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[-] bss03@infosec.pub 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you knew anything about The Culture, you'd know it's not that simple.

Attitudes individual citizens have towards death are varied (and have varied throughout the Culture's history). While many, if not most, citizens make some use of backup technology, many others do not, preferring instead to risk death without the possibility of recovery (for example when engaging in extreme sports). These citizens are sometimes called "disposables", and are described in Look to Windward. Taking into account such accidents, voluntary euthanasia for emotional reasons, or choices like sublimation (abandoning physical reality), the average lifespan of humans is said in Excession to be around 350 to 400 years. Some citizens choose to forgo death altogether, although this is rarely done and is viewed as an eccentricity. Other options instead of death include conversion of an individual's consciousness into an AI, joining of a group mind (which can include biological and non-biological consciousnesses), or subliming (usually in association with a group mind).

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture#Death

I want optional mortality, but am also comfortable with death, and I can imagine situations of survival where I would prefer death.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

If you knew anything about The Culture, you’d know it’s not that simple...

OR

"There's even more to it than that!" [putdown intro not necessary]

[-] bss03@infosec.pub 1 points 1 week ago

I think my reply was still a de-escalation from the attitude in the post to which I was replying. But, noted that I could be better.

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