Rainn Wilson's Soul Pancake has a long playlist of videos featuring dying people.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzvRx_johoA8ITQgxBpeJ...
At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to pass on
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Re: At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to pass on
#52I wish more people would learn about cryonics. It's either 0 or something above zero probability.
I have not seen a reason to think cryonics will work at all. Even if we actually do find a way to restore frozen near-death people to life, you'd better write a heck of a pitch as to why future humans should spend resources on reviving and healing you. Never mind all the resources being spent on keeping you properly frozen all that time. That's all assuming the company running your freezer doesn't just go belly-up af…
Why would they not want to revive you? How awesome would it be, if we could revive someone who lived around the year 1500, 1000 or even 0? I expect people in the year 3000 (if there are still people around and if they have it relatively good) would see it equally when looking to the year 2000.
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#53Having just turned 31 this hits home. I appreciate the positivity he could find in the twilight of his days. I can't help but feel I may lack the courage to face death the same way. His focus on gratitude really does seem to match what I understand to be the best way to find joy in the often bleak life we find ourselves in. There is almost always someone or something to appreciate in our lives.
How do you know he is not just lying and saying it for the clicks? It could be all appearance.
Listen, you want to be like him, it is easy. Just be like Christ or Buddha or Lao Tzu. Liberate yourself from the attachments of the world. That is the only thing death forces us to face, the ultimate attachment, the attachment we have with our body/self/ego.
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#54Re: At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to pass on
#55I wish more people would learn about cryonics. It's either 0 or something above zero probability.
What, risk waking up to be transported to a "re-education" facility because what you did (or believed) in the past is no longer acceptable/legal to the current Maoist/Rightwing/Religious/Populist nut jobs in charge. Wake up to find the planet inundated and starving. Wake up to find that every single person you loved is now dead ... seems a bit of a hard sell.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
What you do not have you cannot become attached to. You can still have something and not be attached to it. That is Buddhism/Daoism in a nutshell.
Did you note that the OP said it is a well known psychological phenomenon and not some utopian enlightened state that most of us can only aspire to attain? And fwiw, Schopenhauer knew about Buddhism very well and talks about it in length in his essays on pessimism. What he means by attachment here is in fact, the Buddhist equivalent of craving. What you own can add to your vanity, but it is what you do not have or ar…
You seem confused. The "utopian enlightened state" as you weirdly mischaracterize it is about overcoming the well known psychological phenomenon.
You wouldn't call every non-instinctive skill (from reading to playing piano to shooting a basketball) that you learn in life a "utopian enlightened state", would you?
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have not seen a reason to think cryonics will work at all. Even if we actually do find a way to restore frozen near-death people to life, you'd better write a heck of a pitch as to why future humans should spend resources on reviving and healing you. Never mind all the resources being spent on keeping you properly frozen all that time. That's all assuming the company running your freezer doesn't just go belly-up af…
They should revive you because you paid for it.
Ahh, the afterlife, now available by payment plan, and much easier than that Kingdom-of-God stuff....
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#58Re: At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to pass on
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
So if I never loose my money it is worthless! Ha! Sorry, no. It is our attachment to things that determine their worth.
Down voting Buddhism! Ha! Maybe if I wore my Ochre robe you would all upvote me!
Your rude attitude and misrepresentation of the ideas you are trying to express is why you are having trouble conversing here today.
Re: At 31, I have just weeks to live. Here's what I want to pass on
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you note that the OP said it is a well known psychological phenomenon and not some utopian enlightened state that most of us can only aspire to attain? And fwiw, Schopenhauer knew about Buddhism very well and talks about it in length in his essays on pessimism. What he means by attachment here is in fact, the Buddhist equivalent of craving. What you own can add to your vanity, but it is what you do not have or ar…
You seem confused. The "utopian enlightened state" as you weirdly mischaracterize it is about overcoming the well known psychological phenomenon. You wouldn't call every non-instinctive skill (from reading to playing piano to shooting a basketball) that you learn in life a "utopian enlightened state", would you?
It is indeed a way to overcome the "well known psychological phenomenon", and also I wouldn't call reading or playing piano as non-instinctive or for that matter a "utopian enlightened state". My retort was more towards the mischaracterization of a pithy quote.