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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I'd be horrified knowing that without aging, a traumatic, fatal, accident becomes more and more likely as time passes to the point of being inevitable. Always on edge for that moment when it all suddenly comes to an end.

[โ€“] my_hat_stinks 7 points 8 months ago

That sounds like the gambler's fallacy to me. Time alone wount make an accident more likely, it just means potentially mpre opportunities wheee an accident could occur. Sitting on your sofa today or 10,000 years from now makes no difference if the environment is the same. If you've played the lottery 10 times before you likely won't win if you play again, if you play 100,000 times you still won't win.

You shouldn't be any more anxious about an unexpected accident than you are right now. Just without the worrying about factoring in aging.