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[tagryn]

Have been contributing a fair amount to this thread on extension of life/immortality treatments over at Elf's LJ.

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[donnafair.livejournal.com]

You'll never get anywhere aruging with people who so obviously believe that immortality is a great benefit to mankind. It's that *they* want to live forever.It's a perfectly understandable impulse to want to know the future and see life continue. Though I wonder how many who are making the argument have children to carry on? And has anyone mentioned what happens if mankind is immortal to the idea of childbirth? We are called to procreate because *that* is our immortality.

I found an interesting quote from Thomas Edison on his deathbed. You know, the guy they'd want to keep going because he was a great man and he could keep on inventing. I wonder if he would feel the same way?
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Thomas Edison died At 9 P.M. On Oct. 18th, 1931 in New Jersey. He was 84 years of age. Shortly before passing away, he awoke from a coma and quietly whispered to his very religious and faithful wife Mina, who had been keeping a vigil all night by his side: "It is very beautiful over there..."
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