""At the top of the list, by a wide margin, is Death itself. Almost…

""At the top of the list, by a wide margin, is Death itself. Almost every child is horrified to discover that man is mortal. But most adults not only accept the inevitability of death, but even bizarrely rationalize death as a blessing in disguise. Why bizarre? Imagine humans were already immortal. If an inventor figured out how to make us mortal, who would see this "innovation" as anything other than a catastrophe?"

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