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  • Watch part 2 from Kurzgesagt: • Why Age? Should We End...
    How many people die in a day: • 24 Hours of Death, Part 1
    / cgpgrey
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  • @herculesatan4514
    @herculesatan4514 Před 3 lety +4524

    I mean, no dead person has told us they had any complications.

  • @Ryan50Ryan
    @Ryan50Ryan Před 3 lety +10915

    "The reaper is busy, but he can fit you in. Right Now."
    What a powerful threat.

  • @Redpandas345
    @Redpandas345 Před 2 lety +4043

    CGP GREY: "if you tortured people to make them better appreciate life, you would be a monster."
    Jigsaw: sweats nervously.

  • @soup4219
    @soup4219 Před 2 lety +2854

    "a generation that lives a healthy adulthood as long as they wish to" i'm glad you phrased it like that. because quite frankly eventually some of them will want to stop living. maybe not a lot, but definitely some. removing death by old age doesn't remove death entirely, it gives us a better life to live until we dont want to live it anymore and can go at peace and without pain.

    • @GabrielSantosStandardCombo
      @GabrielSantosStandardCombo Před 2 lety +245

      @Gonda On contraire, the human brain was *designed* to self-improve and to massively cooperate with all the other human brains. There is no limit to these. You're quoting the reaper.

    • @GaleGrim
      @GaleGrim Před 2 lety +4

      @@GabrielSantosStandardCombo The brain is a physical thing with physical limits, I think 100 years of data is too little an estimation for the capacity of the brain, and kinda maybe assumes that the brain keeps all the info sent to it in a lossless format for as long as it exists. we forget and remember things and and learn things and all of that. but eventually it will hit maximum saturation of info and start forgetting things we would rather it didn't. like childhood memories and all that. We aren't capable of willing our self's to not be constrained by our bodies. Cooperation and self improvement are limited, there limit is really large and kinda unknown to us, but it must exist cause we are made of matter and energy that follows "laws" that nothing can break. the only time the laws of physics so much as even bend is when there is a massive amount of energy in a location. which is an exceptional occurrence that happens in environments that it should probably be noted we can't survive in without like.... a lot of machines, knowledge, and material that we have in limited supply. all things that are a live are mortal, and will die. The universe is creeping towards absolute entropy and heat death. a state that nothing of physical matter will be able to exist in. our only choice as far as death goes is not a "yes or no" but a "when" and I only feel comfortable speaking for my self when I say "Not until I absolutely have to"

    • @zap3231
      @zap3231 Před 2 lety +16

      @@GaleGrim Vain. All of your comment is vain.
      Have you learned nothing from the march of science? Every problem has a solution. Everything can be done. You talk about our limit of memories: What tells you the medicine of the future can't fix that? You talk about the heat death of the universe: What tells you the physics of the future can't fix that?
      What we have is never the limit. What is impossible for us today will never be impossible for us sometime in the future. Centuries ago tuberculosis was terminal and smallpox uncurable. Today both are wrong.

    • @therandomhedgehog6557
      @therandomhedgehog6557 Před 2 lety +19

      @@GaleGrim
      Hoo boy is this not an easy read, paragraph breaks England, you should try them.
      -CGP grey
      same goes for you.

    • @maskrlzxw6823
      @maskrlzxw6823 Před 2 lety +1

      @@zap3231 ye

  • @Nick-mh7ve
    @Nick-mh7ve Před 6 lety +29588

    Imagine dying *the day before immortality is created*

    • @megaoli321
      @megaoli321 Před 6 lety +1984

      Nicowis i don't think you'd care too much tbh

    • @TheoneandonlyDrops
      @TheoneandonlyDrops Před 6 lety +3244

      Or alternatively, imagine being the last 'natural-born' human, with every new human being genetically engineered to not die.
      Slowly watching all your other mortal friends die, until you are the last one on earth, surrounded by people who do not comprehend your situation and will never die (of old age at least).

    • @looinrims
      @looinrims Před 6 lety +766

      Statistically speaking a lot of people will, also we shouldn’t forget that this tech wouldn’t be given to everyone, just because the cost would be horrifically large, there will be large groups (likely third world country’s people) looking onward on the Western population who, while susceptible to say
      Gunshots, so this won’t matter to Chicago...but via age and disease, which kills more people than anything ever in the history of ever, will survive whilst onlookers decay and die

    • @instertedgyandunoriginalna3558
      @instertedgyandunoriginalna3558 Před 6 lety +124

      Nicowis man I would love that cuz I don't want to be freaking immortal

    • @Basilisk2077
      @Basilisk2077 Před 6 lety +317

      The Phantom Cookie Enjoy your 70 years. When I'm 700 years old and the captain of the Enterprise shooting aliens I'll think of you.

  • @SquidsINCIsABadYouTuber
    @SquidsINCIsABadYouTuber Před 3 lety +4142

    “Why die”
    We did it boys
    Death is no more

  • @jarancrane2462
    @jarancrane2462 Před 2 lety +940

    I went to college for this exact reason. I majored in biochemistry because thinking about being dead, just not being, not thinking about anything because you can't think, absolutely terrifies me to my core. But then i realized just how bad i am at math at changed majors.

    • @exquantem8294
      @exquantem8294 Před rokem +62

      That's kind of weird.. I'm going to study biochemistry next year for that exact same reason

    • @nosferatu3726
      @nosferatu3726 Před rokem +36

      Don't worry it's just your brain's survival instinct.

    • @redjr242
      @redjr242 Před rokem +27

      Bro keep up the biochem studies. I'll tutor you in math

    • @asr2009
      @asr2009 Před rokem +3

      @@nosferatu3726 its not just about survival instinct. religion has already provided answers to these questions.

    • @archer9338
      @archer9338 Před rokem +32

      I have never understood why people are afraid of being dead. Fear of dying, I understand. There are very few ways of dying that aren't horrible. But, being dead is literally nothing. It is like sleeping without dreaming. You won't be aware of it, because you won't exist.

  • @misstenmistlee1821
    @misstenmistlee1821 Před 2 lety +236

    I find this a strange concept because we're only taught to accept death, while before we learn about it we think otherwise.

    • @roberine7241
      @roberine7241 Před rokem +14

      Well before we learn about death we don’t really think about it.

  • @infinitethings2413
    @infinitethings2413 Před 3 lety +7399

    CGP Grey: Why die?
    Death rate drops to 0%

    • @rattandragon9104
      @rattandragon9104 Před 3 lety +26

      1000%*

    • @kerbodynamicx472
      @kerbodynamicx472 Před 3 lety +90

      Dying is gay... I guess?

    • @saidalas7763
      @saidalas7763 Před 3 lety +29

      Stuupid little kids:
      - " Death gives life meaning, I am a stuupid hollow headed POS child that thinks *if we cured aging* which means dementia, most cancers, most pandemic deaths, heart and stroke attacks, arthritis + decades of suffering and cognitive decline *that would be a bad thing* "

    • @wet0wl
      @wet0wl Před 3 lety +7

      @@kerbodynamicx472 Come on man it’s 2020

    • @Vervaeck
      @Vervaeck Před 3 lety +14

      @@kerbodynamicx472 today kerbodynamic x was found dead

  • @datoneguy2361
    @datoneguy2361 Před 4 lety +3918

    Imagine going to prison with a life sentence

    • @significantpepper5274
      @significantpepper5274 Před 4 lety +424

      Oh...Oh no...That's awful. You are awful. Never talk to me again.

    • @9nikolai
      @9nikolai Před 4 lety +475

      You'd have plenty of time to break yourself out!

    • @significantpepper5274
      @significantpepper5274 Před 4 lety +191

      @@abstrusepaladin Hmm. That's actually a good plan!

    • @masoudpouri1319
      @masoudpouri1319 Před 4 lety +57

      lmao, Then they would make you actually die from old age.

    • @samuelgarcia2510
      @samuelgarcia2510 Před 4 lety +115

      @@abstrusepaladin "Dies from hunger becouse someone forgot about him in the basement they got locked in"

  • @TerrestrisVerita
    @TerrestrisVerita Před rokem +816

    "We don't remix the water to bring back cholera."
    This is how I feel whenever I hear someone wanting to go back to the "old ways" without realizing how nice their lives are now due to the advancements we have. Like somehow if things digressed, but we still somehow keep the advances that have improved our welfare. I swear those people read too much Isekai's and think that they'd somehow be a better, more important person if they were forced to live in a world completely removed from the conveniences and advancements that makes their lives so easy now.

    • @jakubzov
      @jakubzov Před rokem

      I agree. "It's natural to die and we should accept it" = "It's natural to get plague and we should accept It"

    • @autohmae
      @autohmae Před rokem +12

      it's because their are companies, government and others organizations with lots of experts that take away the complexity and make it cheap to it seems trivial.

    • @m-h1217
      @m-h1217 Před rokem +25

      When people refer to the "old ways" I'm pretty sure they're not referring to the cholera.

    • @derrickthewhite1
      @derrickthewhite1 Před rokem +24

      There is at least one instance of going back and doing something unpleasant intentionally: exercise. Most of us don't need to exercise to fulfill the basics of life... but it improves your health and general quality of life. So people exercise. But they do so in very different ways than the manual labor of their ancestors. I suspect "old ways" are like that: we need to figure out the aspects that are important to health (including mental health) and cultivate those. In some ways its "going back", but it will look very different than the version born of deprivation

  • @gringomoderfoquer8287
    @gringomoderfoquer8287 Před 3 lety +167

    Thanks GCP and comments, now I'm desperately afraid of dying before we find a cure to aging

  • @JustinY.
    @JustinY. Před 6 lety +8909

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

    • @saranna00
      @saranna00 Před 6 lety +653

      You've just compromised the whole mission!

    • @JBanchiere
      @JBanchiere Před 6 lety +142

      Mark Whalberg, is that you?

    • @oredze19
      @oredze19 Před 6 lety +173

      It all makes sense now

    • @olgierdvoneverec4135
      @olgierdvoneverec4135 Před 6 lety +200

      would be a terrible plan (or one that backfired horribly) since we kill and eat/use plants of many species at various stages and our corpses (their harvest) is often old, sick, unusabe (preserved) , cremated, or packed away from plants all together or in small areas such that most plants do not get access to their nutrients.

    • @steinarorstenvik
      @steinarorstenvik Před 6 lety +82

      Honestly, that would be highly ineffective.

  • @randomidiot8977
    @randomidiot8977 Před 6 lety +3008

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

    • @z-man1938
      @z-man1938 Před 6 lety +91

      Random Idiot Logic !

    • @egosomnio
      @egosomnio Před 6 lety +384

      I expect to live forever or die trying, personally.

    • @georgepayne9381
      @georgepayne9381 Před 6 lety +107

      We are all immortal until proven otherwise. Like you said, you haven't died yet, there's no reason that should change, is there?

    • @steve-pose4490
      @steve-pose4490 Před 6 lety +21

      KNOWLEDGE!

    • @theokchannel2081
      @theokchannel2081 Před 6 lety +23

      Makes sense to me

  • @mehmehmeh00
    @mehmehmeh00 Před rokem +151

    Oh drunken me was not ready for this

  • @ihavepermissiontospamracia7794

    A great quote i heard from a show was this
    "Death is something to not be feared, it is a reminder that you only have one"

    • @notdolandark
      @notdolandark Před rokem +47

      I do not fear death, I just want to decide when it happens. Whether that’s in 10 years or 1 million

    • @RhaegarDefense
      @RhaegarDefense Před rokem +4

      @@notdolandark same

  • @Fishbiene
    @Fishbiene Před 4 lety +2470

    Reaper: Come on. You'll like being dead
    Me: that's what they said about being alive

  • @winterfell9990
    @winterfell9990 Před 4 lety +7395

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

    • @significantpepper5274
      @significantpepper5274 Před 4 lety +279

      Well,it was the job of the video so...I guess he completed his objective...?

    • @mystic_spider
      @mystic_spider Před 4 lety +281

      Good, now help work on a cure.

    • @tibiafibiafie
      @tibiafibiafie Před 4 lety +332

      Now I’m actually paranoid that I’m gonna die on my deathbed while watching the broadcast that immortality is a thing now

    • @gibbcharron3469
      @gibbcharron3469 Před 4 lety +127

      @@tibiafibiafie Well, that's exactly why we need as many people as possible working on the problem, so we can make immortality a thing as quickly as possible.

    • @pablotronmf3469
      @pablotronmf3469 Před 4 lety +33

      @@gibbcharron3469 in my country i literally need to get a 9 grade in everything to be able to study bio engineering so im sry but i wont help in your cause

  • @heirofsolaire8396
    @heirofsolaire8396 Před 2 lety +267

    I think a pretty big part of it is that no one wants to live longer when late life is already so full of struggle and hardship due to, as you have clearly said, rot through age. The state in which most find themselves in their late 60s, 70s, 80s, and beyond is miserable. If these fears were extinguished, I believe many would cease to accept death the way we do now.

    • @nitzanshu4695
      @nitzanshu4695 Před rokem

      Yes, currently death is still needed, otherwise more people will be born to poor life which is bad, so until we'll get enough food resources and place for potentially infinity peoples death is still needed

    • @timhorton3231
      @timhorton3231 Před rokem +61

      As Grey said, that's what people *now* say, but when they're actually that 80-year old person, even with aches and inflammation and the overall low quality of their lives, they're *still* terrified of dying (unless they have some deep-seeded beliefs of an afterlife, but even then...).
      Self-preservation is a universal behavior among all living organisms, and that doesn't go away in humans just because a few decades have passed. Old people don't accept death either, we (the younger generations) just tell ourselves that because it makes us feel better.

  • @letsb3nameless665
    @letsb3nameless665 Před 2 lety +137

    if my kids say "isnt nature amazing?" while standing over my hospital bed as im about to die, ill be proud that i raised emotionless and objective monsters

  • @crown0191
    @crown0191 Před 3 lety +1638

    “From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh,
    It disgusted me.”

    • @CommissarChaotic
      @CommissarChaotic Před 3 lety +97

      Ascend and accept the certainty of steel, the Messiah calls upon you.

    • @codeine9386
      @codeine9386 Před 2 lety +18

      r u just a warhammer 40k fan or a real Transhumanist?

    • @codeine9386
      @codeine9386 Před 2 lety +4

      @@CommissarChaotic r u just a warhammer 40k fan or a real Transhumanist?

    • @CommissarChaotic
      @CommissarChaotic Před 2 lety +3

      @@codeine9386 for real, no.

    • @codeine9386
      @codeine9386 Před 2 lety +3

      @@CommissarChaotic why

  • @densecroissant6089
    @densecroissant6089 Před 3 lety +2089

    Imagine robbing a bank and then the one of the clerks you're holding hostage pulls out some flowers and asks you out.

  • @Tuberiascaesar
    @Tuberiascaesar Před 2 lety +39

    From philosophy to sci fi fantasy the search to fight death is often painted bad. Like the fable of the fox and grapes, people devalue and even demonize what they secretly want but can't get, like long life. So for thousands of years, philosophy, religion, nonbelievers, science, science fiction and fantasy, finds all kinds of ways to rationalize the almost stockholme thing we have with the grim reaper.

  • @Valcerv
    @Valcerv Před 2 lety +286

    The sad part is even if we find a way to make humans immortal, your just moving the problem. Even if we developed a way to fix any illness and cure any sudden incident like a cat accident, there's still just so much random bullshit in the universe to kill you. Even if you get past that edge case, the universe will still die eventually.
    Still worth it imo

    • @gunbladeuser19
      @gunbladeuser19 Před 2 lety +9

      Car*

    • @suso6425
      @suso6425 Před 2 lety +59

      Fatal cat accident

    • @bubblegodanimation4915
      @bubblegodanimation4915 Před 2 lety +14

      We do not yet know the true nature of the universe.

    • @duback1209
      @duback1209 Před 2 lety +55

      If "moving the problem" is moving it until the universe ends, I don't think that's a problem we really have to think about

    • @sagestrings869
      @sagestrings869 Před 2 lety +4

      The question are there truly any limits?

  • @paperhat_boi
    @paperhat_boi Před 4 lety +2859

    Imagine dying.
    this comment posted by immortal gang.

  • @curator_of_leptons2857
    @curator_of_leptons2857 Před 5 lety +905

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

  • @tombraiderstrums09
    @tombraiderstrums09 Před 2 lety +80

    Exactly! “Death gives life meaning and happiness” is bullshit. A child has no awareness of death (hopefully), yet they are the happiest of all. They feel secure and calm in the illusion that life will go on forever, filled with toys, loving grandmas, trips to the park, fluffy puppies, and candy. Immortality might definitely bring problems, but a lack of meaning and joy would not be one of them.

    • @alexisgodbout5366
      @alexisgodbout5366 Před rokem +1

      do they know things?

    • @nosferatu3726
      @nosferatu3726 Před rokem +5

      There is no meaning only stimulus and a lack of awareness that creates a need for more stimulus and awareness.

    • @T--------
      @T-------- Před rokem +13

      You are ignoring what death giving life meaning really means though, we enjoy because we have limited time to do so, every action we do has meaning as our limited time gives it value, if you lived for eternity there would be no incentive to ever do anything as you would have an infinite amount of time to do what you want, and that to me isn't meaning

    • @nosferatu3726
      @nosferatu3726 Před rokem +5

      @@T-------- death does not give life meaning, it gives life motivation to keep going.

  • @myusername3689
    @myusername3689 Před rokem +49

    People say no aging will just leave us as babies. WRONG. No maturation will leave us as babies but no aging means no deterioration, not no maturation.

  • @moversti92
    @moversti92 Před 5 lety +1883

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

  • @Jo-ew7lw
    @Jo-ew7lw Před 6 lety +1606

    “If you tortured someone to help them appreciate life, you’d be a monster”
    sorry jigsaw, you’re not helping.

    • @Siegberg91
      @Siegberg91 Před 6 lety +21

      You know what Jigsaw would say if you appreciate him more torture

    • @ambivalentaxe
      @ambivalentaxe Před 6 lety +5

      That is describing my mom oh snap SHE'S HERE
      DFNCJN
      D
      X! C

    • @arhamshahid5015
      @arhamshahid5015 Před 6 lety

      I thought same thing when he said that

    • @tenchimuyo69
      @tenchimuyo69 Před 6 lety +30

      Jigsaw is inconsistent, and has already been shown to give no shit if the victim appreciates life or not.

    • @devinward461
      @devinward461 Před 6 lety +1

      Robert Deffenbaugh That's honestly what some of these comments sound like, as if they actually know what living for thousands of years is like and why it sucks

  • @gabrielc.4906
    @gabrielc.4906 Před 2 lety +24

    Living forever isn't the point. It never was. The point is dying when you want to, and on your own terms. The argument is always "we should/shouldn't live forever", but living forever was never the discussion on the table.

    • @BioTheHuman
      @BioTheHuman Před 2 lety +1

      Immorrality is just physically impossible imo.
      Nothing is immortal, why should we?
      But, being able to live even 150 years without aging? That would he a lot.

    • @pytax9885
      @pytax9885 Před 2 lety

      Death is just the beginning of the actual REAL life ..... (well the best life ever for those who believe in Allah)

  • @spaxio
    @spaxio Před rokem +15

    it's scary to think about people who watched this video and died since

  • @massineben7198
    @massineben7198 Před 5 lety +1443

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

  • @nadie8093
    @nadie8093 Před 3 lety +6307

    Queen Elizabeth is proof inmortality can be reached.

  • @typryor2227
    @typryor2227 Před 2 lety +36

    “If you tortured people to make them better appreciate the pleasures of life, you would be a monster.”
    * Cough cough * Saw * Cough *

  • @wivvledivvle7598
    @wivvledivvle7598 Před 2 lety +21

    Thank you so much for making this, I always feel so alone on this idea when talking to people, thank you for spreading the word.

  • @buggydclown7724
    @buggydclown7724 Před 3 lety +854

    grey: why die?
    death: starts having an existential crisis

    • @jackbright5325
      @jackbright5325 Před 3 lety +3

      You have 600 likes yet no reply? lets make it 601

    • @netherhunter945
      @netherhunter945 Před 2 lety

      excuse me, 820 likes with 1 reply?? time to make that 2

  • @hugo57k91
    @hugo57k91 Před 4 lety +709

    "When do you want to die"
    Me, an Australian: Say the last two words again

    • @cutiepie8887
      @cutiepie8887 Před 4 lety +31

      LMFAO this made me laugh

    • @yiannisroubos8846
      @yiannisroubos8846 Před 4 lety +20

      I’m Australian and I don’t get it ???

    • @huntersuper98
      @huntersuper98 Před 4 lety +84

      @@yiannisroubos8846 Because that's how they tend to say "to day" with their accent. At least that's how I processed it as an American. Was funny af either way lol.

    • @yiannisroubos8846
      @yiannisroubos8846 Před 4 lety +20

      @@huntersuper98 Idk - I'm from South Australia and for us day and die are pronounced differently. Probably an american meme which has no reality to it.

    • @huntersuper98
      @huntersuper98 Před 4 lety +18

      @@yiannisroubos8846 Well from hearing Australians speak at least those with a heavier accent and if I'm interpreting his joke properly another Australian seemed to be on the same page. It's the typical Australian accent we're talking about here and to you who deals with the accent daily or maybe you're in an area that doesn't have as heavy of an accent would seem normal to you. Accents do vary extremely heavily from place to play even within the same country.

  • @max-dy3vs
    @max-dy3vs Před 2 lety +24

    And I thought I'm the only one who finds that death is a bad thing.

  • @mage443
    @mage443 Před 3 lety +133

    Personally I've never encountered this mentality. Neither me nor my parents or anybody I had a conversation with, regarding immortality, said they would opt out if it was an option.

    • @anachronity9002
      @anachronity9002 Před 2 lety +35

      I see it a lot as a theme in movies and other media. It seems very poetic on a movie screen.
      and yet, no actual person I've known or talked to felt this way.

    • @ominous_stranger
      @ominous_stranger Před 2 lety +3

      Wat? No way...

    • @BlockyBookworm
      @BlockyBookworm Před 2 lety +26

      I have. Everyone I talk to feels this way.

    • @anachronity9002
      @anachronity9002 Před 2 lety +32

      @@intimpulliber7376 Wasn't really trying to scare anyone. I've just never personally met any people who wouldn't want to live indefinitely. At least, none that I've had that sort of conversation with.
      But I mean, I especially don't recommend prematurely 'opting out' of life.

    • @Eat_shit--die_mad
      @Eat_shit--die_mad Před 2 lety +6

      There's usually happens because they're trying to explore a conceptual concepts in a given piece of media but they don't want it to be emphasized by the heroes because they wanted to be something external and foreign to them so often times these ideas get assigned to the villains of a story then the questions are villains it ends up being painted in a bad light it's essentially writing something for the sake of drama and story structure over the implications of what your work is actually saying. Science also has a false stereotype of haveing some great cost that defies mortality, that is copy pasted from Frankenstein, and has no basis in how things actually work. Ex penicillin foundation of all modern medicine breakthrough technology of its day is literally made from moldy bread

  • @robertyang4365
    @robertyang4365 Před 4 lety +2347

    1:58
    “Just because a thing is natural doesn’t make it good, or necessary.”
    *Karen with her essential oils would like to know your location*

  • @emiliaskiba6107
    @emiliaskiba6107 Před 5 lety +957

    “If you tortured someone to make them appreciate life more, you are a monster”
    *John Kramer sweats nervously*

  • @hypocriticalcritic6915
    @hypocriticalcritic6915 Před rokem +14

    Grey: WE WILL FIGHT DEATH WITH OUR BARE HANDS
    Collab at the end: So we probably can't beat death

  • @dylanjackson7325
    @dylanjackson7325 Před 2 lety +29

    on the contrary, I sometimes consider that we might be pretending that life is a gift just because we're stuck with it... i'll be glad to not have to go to work any more

    • @kingrollypollyvii5565
      @kingrollypollyvii5565 Před 2 lety

      You don't appreciate life at all. You're a loser who just wants to experience empty pleasures for eternity because you're a child.

  • @diamondinthesky4771
    @diamondinthesky4771 Před 6 lety +520

    In the far future with science it's gonna be like:
    "Why didn't you come to my son's 1,000th birthday party?!"
    "I was busy at my family's 1 million year reunion, okay?!"
    "He was really looking forward to you coming!"
    "He's 1,000 years old! He'll live!"

    • @aname6104
      @aname6104 Před 5 lety +31

      Eternantium how old would you have to be to leave your parents house or drink or marry I think the standards for those things would be hired

    • @h1story643
      @h1story643 Před 5 lety +34

      Damn, sorry bro, can't come to you're 21,000 year old birthday party, gotta go to a date.

    • @geckoo9190
      @geckoo9190 Před 5 lety +6

      Congratulations you made inmortality look bad.

    • @davecirlclux
      @davecirlclux Před 5 lety +19

      When you have infinite life then birthdays wouldn't be celebrated. They would lose value

    • @jknm9110
      @jknm9110 Před 5 lety +12

      @@davecirlcluxLoL. I would probably end up forgetting how old I am

  • @michaelgunawan2319
    @michaelgunawan2319 Před 3 lety +2888

    "If you tortured people to make them better appreciate the pleasures of life, you would be a monster"
    Sad Jigsaw noises

    • @miguelbaltazar7606
      @miguelbaltazar7606 Před 3 lety +6

      *sad Unblock Me game noises*
      btw, i know what that is, i am a gen zed

    • @riz3310
      @riz3310 Před 3 lety +26

      Except until you realize “death” is not a being with a consciousness and will to action, it simply *is*. A necessary component of the evolutionary process of life that clears away the old to make way for the new.

    • @dinglesworld
      @dinglesworld Před 3 lety +17

      @@riz3310 Except until you realize "death" cannot "be", since it isn't...death, like many natural things, is just a human toy, a toy that one day will finally be mass produced and marketed as a bag of cum.

    • @PulzeDevel
      @PulzeDevel Před 3 lety +1

      Poor poor

    • @leang8441
      @leang8441 Před 3 lety +31

      @@riz3310 Not necessary when you can alter genetic information and control evolution.

  • @BrianBellia
    @BrianBellia Před rokem +215

    FINALLY, a video on this subject that does away with all moral posturing and hypocrisy.
    I want to live forever and be forever young - and I want that for everybody else, too.
    Death is not the answer to anything - it's the end of everything.

  • @AmyJayOnTheWay
    @AmyJayOnTheWay Před 6 lety +3350

    This video gave me a weird mix of peace and anxiety. I feel like that means it was a good video.

    • @Jeganello
      @Jeganello Před 6 lety +3

      no.

    • @Trex-or6cd
      @Trex-or6cd Před 6 lety +19

      Jeka why not you may disagree with the message but it's a good video

    • @kanehodder3459
      @kanehodder3459 Před 6 lety +1

      Amy Jay Think the peace part of it comes from the soothing asmr sounds in the background. Disturbingly this combination is used in conditioning...

    • @ninhbac04
      @ninhbac04 Před 6 lety

      I can give you other feelings too

    • @prestigiouscrown6876
      @prestigiouscrown6876 Před 6 lety

      Lame nothing new or original from CZcams

  • @stewie1237
    @stewie1237 Před 3 lety +518

    I always thought of death as some kind of impending doom for us, I never realized that we could be the impending doom for death.

  • @fooltheroyal8691
    @fooltheroyal8691 Před 2 lety +86

    This video makes me feel happier about wanting to live forever when everyone else tells me that it would be horrible.

    • @maskrlzxw6823
      @maskrlzxw6823 Před 2 lety +2

      me too

    • @kingrollypollyvii5565
      @kingrollypollyvii5565 Před 2 lety +6

      The mistakes of mortals only weighs on them for a few years. The mistakes of immortals weighs on them forever.

    • @antinichilista1188
      @antinichilista1188 Před rokem +2

      Thank you for sharing this, the same goes for me!

    • @TheGreatYukon
      @TheGreatYukon Před rokem +37

      ​@@kingrollypollyvii5565 No, it means you have to learn to cope with your mistakes with a method other than dying. You have to actually confront problems.

  • @superpacocaalado7215
    @superpacocaalado7215 Před 2 lety +35

    21 years old and I would love to be around in the year 1 million and even further, health and with all my loved ones and their loved ones.

    • @andy6877
      @andy6877 Před 2 lety +11

      Same, i hope we are young enough that some of these advancements might be able to save us

  • @doomguyjustnotthecoolone2931
    @doomguyjustnotthecoolone2931 Před 4 lety +2881

    As long as humanity exists i want to be there to experience it.

    • @pathetic5036
      @pathetic5036 Před 3 lety +50

      Me toooo

    • @lman2710
      @lman2710 Před 3 lety +55

      Sorry, to experience what? Do you want to take a degree in every uni course possible just to keep up with the "latest news" about research development? Do you want to see how every country evolves economically and/or politically? Do you want to see how technology will evolve in the future (just from a user perspective and not a developer one, I bet), or else? What use could you give to a limitless life? I don't think much, and it is bound to be the same for most of humanity. Me too, obviously

    • @doomguyjustnotthecoolone2931
      @doomguyjustnotthecoolone2931 Před 3 lety +219

      @@lman2710 I honestly don't know man. Maybe just to experience everything. As long as humanity is around new experiences will be available.

    • @VeryPeeved
      @VeryPeeved Před 3 lety +127

      @@lman2710 yes. to all of those things, and more.

    • @Haruki-_
      @Haruki-_ Před 3 lety +6

      Me too

  • @zarathustra7291
    @zarathustra7291 Před 6 lety +2344

    You uploaded this while I was at a funeral.

  • @critixil4486
    @critixil4486 Před 2 lety +2

    I love the collaboration cgp grey! Both channels are my favourites!

  • @randomcat7246
    @randomcat7246 Před 2 lety +8

    This video definitely shows this guy has never thought of suicide legitimately.... and, I’m glad for him.

  • @Hekkle01
    @Hekkle01 Před 6 lety +2574

    “When do you want to die”
    Billions of edgy 12 year olds: “Now!”

  • @portella6493
    @portella6493 Před 3 lety +1520

    I cannot imagine not existing, so it is scary. Not knowing if I existed before, or how many times I existed, or do I even exist now gives me panic attacks.

    • @idiosyncraticlawyer3400
      @idiosyncraticlawyer3400 Před 3 lety +143

      Empathetically affirmed. "I fear death" are not the words of a coward, but only those of a hero.

    • @Hyeoreo
      @Hyeoreo Před 3 lety +137

      Same. Most of the time, I stare at nothing, and stay there, thinking about this for a long time.
      Have I ever existed before?
      If I die, will I be reborn into a new person?
      Is this a only one time life?
      If I die, what will happend to me? Become insect? Become none existent?
      Oh I need answer.

    • @hishamaziz764
      @hishamaziz764 Před 3 lety +8

      @@Hyeoreo Islam will give you that answer my friend

    • @Hyeoreo
      @Hyeoreo Před 3 lety +70

      @@hishamaziz764 wosnwisjs sorry I'm christian 😳
      But I also don't really believe in my own religion tho

    • @hishamaziz764
      @hishamaziz764 Před 3 lety +9

      @@Hyeoreo Ah okay then, well, there is your answer to the question of why you don't have your answer.

  • @dogenasus1717
    @dogenasus1717 Před 3 lety +44

    I know this is old but it really bothers me how people are misunderstanding what Grey has to say.
    He isn't saying "Just don't die bro".
    He is saying we should part with the mentality that desth is inevitable. In doing so we can focus on finding actual immortality. Do we all die? Yes. But if we can find a way to live longer, why shouldn't we take it. If you want to die so bad there will always be euthanasia, something that will probably become more common place in a society of immortals.

    • @kingrollypollyvii5565
      @kingrollypollyvii5565 Před 2 lety +9

      It's the viewpoint of a selfish child. Death is a balance to life. The end of one is the beginning of another.

    • @ly-dw3vk
      @ly-dw3vk Před 2 lety +1

      @@kingrollypollyvii5565 Or your view is the viewpoint of a naive suicidal

    • @blackjoker2345
      @blackjoker2345 Před rokem +25

      @@kingrollypollyvii5565 OR viewing death as necessary is the view of a Stockholm Syndrome riddled abuse victim trying to justify their partner's inexcusable behavior.
      Human Death isn't necessary for happiness or fulfillment. It's not necessary to advancing humanity. It's just not necessary period.

    • @kingrollypollyvii5565
      @kingrollypollyvii5565 Před rokem +9

      @@blackjoker2345 You're definitely 14-16. Also, it literally is necessary for all those things to exist.

    • @blackjoker2345
      @blackjoker2345 Před rokem

      @@kingrollypollyvii5565 I'm 32 you pedantic ass. I'm also a PHD in biology(cellular biology to be specific), so I think I know a bit more about how life and death work than you do.

  • @reubenrichardson4669
    @reubenrichardson4669 Před 2 lety +2

    This is probably my favourite video of all time. Probably beyond the medium of 'video' it has to be my favourite text of all time. This message needs to be spread.

  • @Buenomars
    @Buenomars Před 6 lety +649

    Reaper nerf incoming.

  • @James-qd3mw
    @James-qd3mw Před 6 lety +197

    I wonder how many people statistically died a few days or less after watching this video.

    • @animax2422
      @animax2422 Před 5 lety +8

      @ The matrix is real..

    • @Tennishangman
      @Tennishangman Před 5 lety +17

      133 ish per day if the people were of random ages. Given the target demographic is probably almost entirely 13-40, more like 3 per day (age plays a huge part in your odds of dying, just look at life insurance costs). So, if you give a week after watching as your threshold, then a rough estimate of 20 people died in that period.

    • @bertverwoerd
      @bertverwoerd Před 5 lety +8

      The answer is 42.
      If CGPGrey's average viewer is 25 years old, their chances of dying within a year are 0.13%. 4,000,000 viewers times .13 = 5200 dead viewers within a year. If you define 'a few days' as three days, then 3/365*5200 = 42 viewers dying within 3 days of watching this video.

    • @Thrlta
      @Thrlta Před 5 lety

      Isn't that funny

    • @linusschanreitner5825
      @linusschanreitner5825 Před 5 lety +1

      @@bertverwoerd jawohl!

  • @thedude6405
    @thedude6405 Před rokem +48

    I started to think about life and death back in kindergarten, watching cartoon, hero was killed by monster, lying in complete darkness. Then I close my eyes, hold ears, imagine being dead, that nothingness really creeps me out.
    Lost my grandpa in 3rd grade, other grandparents before high school, lost my grandma before graduate.
    Death is scary, but sometime life is painful. It's a dilemma, a puzzle I could never solve.
    Maybe people will be nicer to each other when human beings are immortal.

    • @Martin-kn1cn
      @Martin-kn1cn Před rokem +10

      It just won’t go in my head how (and let’s not talk about religion) life just stops and everything comes to an end.
      It’s impossible for me to imagine that you won’t experience anything for eternity.
      “It’s like sleeping and never waking up”
      But that doesn’t go with me either because then everything you did, everything that you experienced, everything that you were won’t matter because you won’t remember anything until the end of time.
      It’s just not possible for me to imagine that I won’t feel anything for eternity. I simply cannot imagine that everything I now feel and know will be gone forever.

    • @genghiskhan5701
      @genghiskhan5701 Před rokem

      @Elias Rivera
      Atheism is pretty flawed as it operates in Metaphysical logic used in Abrahamic Religions.
      I pretty much assume some all powerful Creator exists and fiddles stuff and an Afterlife exists both of which aren't really far fetched as scientists like to float around thoeries like Type Omega Civilizations and the Multiverse

    • @Rick-lq3xo
      @Rick-lq3xo Před rokem +2

      @@genghiskhan5701 Those arent theories, those are hypotheses, ideas that are unproven, in reality, you dont need a creator for the universe to be as it is, a creator must be eternal to create the universe an not suffer the same issue of "what was its origin" it mustve never began and never started, atheism cuts out the middle man and concludes the universe (matter. energy, phsyics) are eternal and hav always been there, conservation of mass/energy also supports this.

  • @musictheme6625
    @musictheme6625 Před rokem +3

    The tone gave me chills, a tinkling sensation in the heart.

  • @brickmastere5535
    @brickmastere5535 Před 3 lety +376

    this was the most ambitious crossover in cinema history

  • @steverman2312
    @steverman2312 Před 5 lety +421

    this video: *exists*
    people who experience existential crisis: *_aww shit, here we go again_*

  • @catherinebirch2399
    @catherinebirch2399 Před rokem +14

    I wish that sciencewould hurry up and find accuracy of aging. I'm not looking forward to a future of slow decay.

    • @cuaizer5906
      @cuaizer5906 Před rokem

      That why you and all the intrested work on itto hury up the progress

  • @justyourfriendlyneighborho903

    I'm glad someone else thinks that the idea of death being a great thing borderline absurd. I'd want to see human progress. The only problem is overpopulation but we might soon start to colonize other planets

    • @jaydale3814
      @jaydale3814 Před 2 lety +3

      I'd say sterilising immortal people, or putting a cap on how many kids they can have may combat that (or... *cough* mass murder *cough* )

    • @Tankirb
      @Tankirb Před 2 lety +3

      @@jaydale3814 well the murder option just sounds like death with extra steps

    • @justyourfriendlyneighborho903
      @justyourfriendlyneighborho903 Před 2 lety +1

      @@jaydale3814 or the hunger games

    • @obj_obj
      @obj_obj Před 2 lety

      Just have infinite required birth control

    • @ly-dw3vk
      @ly-dw3vk Před 2 lety +1

      We actually don't have enough babies to sustain our population in 1st world countries. Hopefully we get to mars before we have overpopulation after we fix this problem.

  • @candycorn6268
    @candycorn6268 Před 4 lety +455

    After watching this video I have decided not to die

    • @user_hat
      @user_hat Před 3 lety +11

      I'm not gonna go to my death

    • @aa2339
      @aa2339 Před 3 lety +8

      If you ever suceeded, please tell us about it.

    • @JimBob4233
      @JimBob4233 Před 3 lety +3

      I'll meet you in a hundred years, then, Candy Corn, and see if you have changed your mind.

    • @thetravelingwormhole9306
      @thetravelingwormhole9306 Před 3 lety

      @@JimBob4233 he didn't

    • @JimBob4233
      @JimBob4233 Před 3 lety

      @@thetravelingwormhole9306 Didn't what?

  • @thatonesomeone0551
    @thatonesomeone0551 Před 5 lety +414

    "IF YOU TORTURE SOMEONE TO MAKE THEM APPRECIEATE LIFE BETTER YOU ARE A MONSTET"
    *SAW PLOT IN A NUTSHELL*

  • @Eat_shit--die_mad
    @Eat_shit--die_mad Před 2 lety +26

    Thank you for making this video I felt like I'm going crazy trying to read things online about this topic because this is the way I feel about it, people are seriously attached to their current understanding of life, it bothers me

  • @kart2542
    @kart2542 Před 2 lety +11

    The "Isn't nature amazing?" At 2:01 killed me

  • @AngleofJoy
    @AngleofJoy Před 6 lety +150

    as my Father always told me and something that I always held dear since I was very young, "I'm going to live forever or die trying".

  • @plaguecrow754
    @plaguecrow754 Před 3 lety +168

    The kurgezat video:doesnt give me an internal crisis
    CGP grey:and i took that personally

  • @citroxx6126
    @citroxx6126 Před 2 lety

    Aaaaaa so awesome! I wasn't expecting to hear/see Kurzgesagt here!

  • @Twisted_Code
    @Twisted_Code Před 2 lety +4

    the music as you talk about our Stockholm syndrome w/ Old Grim was great... reminded me a bit of the insanity ambience from Don't Starve/Together

  • @octodog5907
    @octodog5907 Před 3 lety +292

    This video was why I am now in college for Biomedical Engineering.
    I want to help make the change.

    • @Mark-se4dr
      @Mark-se4dr Před 2 lety +10

      I'm also looking into it to see how I can help. I mean, I'm just a college Mechanical Engineering major, but hopefully I can contribute something useful.

    • @user-es4lp3kp2w
      @user-es4lp3kp2w Před 2 lety +13

      this comment section is encouraging. thinking about dipping my toes into the field myself.

    • @dansands8140
      @dansands8140 Před 2 lety +5

      Enjoy learning about proteins and how they're God's perverted 900-sided rubik's cubes, not just food. And then give up and leave it to AI. Totally not speaking from experience, nope.

    • @user-es4lp3kp2w
      @user-es4lp3kp2w Před 2 lety

      @@quinnsmith8421 just checked out that site. very awesome!!!! 🤠

    • @nzx.
      @nzx. Před 2 lety +5

      Me too! I just enrolled in a biotech degree, cheers!

  • @boilersoun1076
    @boilersoun1076 Před 5 lety +443

    CGP: -Explains why we're able to get rid of death-
    Kurzgesagt, 3 seconds later: DEATH IS ALL POWERFUL

    • @sulljoh1
      @sulljoh1 Před 5 lety +7

      Yeah WTF Kurzgesagt?

    • @Idalb0e
      @Idalb0e Před 4 lety +38

      I think what he means is that while we may be able to make ourselves immortal, we cannot make ourselves *invincible*. We can make it so that we don't die from just existing, and live as long as nothing actively kills us, but that said there will always be thinks that can kill us. So even if we never age, there is a good chance that we will all eventually die either by choice or by accident.

    • @seol3075
      @seol3075 Před 4 lety +1

      idk how to put lines through words plz teach me/ tell me how
      ( i mean typed words i'm not that dumb)

    • @TriceRiel
      @TriceRiel Před 4 lety +6

      CGP talks about the Reaper of Age, not death itself.

    • @chaddrake2782
      @chaddrake2782 Před 4 lety +3

      Even if you stop aging entirely, life expectancy is still less than 10 thousand years, which while a *long ass time* is not immortality. Thats the mathematical period of time before you are almost 100% guaranteed to have died by violence or accident. Of course, there will always be those who beat the odds one way or another, but thats the average we can expect.

  • @JustinMinnaar
    @JustinMinnaar Před 2 lety +5

    The best summary of the problem of death I've seen online.

  • @legionluciano
    @legionluciano Před 2 lety +4

    The CGP / Kurzgesagt symbiosis is adorable and I'm here for it.

  • @diamondinthesky4771
    @diamondinthesky4771 Před 5 lety +381

    THIS JUST IN:
    Grim Reaper now Jobless, seeking employment
    ^ Would totally be the best headline ever.

    • @theawkwardskeleton6608
      @theawkwardskeleton6608 Před 5 lety +4

      Plants and animals still exist

    • @diamondinthesky4771
      @diamondinthesky4771 Před 5 lety +27

      @@theawkwardskeleton6608
      "THIS JUST IN: Technically Grim is still employed, just making less money than he did before"

    • @danielgalef994
      @danielgalef994 Před 5 lety +5

      You might like the book "Reaper Man." It's a fantasy novel about the Grim Reaper jobless and seeking employment.

    • @aetherresonant9079
      @aetherresonant9079 Před 4 lety +1

      Homicide. As long as humans exist, they're gonna fuckin kill each other.

    • @bigwijdsljla
      @bigwijdsljla Před 4 lety +13

      "Millennials are killing the killing industry!!"

  • @Dragonnaurion
    @Dragonnaurion Před 3 lety +764

    1:37 "the world contains pain and death"
    *New Zealand is not on the map*
    *I WILL LIVE FOREVER*

    • @thebelen2359
      @thebelen2359 Před 3 lety +30

      Lmao. I'm moving to New Zeland.

    • @jah5886
      @jah5886 Před 3 lety +5

      Medic: that's not what I meant

    • @Nekaelia
      @Nekaelia Před 3 lety +6

      r/mapswithoutnewzealand

    • @jermfanaccount
      @jermfanaccount Před 3 lety

      that means my best friend will be okay,, am so happy, ,

    • @omeven5785
      @omeven5785 Před 3 lety +1

      @@jah5886 it just means we''re not filled with tumors !

  • @jaredsalas1511
    @jaredsalas1511 Před 2 lety +33

    "If you torture people to make them better appreciate the pleasures of life, you would be a monster"
    Jigsaw: *whistles*

  • @Euvonix
    @Euvonix Před 3 lety +5

    My teacher played this video in class, you have earned an english teacher’s approval👍

  • @whorepet
    @whorepet Před 5 lety +1032

    Oh wow this is the first time I find someone who doesn't shy away from saying he'd like to be immortal. Stay against death, please!

    • @Vajsmilan
      @Vajsmilan Před 5 lety +21

      Yes finally!

    • @logan4002
      @logan4002 Před 5 lety +31

      Actually it would be really bad for us humans, cause we could give birth to children and they would do so. The problem is our resources which even now are not really enough, imagine what would happen if more people would be born and no one would die. Birth and death are life itself like timespace continuity, it can't exist one without another, so people accept death even if it hurt's to lose our loved ones. P. S. If any of you saw the latest Avengers movie, then you'll know what I talk about,and by the way I don't consider Thanos the bad guy in the MOVIE cause he wanted indeed to kill people, but his intentions were good, to kill 50% of the population randomly nothing personal. I think he's actually the good guy of the movie.

    • @kevinplayscello_
      @kevinplayscello_ Před 5 lety +8

      logan4002 It does seem hard to face but you are completely correct

    • @rosellecarmen2224
      @rosellecarmen2224 Před 5 lety +104

      @@logan4002 aka, overpopulation is the justification of people dying. That's no different from saying that murder is not a crime.
      So why not stop giving birth? The ideology of procreation is to continue the survival of the human species. If survival is guaranteed, then procreation isn't necessary.
      Your understanding of resources is limited to this planet. Although you're wrong, it's unfortunate that most people think like you.

    • @logan4002
      @logan4002 Před 5 lety +3

      @@rosellecarmen2224 Well that's your point of view. I only did said the real facts, what you say could be true but there is that IF like you mentioned it. So from a certain point of view (Hello there Obi Wan quote) I am right.

  • @rapidkai51423
    @rapidkai51423 Před 6 lety +806

    The immortal generation is already here, after all...
    There's no letter after Z

  • @ondrejprasil1958
    @ondrejprasil1958 Před 2 lety +7

    Even if such a drug is to be made, I doubt most of the populace will see a drop of it. The world's oligarchs and richest will not allow it to fall into the hands of the average citizen.

  • @justmeh6390
    @justmeh6390 Před 2 lety +25

    I tried explaining this to my friends. But they just said the typical "It will get boring" "there will be nothing to do!". Wow that's so fun to feel pain every time you step.

    • @primetime3422
      @primetime3422 Před 2 lety +8

      Space is endless

    • @pytax9885
      @pytax9885 Před 2 lety

      Death is just the beginning of the actual REAL life ..... (well the best life ever for those who believe in Allah)

  • @thecitizenbrain6152
    @thecitizenbrain6152 Před 6 lety +742

    My plan is much simpler: live forever through sheer willpower.

    • @AR-dr1sb
      @AR-dr1sb Před 6 lety +26

      good luck :v

    • @devildarlin1364
      @devildarlin1364 Před 6 lety

      i'm the cancerous fandom guy who's gonna make a reference you all hate having to do with this comment.

    • @zeddy5085
      @zeddy5085 Před 6 lety +1

      Just say no to the reaper. I like that idea....

    • @bjaminm428
      @bjaminm428 Před 6 lety +1

      The Citizen Brain so far, so good

    • @Zero11s
      @Zero11s Před 6 lety +2

      let's see how your willpower stands up against excruciating pain

  • @hunter5643.
    @hunter5643. Před 5 lety +320

    Title: Why Die?
    Well we did it boys. Dying is no more.

    • @bugjams
      @bugjams Před 4 lety +6

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

    • @EurasianInvasion
      @EurasianInvasion Před 4 lety +2

      You are now the CEO of Health

    • @blunderbus2695
      @blunderbus2695 Před 4 lety

      Mortality rates for everything drop to 0% across the world

  • @minecrafttroller5980
    @minecrafttroller5980 Před 2 lety +3

    thanks cgp you've made me fear death again

  • @giammi56
    @giammi56 Před 3 lety +47

    Death and sufference are two separate things. I agree that seeking pain as meaning of life is absurd, but refusing to die is just fear of the unknown.

    • @captnsnackbeard6898
      @captnsnackbeard6898 Před 2 lety +14

      I disagree. Is being afraid of torture being afraid of the unknown just because i havent been tortured yet?

    • @bubblegodanimation4915
      @bubblegodanimation4915 Před 2 lety +1

      Would you like to go to North Korea?

    • @Aiasmor
      @Aiasmor Před 2 lety +8

      @@captnsnackbeard6898 But you contradicted yourself. If you know torture if coming, it is only natural to avoid it. Nobody knows what happens after death. The only comparable thing is sleeping a dreamless sleep. Are you afraid to go to sleep?

    • @kingrollypollyvii5565
      @kingrollypollyvii5565 Před 2 lety +4

      @@captnsnackbeard6898 Death isn't torture though.

    • @Anonymous-df8it
      @Anonymous-df8it Před 2 lety +7

      @@Aiasmor No, because I know I'll wake up in the morning.

  • @arturoreyescortez2476
    @arturoreyescortez2476 Před 6 lety +162

    No healthy person wants to die. The only reason we want to die when we get old or sick is because of the pain caused by diseases, including mental ones like depression.

    • @emberrr44
      @emberrr44 Před 6 lety

      Mee

    • @xLOKIx0830
      @xLOKIx0830 Před 6 lety +36

      I think it's important to realize not everyone who considers death does so because they are in pain or are depressed. Some people, like myself, just don't value life as much as others do. Value is subjective, after all. Some people hate the way society functions and have no desire to participate in it. Some people get overcome with debt and don't want to see themselves become slaves for the rest of their lives trying to pay it off. Some people die for the sake of others. Some people die for pride and honor. Some people choose death because the thought of living forever scares them more than death. Some people find the thought of death comforting.
      Suicide isn't so black and white. Why do you think the highest suicide rates happen in the wealthiest places with the highest overall standard of living?

    • @pappydaddy77
      @pappydaddy77 Před 6 lety +2

      Loki AMV
      Nigaa, you sound like the type of guy to keep a gold olated AK in your backpack at all times so when the moment hits you can live through your GTA 5 military base raid IRL. I feel bad for you, and that you actually think ending your own existence out of some pathetic sense of loathing tophose around you will solve ANYTHING. "Nobody's killing me but me!!"
      Grey argues here that the idea that eternal rotting blackness is not healthy for anyone. That this mindset is just the traces of our ancestor's superstitious philosophy to make something, so close and omnipresent, appear less threatening.
      "I died for something", a soldier says. Yes along with the other 1,000,000. You were on the losing side and in the end the onoy thing remembered about you will be your name and name alone. Your personality, faults and fears will die along with you.

    • @troopydo
      @troopydo Před 6 lety +1

      Fuck that I don't want to live forever. Imagine having the body of a 35 year old for all of eternity until the earth dies. You could only dream about retiring then. If there ever is a cure for aging, large company's, governments, capitalism is going to fuck everyone over so hard, everyone voluntarily throws themselves off a bridge.

    • @guerillachan20
      @guerillachan20 Před 6 lety +1

      Arturo Reyes Cortez
      Everyone dies get over it you want to put your hopes on junk science go ahead.
      The fact remains that greatest human minds will never solve death if they cant even cure simple disease like diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, cancer.
      Your pharaohs today are in digital form promising better future but alternative is more likely. When people turn away from God they lose connection with reality.

  • @nschwartz311
    @nschwartz311 Před 6 lety +184

    Video: “When do you want to die”
    Me: **looking at my GPA** “right now, riGHT FUCKING NOW KILL ME RIGHT NOW DO IT RIG-”

    • @CadetGriffin
      @CadetGriffin Před 6 lety

      What's a GPA?

    • @adre76
      @adre76 Před 6 lety +1

      College grades

    • @nschwartz311
      @nschwartz311 Před 6 lety +3

      My GPA isn’t even that bad rn it’s like a 3.33 but this bio class man...that shits gunna tank it

    • @nschwartz311
      @nschwartz311 Před 6 lety

      edric maglalang yeah college. I’m in my second year so if this class does tank my GPA I’ll still have time to bring it back up which is good since I do plan on going to graduate school for my masters in clinical counseling

    • @alexr1101
      @alexr1101 Před 6 lety

      Jacob Griffin it means grade point average. All your grades averaged out, somehow coming to the number 4

  • @vennjylugo7434
    @vennjylugo7434 Před rokem +1

    excellent reasoning, great video, subscribed.

  • @TravisRichey
    @TravisRichey Před 2 lety +1

    Wow, you definitely have a perspective. I love it.
    Oh! And a crossover?!? Love that too!
    ~Trav

  • @nicholaskotlarczyk9083
    @nicholaskotlarczyk9083 Před 6 lety +160

    Don't take life so serious. You won't get out of it alive.

    • @jasonpeng5798
      @jasonpeng5798 Před 6 lety +1

      Nicholas Kotlarczyk lol

    • @nicholaskotlarczyk9083
      @nicholaskotlarczyk9083 Před 6 lety +5

      FlurryOfStyx that's what I'm saying. Some people don't like to have fun. I just think you misinterpreted what I said.

    • @takuansoho5836
      @takuansoho5836 Před 6 lety +1

      Haha ! Watch me !

    • @Brisbae
      @Brisbae Před 6 lety

      FlurryOfStyx It’s the internet, a place where these sorts of people hang out. Makes sense, right?

    • @takuansoho5836
      @takuansoho5836 Před 6 lety +5

      +FlurryOfStyx
      Of course we are here for a reason, like every life ever created, we're here to pass our genetic material for future generations and fertilize the ground when we die !
      We are vehicules, the problem of intelligence is that give you the illusion to be the driver.

  • @Jesteresque20
    @Jesteresque20 Před 3 lety +1662

    I think it's perfectly natural to want to live forever, or at least have that option. It's just not an option I want for myself

    • @quaza2001
      @quaza2001 Před 2 lety +76

      Immortality is bad, it would make people go crazy

    • @justskiddingaround-idontkn7519
      @justskiddingaround-idontkn7519 Před 2 lety +345

      It’s not about living forever. It’s about living until we’re ready to go. Curing the process of age doesn’t mean we will no longer die it just means we’ll attain greater control over when and how we die.

    • @cia5530
      @cia5530 Před 2 lety +20

      Imagine how bored you will get
      Edit was a spelling error

    • @raife9700
      @raife9700 Před 2 lety +60

      I would love to live forever

    • @Stardustabyss8365
      @Stardustabyss8365 Před 2 lety +20

      @@raife9700 entropy:hold my cold glass of water

  • @nuclearocean
    @nuclearocean Před rokem +1

    This video and its sibling from Kurzgesagt are what drives me to live my life. Hopefully it will be as long as I wish it to be

  • @adarshthoduvakkal4495
    @adarshthoduvakkal4495 Před 2 lety +2

    the amount of times ive tried to debate against people using these points and it always ends in the other person spamming gifs, creating argumentative fallacies and blah and im written off as insane..

  • @showcase0525
    @showcase0525 Před 6 lety +776

    "Death is not the solution to future problems imagined."
    Powerful anti suicide statement there.

    • @randjan8592
      @randjan8592 Před 6 lety +40

      To be honest, I always thought of that, but I would rather commit suicide, than work for 50 years just to die and lose everything I struggled to create...

    • @coolgamer936132
      @coolgamer936132 Před 6 lety +58

      not really, considering people don't generally commit suicide as a solution to future problems, they do it as a solution to their current situation, in the now.

    • @inquisitorMence
      @inquisitorMence Před 6 lety +13

      No. That kind of failure to understand what the problem is seems more likely to reinforce thoughts of suicide that alleviate them, to me.

    • @showcase0525
      @showcase0525 Před 6 lety +1

      This doesn't seem like a quote countering the reasons why. It does look to try and counter the effect of the resulting action, being death via suicide. Its not saying you shouldn't be sad/angry/etc, at least how i read it.

    • @ehdollet9641
      @ehdollet9641 Před 6 lety +1

      Randjan Yes but you don’t die and think; “huh, I’m dead now, everything was pointless” it happens like this; *deletes this comment before posting*
      Now you see, it existed, it was a real thing but now it’s gone and you never knew it existed and had no way of knowing. You should work those 50 years because everything you worked towards will fall apart but you won’t know it did, you won’t know you built something up. You won’t even know that you don’t know these things because you are dead.
      This doesn’t make sense but I have typed this 3 times so far. I would delete this but it will only show my point to myself as you don’t know this existed as of me typing this...lol.