This is about Banks's The Culture series, but doesn't really contain spoilers. Within The Culture it is established that biological humans are nigh-immortal, but that nearly all humans eventually choose suicide after several centuries of life. When I first heard this I thought it was just typical Deathist BS. The same "Ho ho, living forever is terrible, no one would want to do it unless they're an evil villain" crap we usually get. I failed in properly giving Banks the benefit of the doubt. (In my defense, I didn't know anything about him yet, knowing only how immortality is portrayed by mainstream media).
On Being Needed
On Being Needed
On Being Needed
This is about Banks's The Culture series, but doesn't really contain spoilers. Within The Culture it is established that biological humans are nigh-immortal, but that nearly all humans eventually choose suicide after several centuries of life. When I first heard this I thought it was just typical Deathist BS. The same "Ho ho, living forever is terrible, no one would want to do it unless they're an evil villain" crap we usually get. I failed in properly giving Banks the benefit of the doubt. (In my defense, I didn't know anything about him yet, knowing only how immortality is portrayed by mainstream media).