature? Maybe you want to live for 200 years. Or 100. Maybe you want to live to 70 but cancer is going to take you at 60. Natural death is nothing but a horrible thing that we have very little choice in.
If someone truly accepts the void at 75, then they may as well choose to die at that age, rather than linger on. Why not just die at 75 before 80? Why do so many people linger on to the bitter, painful end? I think the reason is clear, they are not yet ready to die, they look for more time, even in the presence of pain and suffering. Imagine then that we eliminated the degradation of the body and mind. Imagine that the world lives in peace and you have many things to do, and you are able to live as long as you want, without the pain of cancer or heart attacks or arthritis. But the government mandates you die at age 100, whether you want to live longer or not. Wouldn't you see something wrong in that? I see nature as inherently wrong, not that it is sentient or capable of maliciousness, just that by its very nature, it wrongs our species daily. Don't you hope for awful genetic diseases to be gone? Don't people want cancer to be cured? Don't people want better skin as they age? These are all
extremely popular positions. How then is the forced death nature imposes on us any less of something to struggle against?
Revenge isn't something that would make me happy. It might satiate a burning rage, but certainly never bring me happiness.