> Death is necessary part of life.

Death is inevitable maybe, but whether it's necessary is a philosophical question without a satisfying answer.

I like the allegory of the Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYNADOHhVY

I'll try to justify that it's more sad to us than the death of the great minds past because we shared this beautiful world with a contemporary, and now we don't anymore. The most obvious possibility for direct contact is now gone.

As for the necessity of death... Plenty of sibling and nephew/niece comments say it's essentially unavoidable and necessary, others say some set of human beings could do something brilliant that would pull us out of it one day. I'd actually say both perspectives capture something important. The pragmatic knowledge of our unavoidable expiration is worth living with, and the hope to overturn death and despair is worth living for.

One metaphor for how this life feels might be that we find ourselves in a testing chamber, being asked questions about the test we're writing, for which we could not study. The good news is, it's an open book test, and we've got many years to write our answers! ...But, then the textbooks contradict each other almost as often as they agree on some important point. Every once in a while it seems as if an invigilator calls someone off, and invites another person into their seat. Also, occasionally, fistfights break out over which textbook you ought to be reading from.

It is today, but doesn’t have to be: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aSQy7yHj6nPD44RNo/how-to-see...

Hopefully we’ll fix it one day.

Be careful what you wish for.

Read this, from someone who's thought about it a bit more deeply than Mr Yudkowsky.

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

Even if the wildest dreams of transhumanists come true, that would not be the permanent abolition of death, merely postponing the inevitable. With every passing millennia, the odds of dying by accident or homicide would only grow. Even supposing mind uploading works - that strategy might keep you safe from accidents, but eventually you’ll die in the heat death of the universe. Schemes proposed to beat that are so extremely speculative-they are no more believable than religious afterlife claims (maybe even less so). Entropy always wins in the end-with the possible exception of unimaginably long timescales-eventually, maybe, we’ll all be resurrected as Boltzmann brains, or endure this exact life repeating an infinite number of times without change (Nietzsche, meet Poincaré). But odds are you’ll die long before that. Or our simulators will get bored with us, and turn this universe off.