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Afterlife, in my mind, is pretty much nothing. This is it. This is what we get, for me. ”
Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption. ”
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. ”
I haven't read Ibsen, Shaw, Shakespeare - except 'The Merchant of Venice' in ninth grade. I'm not familiar with 'Death of a Salesman.' I haven't read Tennessee Williams. ”
In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely. ”
What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to. ”
The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole. ”
Every day, hundreds of millions of people stab themselves, bleed, and then offer, like a sacrifice, to the glucose monitor they're carrying with them. It's such a bad user interface that even though in the medium-term it's life or death for these people, hundreds of millions of people don't engage in this user interface. ”
Wouldn't it be awesome if we had a jetpack that wasn't a death trap? The problem is that it is going to be so power inefficient. I just couldn't live with that... it would be as loud as a motorcycle. ”
If I love something, I wear it to death! ”