Also, the fear of death lessens. That may be a blessing nature has for us - and yes, I don`t want to die and I DO want SENS and all this to succeed in my lifetime very badly, nonetheless I find it a comfort that death becomes a lot less scary (as a rule - no rule without exceptions...) when you get older.
I've been thinking about it lately, and I have a hunch that in my case this might be exactly the opposite actually. Because right now, my only line of defense ( psychologically ) is that it's still far away with all probability, I am 25, but when I get to 40 something, things might be a bit different. I don't mean right now the good classical mid - life crisis.
I'm freightened that I might get genuine mental problems, when hitting middle age, and it's not like any psychoterapy could help here really, because psychologists seem to be ( in large ) very much into the New Age blah blah with stuff like : "death is the most natural thing in the world", "everything has its beginning and its end", "you can't have the day without the night" etc., generally denialistic bullcrap. And the case of death anxiety is very rational in fact, unlike probably most other anxieties. Actually isn't the fear of death the most rational thing under the sun? Yet no one ( outside maybe us ) will admit this, that's the price people have to pay for psychological comfort - big time denial.
Edited by chris w, 17 May 2010 - 01:22 PM.