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That honesty about death causes individuals to hold life in much higher esteem. Thus, they more fully meet the long-range, self-responsibilities required to gain maximum happiness and fulfillment from their brief lives. Such adults do not squander their lives on the nothingness of mysticism, but instead put greater effort into self-development in order to become more productive, accomplished, and happy. And they take better psychological and physical care of themselves.
By contrast, repressing the fact of life's briefness and death's finality lets people evade the precious value of their lives and time. That evasion allows default on their prime responsibility to live intensely -- to achieve maximum self-development and growth.
Being fully conscious of life and death, people will value their lives beyond all else in the universe. And that valuation of human life as the supreme value rejects self-destructive acts of mysticism while establishing the psychological and motivational conditions needed to achieve commercial biological immortality.
On the other hand, repressing the fact of life's shortness and death's finality lets one rationalize laziness, mysticism, life-after-death myths, and all else that lead to unfulfilled or wasted lives. That repression also leaves one vulnerable to destructive exploitation by mystics, neocheaters, religions, and governments. But full awareness of one's fleeting, one-shot life span will counteract mysticism and laziness with a powerful appreciation of life. That, in turn, will stimulate the honest thinking and consistent efforts required to achieve prosperity and happiness. And achievement of happiness is the sole, moral purpose of human life.
Achieving happiness requires living according to man's nature. That means taking those long-range actions required for rational prosperity in order to enjoy life -- to live happily. That also means cherishing and building the emotions of happiness, joy, and love during one's fleeting existence.
Non-aging biological immortality is the technology that will allow human beings to live physically and consciously forever with growing prosperity and happiness. That is man's highest moral goal. And, as Zon would have told me, such biological immortality is not only possible but becomes a mandatory moral obligation through man's self-invented consciousness.
First, important to understand is that the purpose of biological immortality is not to serve others, society, or mankind, but to preserve forever the most precious, important value in the universe -- one's own individual, integrated physical and conscious self. For, the moral purpose of preserving anyone, including great value producers as Michelangelo, Mozart, Carnegie, or Einstein, is not to benefit society (even though society would enormously benefit), but to deliver the ultimate value to that lone individual. And the ultimate value is to continue living as an individual...to continue experiencing flesh-and-blood life, growth, thoughts, values, prosperity, love, and happiness forever.
So, whereas, the ultimate goal for conscious beings on planet Earth is non-aging biological immortality, the supreme importance of that goal lies not in just preserving human consciousness but in preserving an individual's own sense of self...the continuous sense of "I-ness". Indeed, the most important value of human biological immortality lies not in preserving a creative, productive individual for the benefit of society, but in preserving that individual's sense of self for the benefit of himself and his loved ones -- for his own continued happiness and growing enjoyment of life. Thus, the technological challenge lies not just in preserving consciousness, but in isolating and then preserving one's own sense of self...one's sense of "I-ness".
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