Редактирование: Deathism (раздел)

== Transhumanist views ==
=== Historical ===
Transhumanists have collectively used the term 'deathism' to critique 'the set of beliefs and attitudes which glorifies or accepts death and rejects or despises immortality' since [[Max More]] compiled a list of [[Extropy Neologisms]] in 1994.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20010820143906/http://extropy.com:80/neologo.htm</ref>

<blockquote>Apparently there are [[humanism|humanists]] who felt some dissatisfaction with the rather comfortable nature of modern humanism. And the other half were very dug in on 'no, death is good for us' or 'death is natural' and just by its meaning we need to accept these limits. So I think it's interesting that humanists that can be quite strongly and explicitly atheistic, can actually agree quite strongly with most religious people in defending the idea that death is a good thing, a part of human nature and it should stay that way  - [[Max More]]<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giO9QiGQI6Y Max More - Transhumanism and Virtue]</ref></blockquote>

* '''ASIMORT''': (a) A dead science fiction writer. (b) A dead secular humanist. (c) Any person who believes it to be their duty to die to "make room" for future generations. [ [[Mark Plus]], April 1992]<ref>[[Extropy Neologisms]]</ref>

* '''EPHEMERALISTS''': Persons who reject immortalist technology and values (the result of deathist thinking). [MM, 1990, from "Ephemeral", Robert A. Heinlein, 1958] 

=== Contemporary ===
[[Aubrey de Grey]] has characterised dominant social attitudes to death as a 'pro-aging trance'.<ref>[https://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/12/03/aubrey-de-grey/old-people-are-people-too-why-it-our-duty-fight-aging-death Old People Are People Too: Why It Is Our Duty to Fight Aging to the Death]</ref>

[[Anders Sandberg]] likens the destruction of wisdom, knowledge and experiences caused by that of a [[The Burning Library|Burning Library]]<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfTqXL0d9Ls Quest for immortality]</ref>