> If that's your position, I respect that. I'll go on living and you can die, even right now if you want to.
> Oh no no no, I don't want to die right now. I just want at some future moment to have died and be dead and have checked off every one of life's achievements, including death.
And it is at this point where I cannot continue this sarcastical mock-conversation -- it gets too surreal for me. As horrible as it sounds, at least the people who don't want to live past 80 will gradually die off and leave the rest of us to live.
> Every person must die!
> But I don't want to die.
> But thou must!
> If that's your position, I respect that. I'll go on living and you can die, even right now if you want to.
> Oh no no no, I don't want to die right now. I just want at some future moment to have died and be dead and have checked off every one of life's achievements, including death.
And it is at this point where I cannot continue this sarcastical mock-conversation -- it gets too surreal for me. As horrible as it sounds, at least the people who don't want to live past 80 will gradually die off and leave the rest of us to live.