What do warmongers and strongmen chat about? Living forever, of course.

  • p3n@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Death from unnatural causes aside, there are so many potentially fatal complications involved with an organ transplant, and even if you dodge all those bullets, there is the simple fact that we degenerate at a cellular level. None of us are on this Earth for long: rich, poor, president or janitor, death will not discriminate.

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      3 days ago

      It’s really bad for the rich and powerful to forget that. Like partly for the people whose organs they’ll steal, but also just like for their psyches. Like, they’re clearly losing it.

      Honestly even Rome (the republic) managed to be healthier about it. The element of the memento mori in the triumph, was just healthy. Sure you can have your great celebration honoring your conquest, but a slave will be following you reminding you that you too will die the entire time.