X-Message-Number: 33008
Subject: Re: older people happier?
From: David Stodolsky <>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 12:18:42 +0200
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On 30 Oct 2010, at 11:00 AM, CryoNet wrote:
> 
> David Stodolsky writes: "We know that older people are on the whole
> happier. Whether this is genetically programmed or not isn't clear.
> However, they don't stop fearing death, they just stop thinking about
> it."
> 
> Wow. Huge generalizations without any supporting source.

Still haven't done your homework? :-)

Try this as a starting point for some theoretical background:

http://cosmism.blogspot.com/2010/05/existentialism-today-terror-management.html


> And totally
> opposite to my personal experience and the experience of people I know
> who are over 60 (cryonicists and noncryonicists alike). They (we)
> think about death a LOT more, because every little thing that you can
> no longer do so easily is a reminder of it. It's like being in a
> slowly shrinking box. Even my father, from a totally different
> generation, felt this way.


The idea that cryonicists and their associates can serve as a representative 
sample on this issue is amusing, to say the least.


> Some elderly people may become resigned to their fate, but I have
> never met any. Of course some people may _say_ they have resigned
> themselves, but I don't believe them. 

Your typically open-minded approach to any facts that you disagree with :-)


dss

David Stodolsky
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