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RE: The problem with death positivists
All I see is groups of people labeling other groups of people, and believing that each member of each group is exactly the same and can only see things as black or white. Sad.
Deathism is a particular ideology that I believe should be resisted with all possible means - yes, it's a group of people who share that ideology, and yes i'm making blanket statements about that group - but that's because the ideology itself is a dangerous one.
When I say it is a dangerous ideology I mean that quite literally. The spread of deathism in popular culture directly impedes campaigns to fund aging research and life extension in general and the more we delay a cure for aging the more people will die as a result.
The death positive movement is on paper a good thing based on the stated definition, but in reality it attracts and helps to promote deathism, and that is the problem I am talking about in this post.