A while back a friend of mine remarked that she doesn't like the way that people talk about "saving a life," since it's more accurate to say "delaying death." Our ethical calculus on many issues would change if we stopped pretending that lives could be saved.
More recently it occurred to me that a more neutral way of saying it might be "prolonging a life."
In any case, it really bugs me that our culture teaches us to unconsciously believe that if we are careful enough we will live forever.
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Date: 2012-09-05 07:07 pm (UTC)More recently it occurred to me that a more neutral way of saying it might be "prolonging a life."
In any case, it really bugs me that our culture teaches us to unconsciously believe that if we are careful enough we will live forever.