Do you remember when was the first time you have learned that you are going to die? Have you ever asked your parents: "Will my life come to the end eventually?", expecting from your ever-protecting, omnipotent and all-knowing mother and father to come up with the solution to a problem than no matter how bright your future looked (and it was the brightest in their description) there was a gloomy and dark cloud over it. "It is so far away my child...". "Yeah, right ...so far...but give me something more soothing. Like scientific research for example.
Can you picture it? That dark void that steals every photon of light and turns down the volume of life music on mute in an instant. And as quickly as you think petrifies your touch and ices you feel. The last to die is that smell of death. A lump of void echo...this what you turn into. Who could not love this...and after a meaningful life...final rest...not my cup of tea. And this in best of possible outcomes (less painful) and as much likely as your parents ideas about your schooling, happy marriage and prosperous life.
And yet, with so unbearable lightness the even your parents didn't protest the grim future (this was to be expected from them ..right?) we embrace this outcome as something normal. Normal?? Are you fucking out of your mind??? What would humanity do if we faced a meteor coming down on us in 80 years. Would we say: "OK, we've lived prosperous life...all things come to an end eventually". I bet this would produce mass hysteria of epic proportions and people would be in the streets toppling governments to do something to save their souls.
Yet we accept individual endings like a cows in a slaughterhouse bending their head down for a pneumatic gun shot just because our ending clocks are of out of sync. Would we make a fuss out of it if we had a list in advance? "It's not just random", people would say. "Someone is slaying our citizens."
What if probability of the cause matters? Do you protest something that will less likely kill you and stay passive on something that has 30% probability to be a cause of your death. Do you fear terrorists or cancer? How much the governments are spending on national security versus health research?
I don't accept BS this would overpopulate earth...this would benefit only the chosen...this would be the rule of the old...we couldn't afford more children. Why do we try to cure people at all? Death is inherent to survival? I don't think so. This is the frontier to conquer and prevail our human way.
140 years from now every living soul on earth will be dead. Does a fact that everyone will face death at their own time make this fact less gruesome. What if some other cause would wipe entire population? Would you be less complacent? Would you say it doesn't matter, some have outlived them? Would you make and exception as far as your loving child is concerned? (once he will be an old man dying in pain all pissed and not remembering you) Save yourself - there are people that care about you!
We Citizens of the World, Children of Humanity, Involuntary Mortals, we protest the death to rule our world and ask to unite and fight with the greatest weapons we have --our creative mind --against the only common enemy we all have.
I have done my part and now you do yours. Spread the word.