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Protective death

By Sam Zanahar (2010)

Most people think that nature is cruel in putting our individual lives to death.

But people have the wrong idea why this is benevolent and necessary.

It is benevolent and necessary because it naturally limits suffering.

Just consider scenarios in which death is artificially prevented, such as in a hospital intensive care settings.

Imagine yourself in an operating room, being completely paralysed by muscle relaxants. But imagine yourself as the victim of incomplete sedation. You are aware of all the pain inflicted on you, you feel every cut. You want to cry but can't.And you do not die because you are artificially respirated, and your blood is circulated by an ekectric pump. Would it not just be better to die within minutes as it is the schedule of nature?

Or imagine yourself as a victim in a motorcycle crash. You are totally paralysed but your mind is sharp as ever. You are diagnosed as being in a vegetative state, and kept alive artificially for decades through intravenous feeding.

You have all the pain nature has enabled you to feel. But where is the joy?

This is why I think of death as protective death. It shields me from never ending suffering.

When it's too much, it must be over.

Until then, the only aspect of life worth living for is optimal sexual experience. Because this is what I want to ensure, I would spend my last money on tongkat ali, and this is why I canceled my health insurance. If nobody pays for my life extension in pain, then hospitals will at least think twice before spending on. (flo*r)

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