Eternal whisperings around desolate shores
I think one of the things that make planning (and living) life so hard is the combination of the facts that
Its end date is uncertain;
It is rather highly likely that one’s faculties will be duller towards the end.If it was certain that when we sleep on our 40th birthday, we wouldn’t wake up, how different would the world be?
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There will be considerable pressure to have kids at age eighteen or so. […] Other people would attempt to maintain a collegiate lifestyle through their death at age forty. […]
The likelihood of warfare would rise, if only because the sage elderly won’t be around and male hormones will run rampant. […]
Credit would be harder to come by and the rate of home ownership would fall.
