Monday, October 19, 2015

Perhaps a new one to add to the list of inevitable things

There is said to be only two things that are inevitable:  death and taxes.  I propose a third thing to add to the list:  the unwillingness of societies to face the former.

The unwillingness to face death could lead to some rather bizarre outcomes.  People being born out of artificial wombs, for one.  What kind of society would that be when all the children are born out of machines?  Would they still be human as we have known it.  Likewise, when a society becomes filled with super old people who have had multiple rejuvenations, and having had these procedures, become rather freakish monsters.  You have odd people being born into a society of equally odd people.

I've thought about that latter possibility of rejuvenation a bit.  What happens to the body when you replace all of the internal organs?  Wouldn't that leave scars?  Wouldn't there be some after effect of having your old guts replaced with new ones?  And what about the brain?  Could you ever replace your brain?  What if you have a stroke even after all the internal organs have been replaced?  Is rejuvenation really practical?

Modern societies can't deal with death, so they try to change this fact, but will ultimately fail.  A prediction made that I will never be able to see because it is probably too far off into the future.


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