Accepting Death & Adult Responsibility

Here's a couple of assumptions:You are somehow ultimately physical in nature. You are your body, or you are inside your body, or your body is inside you, or you possess a body.You can avoid death. Claim: If you attach to either of these positions, that is suffering. What more, if you attach with violent fervor, you will kill in order to preserve your position. This results in more suffering.If you're unwilling to question these assumptions, then this post is not for you. I'm not available for discussing these matters with fundamentalists. I know it is a waste of time. LessWrong / EA is full of very compassionate people. I am deeply touched by, in particular, Eliezer's compassion, but also that of Anna Salamon, Nate Soares, Duncan Sabien, Andrew Critch, Davidad, and others. Part of the compassion I see among some rationalists / EAs manifests as a war against death. This post is for those people who are tired of fighting an endless war against death.To be tired of this fight, you must first have been initiated into the horror of death to begin with. It cannot be a distant dream to you ("Cancer is what happens to other people"). No, death is personal; it is maddeningly, outrageously tragic. If you don't deeply know this, then you may be in a pre-tragic state of mind. (I think a lot of inexperienced youngsters read Eliezer and think they 'get' death as a terrible thing, but in truth they are parroting. They have become mindless, anti-death soldiers like children in a crusade. But I would count this as pre-tragic as well.) That initiation into the tragic may or may not come for you, but it is a rite of passage for the human being. The devastation of this modern world is robbing people of that rite of passage, by shielding people from facing the tragedy of death. This is not an accident. It is the culmination of many choices made by us humans over centuries. We have kept ourselves and our children from going through this, but the result has been disabling, enfeebling, cri