6/11/2003: Tombstone art

[kisrael]

the anticipation of death should be something that every one should have thought about before hitting that mid-life crisis.

Absolutely agreed: I've written a webpage meant to help people come to terms with it:
<a href="http://kisrael.com/mortal/">Dealing With Mortality: A Skeptic's Guide</a>

And I hate to say it, but I think people who expect to live forever via technology are extremely over optimistic. Not only do we have a host of things to learn about the aging process of the body, but we'd have to solve EVERY other humanity killing problem out there, from supervolcanoes to new superviruses to the magnetic field flipping; even if we get through all of that, there's still the heatdeath of the universe...suddenly, EVERY longterm problem humanity faces becomes YOUR problem.