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    Why is society complacent with death

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    Posted · Edited by Ty Omaha

    It makes me so upset that society is so content with their DNA degrading, calling it old age, and then dying and having arrangements to be guaranteed to never exist again from decomposing underground or being incinerated.

    In the unfortunate event that you do stop living unexpectedly, you can be cryopreserved where they replace the water in your body with an anti-crystallization fluid to preserve the structures of your cells (vitrification) and then be put into liquid nitrogen to prevent you from decomposing. This field is called Cryonics. It is expensive, but most people pay for it with life insurance. The hopes are in the future there will be technology that will be able to fix your original condition and bring you back.

    "Death/old age is just a part of life" - so are diseases but we actively combat those everyday.

    "I will go to heaven" - How can people blindly trust religion when that caused us to drill holes in mentally ill people's skulls to "release the demons", instead of trusting what has progressed us to this day and age surrounded by incredible levels of technology?

    DNA degrading over time is equivalent to endlessly photocopying a copy of a copy etc., over time the quality will continue to get worse compared to the original. Our DNA has many corrective and safety measures but over time it can't correct for that much. 

    Cryopreservation, if it ever advances to a simple on/off state, we will be able to explore the universe. Same with stopping our DNA from degrading. 
     

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    Here are some links if you want to learn more about DNA degradation:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetic_clock  & https://stresscenter.ucsf.edu/measures/epigenetic-clock

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_methylation

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_repair

    https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/basics/dna

    Here is a link for what (in my opinion) is the best Cryonics company that currently exists: https://alcor.org/ With the 1120 living members currently signed up, if each one of them stops living they will have $137,000,000 USD in available funds. I do not recommend the cheaper Cryonics Institute in Michigan because they can take over a month to get your body into long term storage and by that point you have already decomposed too much.

     

     

    The idea of never ever existing again I find to be absolutely horrible. I love existing and always want to exist. I wish more people shared the same sentiment, so we would have more funding and research towards fixing DNA degradation.

    What's your thoughts with all of this?

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    Halloween stuff ideas

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    Posted · Edited by Ty Omaha

    Post ideas of halloween things to add

    Current ideas:

    skeleton ops
    Terror Butterflies
    walking jack o lanterns
    Sentient pumpkins!
    Turn ian into a FRIENDLY greater hellhound

    fix zombies

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    Admin Note Policy and Transparency

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    Posted · Edited by Ty Omaha

    "Did X, watch for more X, seems to be having issues with X keep an eye out"

    Adminhelp: "Excuse me? I am not having issues with X. That other incident with X was well over 3 months ago and etc."

    2 months later: "The only reason you're PMing me is because it says in my notes I am having trouble with X, that note is wrong because [insert argument that won't change the outcome of anything and just waste time]"

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