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  • Obviously, there are powerful reptilian forces in the Pentagon and the Kremlin; and in the pulpits of churches, mosques, and synagogues, where deathist dogmas of judgment, punishment, self-denial, martyrdom, and afterlife supremacy are preached.

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • Assuming that medical technology which can keep us alive indefinitely can also keep us young and healthy, and is widely available, I would absolutely go for it -- and deathist protestations aside, so would most people.

    Live forever? No thanks 2009

  • Extreme fringe variants of the environmentalist death cult really do stand for the complete destruction of humanity, but even supposedly reasonable, middle of the road people are influenced by deathist environmentalism to the point at which it is seen as reasonable to say that (a) too many people exist, and therefore (b) the

    Fight Aging! 2009

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