{"id":7620,"date":"2019-09-30T04:20:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/death-is-a-tragedy\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:20:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:20:22","slug":"death-is-a-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/death-is-a-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Is A Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Kurzweil wants to eradicate natural aging and death.  If his plans don\u2019t advance as quickly as he expects and he ends up dying, he will be frozen in liquid nitrogen with instructions to reawaken him once science has figured out immortality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are daunted when they hear of these things,\u201d Kurzweil once said.  \u201cThen they say, \u2018I don\u2019t know if I want to live that long.\u2019\u201d For Kurzweil, who has two children, the acceptance of inevitable death is no saner than the acceptance of early death.  \u201cIt\u2019s a common philosophical position that death gives meaning to life, but death is a great robber of meaning,\u201d he said.  \u201cIt robs us of love.  It is a complete loss of ourselves.  It is a tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from Tad Friend&#8217;s article, &#8220;The God Pill.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Kurzweil wants to eradicate natural aging and death. If his plans don\u2019t advance as quickly as he expects and he ends up dying, he will be frozen in liquid nitrogen with instructions to reawaken him once science has figured out immortality. \u201cPeople are daunted when they hear of these things,\u201d Kurzweil once said. \u201cThen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3597,312,1104,577,311,1031],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}