Mortality and Immortality
vsauce - should I die?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRxI0DaQrag
This is such a great video!
There are 3 parts in this video:
1
People are shown different levels of crimes and asked what level of punishment the criminals should receive. Through the hall way to the task room, the experiment group would see a few posters about human mortality such as signs of heart attacks, planning your own funerals, and are even given the questionnaires asking how they feel about their own mortality and how they think the physical process would be. Where as the control group would have none of them.
The two groups averagely give respond similarly to those crimes, but the experiment group (aka the mortality salient group) averagely took 3 more mins to answer each quiz, which means they took more effort into trying to do the right thing.
2
Caitlin the mortician says ppl hv all kinds of defense mechanism against death. The obvious ones are having children, writing book, creating tv shows, leaving some legacy etc. The insidious ones are bringing up wars to take over other countries, being rich and being okay with other ppl being poor, they can trick themselves into believing 'I can outrun death because I have this money or power.'
m: "how would you characterize the western relationship to death?"
Caitlin compares 2 versions.
The self-sufficient one is say in the US 150yrs ago, when a husband died, the wife washes his body, get a neighbour to make a wooden coffin, and carry the coffin to the grave dug.
Whereas around the turn of the 20th century, there are tons of layers of denials around death, ex hospitals rise, ppl don't die at home, and they get sent to funeral homes (where the body in the coffin is displayed for relatives to surround), which means death is outsourced. Moreover, the slaughterhouses are put in more hidden areas, instead of somewhere ppl can easily see everyday, which is one of the cases that food production is outsourced too.
The movement towards accepting death involves true self-awareness about where you are hiding the fears of death.
If you die, you can no longer do what you like. But the reason you do what you like is that you will die. This is your one chance.
C: "The passion and the realness to life comes from an ending." The pursuit of 'I will stay alive till I upload my brain into the cloud' is unhealthy, and it's not environmentally sensible.
3
Alcor, like a time-travelling ambulance, is a company that stores the 'clinically dead' body (they call them patients) including the memories until the technology in the future can revive them. They put the body in the operation that artificially keep the organs and fluid (replacing blood) running, and somehow keep it cold but not freezing (aka vitrification process) so the soft tissues don't get damaged, these are called cryo-preserved specimens. Nowadays there are already many human organisms being cry-preserved out there.
Options are, whole body or neuro (cephalon aka head, or stasis that the body doesn't function?). Those who keep whole body are just for emotional purpose, whereas the neuros will go to organ transplant solution. (the operating field looks very sci-fi)
What's interesting is Max the CEO believes that human body shouldn't decline as the wisdom and maturity of the mind keep rising, can have more foresight with longer planning horizon. A world of ultra-mature ppl is a better world.
max: "life gets more meaning the longer you live, because you can build on what you've done before. So if anything, it increases the meaningfulness of life."
My thought: they both sound so right and convincing, because they are good at selling their products. But it's good that people are having more and more choices over time. What I'm concerned more is still the environment. But hey, would you worry there are no future tax-payers if ppl can just live forever? And, Alcor is restoring the neuro from an extremely aged body, would the condition of that neuro be as good as when it was in a healthy body?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRxI0DaQrag
This is such a great video!
There are 3 parts in this video:
1
People are shown different levels of crimes and asked what level of punishment the criminals should receive. Through the hall way to the task room, the experiment group would see a few posters about human mortality such as signs of heart attacks, planning your own funerals, and are even given the questionnaires asking how they feel about their own mortality and how they think the physical process would be. Where as the control group would have none of them.
The two groups averagely give respond similarly to those crimes, but the experiment group (aka the mortality salient group) averagely took 3 more mins to answer each quiz, which means they took more effort into trying to do the right thing.
2
Caitlin the mortician says ppl hv all kinds of defense mechanism against death. The obvious ones are having children, writing book, creating tv shows, leaving some legacy etc. The insidious ones are bringing up wars to take over other countries, being rich and being okay with other ppl being poor, they can trick themselves into believing 'I can outrun death because I have this money or power.'
m: "how would you characterize the western relationship to death?"
Caitlin compares 2 versions.
The self-sufficient one is say in the US 150yrs ago, when a husband died, the wife washes his body, get a neighbour to make a wooden coffin, and carry the coffin to the grave dug.
Whereas around the turn of the 20th century, there are tons of layers of denials around death, ex hospitals rise, ppl don't die at home, and they get sent to funeral homes (where the body in the coffin is displayed for relatives to surround), which means death is outsourced. Moreover, the slaughterhouses are put in more hidden areas, instead of somewhere ppl can easily see everyday, which is one of the cases that food production is outsourced too.
The movement towards accepting death involves true self-awareness about where you are hiding the fears of death.
If you die, you can no longer do what you like. But the reason you do what you like is that you will die. This is your one chance.
C: "The passion and the realness to life comes from an ending." The pursuit of 'I will stay alive till I upload my brain into the cloud' is unhealthy, and it's not environmentally sensible.
3
Alcor, like a time-travelling ambulance, is a company that stores the 'clinically dead' body (they call them patients) including the memories until the technology in the future can revive them. They put the body in the operation that artificially keep the organs and fluid (replacing blood) running, and somehow keep it cold but not freezing (aka vitrification process) so the soft tissues don't get damaged, these are called cryo-preserved specimens. Nowadays there are already many human organisms being cry-preserved out there.
Options are, whole body or neuro (cephalon aka head, or stasis that the body doesn't function?). Those who keep whole body are just for emotional purpose, whereas the neuros will go to organ transplant solution. (the operating field looks very sci-fi)
What's interesting is Max the CEO believes that human body shouldn't decline as the wisdom and maturity of the mind keep rising, can have more foresight with longer planning horizon. A world of ultra-mature ppl is a better world.
max: "life gets more meaning the longer you live, because you can build on what you've done before. So if anything, it increases the meaningfulness of life."
My thought: they both sound so right and convincing, because they are good at selling their products. But it's good that people are having more and more choices over time. What I'm concerned more is still the environment. But hey, would you worry there are no future tax-payers if ppl can just live forever? And, Alcor is restoring the neuro from an extremely aged body, would the condition of that neuro be as good as when it was in a healthy body?
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