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Why Die?

CGP Grey - 2017-10-20

Watch part 2 from Kurzgesagt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoJsr4IwCm4

How many people die in a day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMNGEY8OZqo&list=PLqs5ohhass_SSqX3CIrRIeOgZmrY-Ah5F&index=1

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CGP Grey - 2017-10-20

Whenever Kurzgesagt and I get together the topic of life extension comes up. A lot. Go watch his part 2 video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoJsr4IwCm4

J.A.V VES - 2019-10-01

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SANESS 1 - 2020-02-09

I want to become a robot in a dystopian future

Byzantium is a 3 province empire - 2020-03-13

I would like to counter the overpopulation argument as false as most death every year is due to cardiovascular diseases, cancers, and suicides more likely than homicides.

Afonso Rodrigues - 2020-04-03

Grey there is a bee in your desk at 2:45

Link9058 - 2020-04-12

lmao worded like Kurzegesagt is a single person

Nick - 2018-01-07

Imagine dying the day before immortality is created

DreamCanvas - 2020-03-25

@The Looinrims Well, if our class system still allows disease to persist; those diseases will intrinsically pose a threat to even the privileged. So, any meaningful 'immortality' has to be available to everyone otherwise it's unlikely to be successful.

SCP Türkiye - 2020-04-04

@HellspawnStudio "Natural" is not good or nice. Genetic engineering isn't bad.

HellspawnStudio - 2020-04-04

@SCP Türkiye never said it was

Sammy The Believer - 2020-04-05

Actually there would still be an intensely long hospital wait.

O 99 - 2020-04-06

@Corrupted Gamer idiøt

Moonatik - 2019-05-09

CGP: People aren't going to be trying to give ourselves diseases we've already eradicated.
Anti-Vaxxers: that's where you're wrong kiddo

Krystal Myth - 2020-03-24

@Auron3991 Honey, Anti-vaxxers ARE NOT DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN. They ARE Actively CAUSING THE PROBLEM.

Krystal Myth - 2020-03-24

@Auron3991 You're a fool.

David Murphy - 2020-03-25

@Auron3991 "pox parties" many antivaxers are so batshit insane that they actively set out to get their children infected with diseases for which we have working vaccines.

In our millennia long war with the ancient horrors, Anti-vaxers are the turncoats and darkfriends who ally themselves with the monsters.

DreamCanvas - 2020-03-25

@David Murphy "pox parties" were most popular before the chickenpox vaccine was invented, which was actually quite recently. Most who participated in such events likely would have preferred a vaccine were it available at the time.

In fact, the world's first vaccine gave people the disease "cowpox", because it was similar enough to smallpox to confer immunity while being far, far less dangerous. Of course, modern vaccines are far safer and more effective then such methods.

Sammy The Believer - 2020-04-05

@Auron3991 It's no more effective than vaccines, which are just a dead version of the virus. In fact, doing this is far more likely to kill you than vaccines. Anti-vaxxers have forgotten WHY vaccines were created in the first place. People just hate admitting when others are right.

Winterfell - 2019-09-06

Thanks CGP, I now have overcome my acceptance of death and it now terrifies me again

Pi is the best - 2020-04-12

juanete838 for one, if it’s true that there is a cure, eventually it’ll just become commonplace and everyone will have it.

But more importantly, CGP literally never said there is a cure or that there will ever be one. Nor have I. We simply acknowledge there are methods that have potential. Us putting our trust in them honestly doesn’t make us feel better, because relying on one thing working when it clearly might not in our lifetime (and if it does, not in a time period in which it’s affordable) is scary.

We simply have our ideas on death, know that certain methods may one day relieve the burden of death from our society, and want to believe this is how it’s going to happen, and believe with diligent work and from tens to thousands of years depending on the work quality and possibility of it, it will. And that’s not an unrealistic belief.

juanete838 - 2020-04-12

@Pi is the best but it isn't realistic either. There is a problem in the lenght of something I dont remember about. Like death is part of our DNA. I don't really remember very well and I don't want to lie. But there is a structure that gets shorter everytime the cell gets divided or something. And its related with getting old. Some jellyfish can reverse that process and are inmortal (at least about dying of old age), but whe can't.

Also that makes you think, that death is a feature, it is not convenient for the individual but it is for the species. As the old die to leave place for the young.

So, do you think this belief is not as valid as CGP's? I think it is, but more important, I don't really care. I expect death bravely.

Pi is the best - 2020-04-12

juanete838 for one, the entire reason reproduction exists is to circumvent death, so no, death isn’t convenient for the species.

Secondly, genetic engineering exists.

Third, there are ideas to have us not have carbon based bodies anymore, whether having our minds uploaded to the internet or have robotic bodies.

Fourth, I don’t care what the hell genetics says. It’s irrelevant to CPG’s view and doesn’t invalidate what he says.

Fifth, genetics agrees with me. If immortality was bad for a species the ageless species wouldn’t be ageless. They’d have died off. It’d be beneficial to humans to be immortal even via genes.

Sixth, just because something is inevitable, that doesn’t make it ok or good.

juanete838 - 2020-04-12

@Pi is the best what if inmortality for the species as a whole is good enough for me? I would be happy enough if I died with many children of my own alive, living a good life.

1) death isn't convenient to the species
Then why mice die so fast?

5) They have another way to evolve if I remember correctly.

6) Just because something is inevitable, that doesn't make it bad.

Pi is the best - 2020-04-12

juanete838 I would rather have the children living a good life and all but NOT having to mourn my loss and undergo the trauma of losing a parent, thanks, let alone me having to possibly say goodbye to them first.

Maybe enable aging until a certain point and then stop, that’d be aight.

1. Mice don’t live longer because natural selection is a trade off. However, it’d still be favorable to have all desirable traits, one of which is life extension, and indefinite life extension is the most desirable of the bunch. But you can’t have every desirable trait.

5. They have another way to evolve... I’m confused as to how this is a point, elaborate. All species have another way to evolve at any given junction, this is just a fact, it’s not an argument that one way is preferable or worse; the fact is, we see several species the way that they are, and they aren’t going away; in other words, these were the desirable mutations that natural selection picked. In other words, they balanced the trade off.

6. This is a non-argument; all you’ve established is that the inevitability of something is absolutely, 100% irrelevant to a subject, which is MY EXACT POINT.

Paai - 2019-06-02

I died once.
0/10 would not recommend

Starman - 2020-03-07

Me too

Gregory Crawford - 2020-03-08

"Did you die?"
"Sadly yes..
But I lived!"

The Conservative Millennial - 2020-03-13

No, but I've actually died though...

0/10

Crescentpaws5000Wolfpaws - 2020-03-16

Where doggos there that’s all that matters to me

Sam Froese - 2020-03-23

I died twice

ItzYoBoi DatOneGuy - 2019-08-21

Imagine going to prison with a life sentence

The Kitten Gamer - 2020-02-23

I think if immortality or near immortality was created a “life sentence” could be 80 or 120 years or they could just kill you

Vivian Tristesse - 2020-03-06

@9nikolai Or you could wait until the institutions of power keeping you there crumbled, and then walk out.

Random Ashe - 2020-03-10

@Fiji Waterboard Life sentences would be adjusted. Killing a person is no longer denying them 0-100 years of continued life, but an infinite amount of life. Thus the punishment would have to match. Otherwise, you could kill someone and just wait out the 300 years of punishment then continue living your life.

Krystal Myth - 2020-03-24

We should end life sentences. I'd rather be executed.

UeUeUdk - 2020-04-03

@P2M i think it would be changed to 50 since people would lose their minds in a century.

steverman - 2019-05-28

this video: exists
people who experience existential crisis: aww shit, here we go again

DoubleMonk050607 Mendoza - 2020-03-27

You mean Kurzgesat

Fishbiene - 2019-12-03

Reaper: Come on. You'll like being dead


Me: that's what they said about being alive

Pomeranian Productions - 2020-03-08

I am Commander Shepard and this is my favorite comment below the video.

IBM do U? - 2020-04-04

UNCLE VLADIMIR?!

ThatOneSomeone 0 - 2019-05-26

"IF YOU TORTURE SOMEONE TO MAKE THEM APPRECIEATE LIFE BETTER YOU ARE A MONSTET"

SAW PLOT IN A NUTSHELL

no - 2020-01-07

I just thinked about that xd

cautare pvp - 2020-01-26

lol jigsaw has some points but is still not favorable

Brynn TempleWood - 2020-02-05

Many parents do that to their children

LUKA HAN - 2020-03-07

yes the gruesome m o n s t e t

Keegan Hurley - 2020-03-09

No you will be jigsaw

LostIn HilbertSpace - 2019-05-04

I love how the edges of the video rots as the video goes on, then heals as Grey talks about stopping death

Joshua Ordesta - 2019-08-22

Just noticed it.... damn.

Mastershake 247 - 2019-08-23

@Joshua Ordesta As did I.

Pedro Figueira - 2019-11-11

I fucking thought my phone was broken. Hahaha

Stalin ,exe - 2019-07-19

why die when you can live? BREAKING NEWS death rate drops to 0%

Aperture Laboratories - 2020-01-30

I would love to see this on the onion.

Black Mesa - 2020-03-29

@Aperture LaboratoriesHow's Cave doing?

Aperture Laboratories - 2020-03-29

Black Mesa Still dead, unfortunately.
All those moon rocks took their toll on him.

Black Mesa - 2020-03-29

@Aperture Laboratories Don't do moon rocks kids.

Lenard Segnitz - 2019-05-10

Humanity suffers from short-term thinking. We generally think ahead a few weeks, maybe a few months out. Very few think carefully in the moment about outcomes years from now. Virtually no one gives a fig about a future they will not live to see for themselves.

But if we were to crack the aging and death problem I expect our thinking will become much longer term. We will enjoy the shade of that oak whose acorn we plant. We will personally suffer the consequences of our poor descisions.

Pandaman_5 - 2020-03-10

@TheSaneYoutuber the problem with saying there are infinite choices is that a lot of things are behind a pay wall that some people may not have enough for.

TheSaneYoutuber - 2020-03-11

@Pandaman_5 But you'll have all the time in the world to earn the money in order to pay for the paywalls.

kolja leffek - 2020-03-16

That
1) doesnt make people smarter
2) will definitely lead to the creation of artificial reapers

DreamCanvas - 2020-03-25

​@Jeroen Well it's a good thing that Oaks aren't the only type of tree. And that trees aren't the only type of plant. And that plants aren't the only type of thing a person can nurture...Our entire lifespans are a blip in cosmic time on a mote of dust spinning throughout the infinite cosmos. With immortality, the galaxies themselves could become our playgrounds and backyards.

SkeletonCrew - 2020-03-30

I like the sound of that

Cesar Estrada - 2019-06-27

Title: Why Die?

Well we did it boys. Dying is no more.

eat hot chip and lie - 2020-04-03

I can't believe CGP Grey destroyed the CEO of Dying.

Astolfo - 2019-10-04

I wouldn't want to be truly immortal, not by a long shot. But a "biological" immortality, where illness and ageing doesn't affect me? That sounds nice.

I don't know how long I want to live, but I know it's not forever.

Ultimate Gamer - 2020-01-19

​@Jerry Green 1 - "So what I was thinking about is that why we treat such things bad at first place."

Because we don't live completely isolated. What we do can affect other individuals.
I mean sure, if you stop to think deeper into it you'll realize we're all basically slaves to the chemical reactions that happens in our brains, which in turn can be altered by what we perceive through our senses.
Therefore, I don't see a act as something immoral because is done by a evil person, but rather because it harms other people. That's how I determine how something is "bad". That's why I think we should send harmful people to prison. Not because they deserve to be punished, but because they are a danger to society and therefore need to be re-educated so that they can be re-inserted into society without harming other people again.

2 - "When kids are playing, one of them pretends to be dying"

Let me say that if (and only IF) you're refering to the case where you get sick on purpose to be taken care by your boyfriend/girlfriend, it is not equally comparable. Because you don't have any significant risks of dying by simply pretending to be sick.

I wouldn't say "bad" in the sense that is bad enough to be a crime, but bad enough for me to advise it's not something you should do. It would be the equivalent of cussing people for absolutely no good reason. Now, I'm not saying it would make you a criminal, but it can make you a asshole. A person that doesn't have much regard for his girlfriend's feelings.

If you were not refering to the case where you get sick on purpose to be taken care by your boyfriend/girlfriend, disregard everything I just said in this.

3 - "And also unable to make suicide because of instincts of survival etc. So you’ve left to be in eternal suffering."

No, you wouldn't. Because biological immortality wouldn't make you indestructible. Eventually we're all inevitably going to die due to entropy.

Also, if you still have strong instincts of survival that prevent you from killing yourself, than that's either because they're telling you that you still want to do stuff in life or because you don't want to feel pain. You only have suicide thoughts when you have extremely low confort with life. Be it because you're extremely unamused (depression) or in a lot of pain.

So, again, biological immortality would only be a problem if you couldn't kill yourself painlessly.

4 - "At the same moment, you won’t get care since you don’t need."

Not necessarily. There are people that like to take care of others, even if they get sick on purpose. There are all kinds of people in this planet. I'm not sure how many of them are. And yes, there could be very few of these kind of people. But biological immortality has many more pros than cons. That's why it's a good thing.

5 - "mine is just one of millions"

Prove it.

Jerry Green - 2020-01-19

@Ultimate Gamer Thanks for feedback again, I really appreciate it.

> Prove it.

Well, I won't actually "prove" my words because I won't give you these millions of examples. But maybe I can show you how I generate them. As I said, it looks like a bad thing here is to "want" something. And subconsciousness excuses it! But if you consciously want something, – then it's almost like evil... So, another example:

You're alone and you subconsciously want sex. All this subconscious part makes you do funny or unpredictable or whatever things needed, with true kindness, so your girlfriend/boyfriend sees you as a good human, you get stick together, and having the most beautiful sex ever, which gives you truest feelings of love ever felt. For both of you.

Now imagine this is happening consciously. You know normal people live together and make sex, and you want that too, - and you try to do it, but you won't hide your true reason from yourself this time. It's also will be visible to others, at least in your behaviour. And now people get frustrated of you and your behaviour, - you're not natural. If you're woman, they think you're whore. If you're man, they think you're typical man wanting sex, not worth it.

Or even better, - after many attempts you've ended up with idea that you can't get together with people "normally". You still don't want to hurt anyone. You still want sex. Depending on your gender, you will do different "evil" things. Assume you're man (easier example for me). What options for you as a man? Prostitutes? Pretty likely. In that way you simply become what they thought about you.

Assuming you're woman, - well, then I'm not so sure, I'm not woman. But probably, rather than trying to get together with a good "worth it" person, you'll go have sex with some masculine person, which will likely treat you like shit. Then another guy, then another. Turning you into what people thought about you initially, - a whore.

All of it is a little bit out of original topic of biological immortality, - with which I agree, I like the idea of biological immortality. I don't want to die just because my body have to. I want my death to be chosen rather than just happened (hopefully chosen by me). I like consciousness and don't like subconsciousness. I want reasons, etc. - to be open, rather than hidden. Though, I wanna find out if it's possible to live absolutely consciously. If not, then it's a little bit weird... While turning this idea into another angle, - "if it's possible to live absolutely subconsciously", this will end up with being animal. But we want to be more than animal, we want consciousness. At the same time, - absolute consciousness is almost like death itself. Things turn weird, and I'm little bit disappointed. This also leads to idea that there's no much sense in self-improving.

Ultimate Gamer - 2020-01-20

​@Jerry Green 1 - "But if you consciously want something, – then it's almost like evil"

It's evil if it harms other people. If it doesn't, I couldn't possibly care less.

2 - "If you're woman, they think you're whore."

I would say SOME people think that, but not all.

3 - "But we want to be more than animal"

Again with the "WE" thing. I'm sorry, but YOU want to be more than a animal. Not me. So speak for yourself. I'm fine being a animal with subconscious urges.

I swear I'm not trying to be rude with you, but you shot so many unconfirmed (and some straight up false) premises all at once and derailed from the subject of biological immortality (as you admitted yourself) that this is getting kinda complicated for me to deal with without feeling like questioning you constantly.

4 - "At the same time, - absolute consciousness is almost like death itself"

How so?

5 - "This also leads to idea that there's no much sense in self-improving."

This what? The idea of absolute consciousness or biological immortality? And why?

skitzmaker - 2020-03-01

Astolfo biological immortality does not make death disappear . But it makes death a choice. And it is always nice to have a choice.

cityuser - 2020-04-13

Yooo fuck that. Let's live forever, why not?
Imagine the crazy shit we'll have 10^8 years from now.

Justin Y. - 2017-10-20

What if plants are farming us and waiting for us to die in order to harvest our nutrients?

AHMED Al-rashdi - 2019-09-17

BIG BRAIN

Paydaywolf - 2019-11-24

Oh hey I’m starting to see you again

Good Guy 69 - 2019-12-14

We have other animals for y
That

Scooty789 - 2020-02-15

OH FUCK

Magical Wizard - 2020-03-24

🤣🤣🤣

SnivyLink2 - 2020-02-01

the whole "death gives life meaning" in my opinion is really just how the human race collectively tries to cope with death

Pi is the best - 2020-04-12

Empirical Thinking I don’t believe in objective morals either. I believe that, subjectively, if most people think about it for a split second, it’s a bad thing. There aren’t objective values but there are subjective values that, for all practical intents, aren’t subjective.

But for one, death isn’t necessarily inevitable. Again, it’s easily possible that we could transfer our brains into the internet or a robot and for all practical intents be immortal.

But again, metaphorical truth. If something is metaphorically true, that means it’s a lie, but believing it has a positive outcome. This is how death being inevitable works.

If you act as though death can be prevented, you will thereby extend life and have a positive outcome.

So even if you believe that fact, just “accepting it” is bad. Fight against that fact and use every bit of power you can to prove it false. Just looking at it as true isn’t accepting it; accepting it is acting on it, which is a bad thing to do.

Empirical Thinking - 2020-04-12

@Pi is the best Well, I guess that is where we disagree. Accepting it, isn't acting on it.

The notion of acceptance is a psychological process that doesn't require action.

I believe, one can live a long and prosperous life filled with many positive outcomes, whilst having accepted death as a reality sometime in the future.

Whether through biological death or the death of our solar system... or even perhaps the universe. Entropy is a law.

Pi is the best - 2020-04-12

Empirical Thinking well then accepting death has officially lost meaning. I don’t accept death as inevitable; I purposefully delude myself into believing the opposite. Because if I accept death as inevitable, then I will not try to avoid it. I may try to prolong it, but I wouldn’t try to avoid it. However, trying to avoid it entirely is the most efficient method to prolonging it.

And me, struggling to fight against a fact that I know is probably true, doesn’t sound like accepting the fact to me.

Empirical Thinking - 2020-04-12

​@Pi is the best Well fair enough. If that frame of mind helps you live a life that you are satisfied with, then so be it.

That's all that matters to me at the end of the day. Nice discussion tho.

Wish you a prosperous and hopefully eternal life. :)

Pi is the best - 2020-04-12

Empirical Thinking I don’t expect life to be eternal. I think the maximum I’ll get is about a googol years at best, and that’s the goal right now. Regardless, have a prosperous and hopefully eternal life as well.

LizardianGaming - 2019-09-27

Dude,thank you. I started worrying about death. I tried to see videos to confort me,they all said the same thing:
"Death gives life meaning"
"Immortality would be awful"
Some of the greatest minds to cross this world also said the same thing:
"Death is good"
But you said:
"Death is bad"
"Immortality would be amazing"
This is probably the first time that i heard someone say that. Thank you for comforting me,for real this time.

Lukash Gg - 2019-06-18

Finally, i found the bee!!
2:43

Emilio LT - 2019-05-05

"You always live in the now" - CGP Grey

sulljoh1 - 2019-05-28

You always DIE now

Random Idiot - 2017-10-21

I don't think I can die. It hasn't happened so far.

Keep Calm And Defeat Aging With Science - 2019-11-25

It never happens subjectively, indeed. But suffering does.

Arthur Morgan - 2019-12-27

@George Payne Is there? Is there? IS THERE?

Ultimate Gamer - 2020-01-18

@theokchannel Then take your wallet.

Steve Smith - 2020-03-07

@Z- Man r/woooosh

Jloc - 2020-04-01

@egosomnio I expect to die trying, too. Or I'll just forget to live one day, not really sure.
Maybe I can just forget to die...?

Louis-Nicolas Davout - 2019-05-13

Hey there CGP Grey, I've been a long time subscriber and I have to say this video has affected me to the core. Initially, when I first saw this video I was like "Huh, that's a nice thought. Never thought about it like that." Then I listened to your Hello Internet podcast, and that's when I realized that this video was not just a thought-experiment video but rather a call-to-arms. It is a declaration of war against senescence, and this was your recruitment video to the scientists and students who study biology, chemistry, and medicine to join the war effort. I am only a student in college, majoring in Neuroscience, and I have fully shifted my attention to aging in the Brain. While a mere corporal now, I hope to one day be a Napoleon, and to aid in this crusade you have called. As Napoleon himself said, "there is but one favorable moment in a battle - the art is to seize it!" and I fear we are reaching that moment soon.

Black Science Man - 2019-07-05

I'm studying business how can I help?

Louis-Nicolas Davout - 2019-07-05

@Black Science Man Aye not everyone has to pick up the test tube and go to war with it. Some people just aren't interested in the sciences as natural profession. In this case, the most important thing is vocal support, i.e making the topic known and to help show that the public is on our side, and as someone in business, investments and funding to help with other companies that will try and accomplish this will also be of massive help. It'll be like the researchers will be the soldiers on the battlefield and anyone who isn't in the lab will be the home front, showing support and funding, both equally as important to defeat the ultimate enemy. CGP Grey here for example is helping just by bringing awareness to the issue :)

#Deathstroke - 2020-02-11

Studying political science and maybe law so get ready boys cause i'm ready to propose a who budget plan for this idea






Side note: that's if I ever make it big in the political world.

littlepurplebluegirl - 2020-03-20

I'm loving your dedication to an issue / field you care so much about. And fantastic metaphor as a corporal hoping to "one day be a Napoleon." (I'm an English major if you couldn't tell lol. I'm toying with some story ideas where people don't die to show the benefits of such a potential world.)

Here's to using your field of study to better the world!
Here's to an age of living!

Bersucker - 2019-05-10

THIS
i always get told i am insane for wanting to live eternally at maximum health

ninelivesstealer - 2019-12-02

If you got your wish, eventually, you'd probably wish you hadn't.

TheGreatYukon - 2019-12-06

@ninelivesstealer And then you'd find something cool to do and call your prior self a pillock. Hate this narrative, how about you get bored of being alive and I'll keep being in constant stress and depression while still not wanting to die proving this bullshit argument wrong. If I can want to be alive while seriously depressed, with no drive in life and a fucking mental disorder, than everyone else can quit whining about how they'll want to kill themselves because they're too bored. I'm not shitting on people who have suicidal thoughts, it's a serious and terrible thing and I feel sorry for them. However, THIS reason of all reasons to off yourself is just absurd to me. Do not underestimate the ability of me and many other people to do the same shit over and over again. Y-know that dude that watched Lord of the Rings basically every day on Netflix? There are people who aren't as needy of variety as others. Add the basic human desire to be alive, the fact that nostalgia is a thing, and years of experience? You'll just re-do shit you did 200 years ago and love it. I love replaying games I played just a few years ago.

Al3xh413 - 2020-02-16

@ninelivesstealer If I get bored i can always step off a cliff. Suicide kind of stops being a terrible tragedy if the one dying is a 600 year old whose decided to stop.

NaT hA n - 2020-03-11

"When do you want to die" vsauce music plays

TheGreatYukon - 2019-08-20

Thank you for this video. I'm an atheist who has been grappling with the fear of death as something I've thought about daily for... I don't know, 8 months? I've kind of lost track of it, I've always been afraid but managed to keep my mind off it most of the time. It came in bursts, usually whenever I get depressed. However now, after the serious stress I experienced in college, it forced it into the forefront of my mind and since then I've been very depressed. The idea of oblivion terrifies me, and I absolutely refuse to believe this asinine concept that scarcity creates value. My life, my existence, my only moment to BE is not a consumer good. I am not a crop that gets less valuable because there's more of me, I am a conscious and intelligent being. I'm not ready to go, and I don't know if I will EVER be, because the concept that some people have where they accept this just does not compute for me. I've been this way since I was a kid.

While I'm still doing pretty badly, this video was a light in the darkness for me. What I've always used to comfort myself is technology fixing the problem, but I've gradually come to realize how incredibly difficult what I want to do, is. If we extend our lifespans, we still have the planet to take us out. There's still natural disasters, and of course, other humans. Society can probably fix the latter, and technology the former, though both would be very advanced. Then we have space-level natural disasters, from the preventable like an asteroid, to the insane like gamma ray bursts and black holes. My only hope is that if we can stop aging, we're going to need to rapidly develop technology that will enable us to hit higher tiers of civilization. I'm leaning towards creating a self improving AI whose purpose is to find a way to survive eternally, take the robot singularity thing and use it for good. Ultimately, we have the heat death of the universe to dodge. I'm... not sure how to deal with that. The only solution that comes to mind is we have to find some way to either create a completely closed system that doesn't lose energy, or leave the universe. Or y-know, discover something new about the nature of the universe that lets us deal with these things.

I know what I'm talking about is way, WAY in the future. It's crazy sci-fi stuff, it's not something I should concern myself with. I just can't help it, they are concerns I have, and my brain refuses to let this issue rest until I've thought up a potential way to survive. Because the level of technology I'm talking about is so insanely advanced though, I'm basically having to put my faith in science. The problem is faith isn't really something I do. Still, we've got millions of years to work with, and considering how much we've advanced technologically, socially and scientifically in just the last few centuries? Maybe we've got a chance. I'm just pessimistic and in a bad headspace so that's only some comfort, but I need something. I've never felt as awful as I did when my fear was at its peak. Either way, thank you again for this video, and for the Fable of the Dragon Tyrant. They've made me feel a bit better. I don't want to accept this, and the hope that we have a way out is important to me. I really, really don't want to be delusional about this, and I hope I'm not.

platogkrone - 2020-04-12

@Empirical Thinking No, I don't. What are you trying to say?

Empirical Thinking - 2020-04-12

@platogkrone I'm saying you may want to stay alive, but we're not even sure what that means. We've all just popped into existence. I think we should question the nature of existence first before we desperately try to cling to it.

platogkrone - 2020-04-13

@Empirical Thinking We can't know anything if we're dead.

Empirical Thinking - 2020-04-13

platogkrone well, we’d know what it’d be like to be dead.

platogkrone - 2020-04-13

@Empirical Thinking Not necessarily. One possibility is that we just cease to exist.

Fliyo MB - 2019-02-16

"When do you want to die?"
Me: Why are you threatening me

Mustachio's Motovlogs - 2019-10-15

Don't threaten me with a good time!

The kirbmaster - 2019-11-02

Also me: why is he helping me

Daryl Sawyer - 2019-12-31

Are you threatening me? I am Cornholio! I need TP for my bunghole. Also, I'm rich, and a Senator. And because I will never die, I shall always bee rich and a senator.

Jack Vella - 2020-01-03

“Deliver me from temptation”

platogkrone - 2020-04-07

You forgot this. —> ?

Xyzzyx - 2019-06-15

Wait until 2019 CP Grey finds out that humans bring back measles to prove the reaper wrong.

NIHIL - 2020-01-25

Aged like milk that comment did.

The Dude - 2020-02-29

@NIHIL over 2000 dead so far, let's go for 200,000.

HBC 101 - 2020-03-22

You don't need measles..

Laughs in Coronavirus

Johanna Ström - 2019-06-27

This really makes me wanna exercise so that im not on the wrong side of the "futurecasm" (?)

Uncle Creepy - 2019-08-06

There’s no evidence that someone alive will die other than the fact that everyone who is dead was once alive.

blue cactus - 2019-11-24

this comment makes me feel like i've smoked a ton of weed

Manly Tears - 2020-03-22

Imagine the immortality becoming so commonplace that the "vampires" become no longer cool and sexy.

Christian Chambers - 2020-03-13

“When do you want to die?”



Me:
Now

Lill David - 2019-09-19

You’re missing one factor. I want to die

Project 2022 • 30 seconds ago - 2019-11-21

I want to live much longer but without misery

Keep Calm And Defeat Aging With Science - 2019-11-25

What are you waiting for?

Hunter McKenna - 2019-12-26

@Keep Calm And Defeat Aging With Science Wow, you're a real piece of shit.

Arthur Morgan - 2019-12-27

Need help?

Not Lis - 2020-02-29

Hunter McKenna he was kidding dude

ArcNovaV1 - 2019-10-13

Don't do that. Don't give me hope.

Obie Chan - 2019-09-20

Person: dies
CGP grey: why die?

Frozen Fire - Roblox & More - 2019-10-29

because no

Simon S. - 2020-03-17

How to escape life sentence in jail:
Say, "I'm dead...inside."

DeathLightning44 - 2019-07-02

CGP Grey: You live in the now   . Vsauce: You live in the past.

punkhop23 - 2019-06-29

3:42 is LITERALLY how everyone older in my life describes their life so quick like that, yeaahh if i could not die thatd be greaaat, thanks

Triangulator - 2020-03-22

When you tell to your suicidal friend to "hang in there":

Mikko Översti - 2018-07-31

Did you know? People were immortal until Rupert Die invented dying when he tried to sleep twice at the same time.

AO1337 - 2019-03-06

good job r/whoosh you ruined the joke

The Sarge - 2019-03-07

I thought it was when he tried to sell his soul on the internet

Tyler McDaniel - 2019-06-27

Did you know people were immortal until the dragon showed up?

Legitimate - 2019-07-17

Tyler McDaniel nope

:o - 2019-10-15

Omg u so stupid am very smart man did not make die u dumb ahaha am smart rupert did not make die ahaha smart yes

Crivan Lomboy - 2019-05-20

Reaper”im coming for you!” 3 dramatic seconds later Reaper”Good to go?”


id like to live to be 93.141592653589323...

It’s Joker - 2019-12-04

I’m happy to see that more people liked the video then who turned down because those are with Can do attitude who believe we CAN change

Hannah Scott - 2020-03-03

"When do you want to die?"
Edgy 14 year old: omg I wanna die now rawr xD

Pilot 101 - 2019-06-13

Death : Okay time to go
Me. : But I don’t have permission to die
Death : Shit.

shmless - 2018-02-07

“If you tortured someone to help them appreciate life, you’d be a monster”

sorry jigsaw, you’re not helping.

Devin Ward - 2018-05-07

tenchimuyo69 How isn't it already mandatory? Life has always been extremely competitive.

Bob Vegana - 2018-07-16

1Kth like 😂😂

Evan Moffitt - 2018-07-19

A Kelp Shake I mean the subjects would still better appreciate their life so you could argue you are sacrificing your figure and conscious to allow others to better appreciate life... if you're, well, a monster

Hermine Cobain Jules Verne das Känguru - 2018-08-13

Devin Ward

that's what I think: why shold it bei boring, to live as long as you want? There is so much on earth to explore, and if you really explored EVERYTHING (what would probably cost you 15000 years), go to the Mars, or whereever in the universe you want to. Build a new world and see, how this society grows. You could do so much!

Suthin Scientist - 2019-10-08

Haha haha haha haha haha haha haha haha!

WadelDee - 2020-03-06

When do I want to die? Well, I want to read every book ever written, watch every video ever made, 100% every game ever programmed including every self-imposed challenge ever invented, I want to learn everything there is to know about the real world and all possible worlds and all impossible worlds, including the perspective of everyone in it throughout their entire lives, I want to count to Graham's number, and I want to write my own books, make my own movies, and program my own games, where I combine all of the above with each other to see where they lead, and I want to share the knowledge with everyone willing to live that long. So, when do I want to die? Definitely long after the heat death of the universe!

Cole Knowles - 2019-09-23

"Bring back Cholera" shirts please. Its time.

Calvin The Cat - 2019-11-12

CGP: "When. Do you want. To die"
Me: I think we all know where this is headed

DancingCheese - 2019-08-04

This gave me vibes from Scythe, a sci-fi I read recently.

RvB Felix - 2019-02-03

I would honestly trade anything for eternal youth and immortality. It would mean I could procrastinate for so long

Live The Future - 2019-10-05

for me it would mean watching the world burn...

Fatima Mahjabin Tasnim - 2019-10-15

I would trade everything for that. So I could enjoy that and my parents.

MelonPlayzYT - 2019-10-16

@Chinedu Opara 😐

Bruh Moment - 2020-02-22

@Chinedu Opara I'd rather suffer for eternity than die .
Im pretty sure that everyone that wants real immortality at all would rather do that than die.

Chinedu Opara - 2020-02-23

@Bruh Moment So you're a masochist? 😬

Blinix Cathian. - 2019-08-29

Wait, isnt this similar to the Fable of the dragon tyrant of this same channel?

Random Berrones - 2020-02-12

Gray:when do you want to die?

Me:is that a threat?