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    Supports→It might be possible to make death not bad for us by suitably preparing ourselves.

    We might 'thanatize' our desires by abandoning all desires that death might thwart and replacing them with conditionalized versions (e.g., replacing 'let my project succeed' with 'should I live on, let my project succeed').

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    Desires(Contrasted with wishes as arising from inclination rather than reason)
    Blind powers born from temperament; non-rational appetitive states.
    conditionalized(as used in logic and philosophy of desire)
    Rewritten or rephrased to include an 'if' condition. For example, turning a simple wish into a wish that only applies if something else is true first.
    thanatize(as used in philosophy of death and desire)
    To adjust or modify something by taking death into account. The word comes from 'thanatos' (Greek for death) and means to make something death-aware or death-conscious.

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    thwart(as used in discussions about death and goals)
    To prevent something from happening or to block someone's plans. If death thwarts your desire, it means death stops you from achieving what you want.

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    Even if death is usually bad for those of us who die, perhaps it need not be bad for us, if we prepare ourselves suitably. This might be possible if some form of preferentialism is true, and if, by altering our desires, we could cease to have any interests that dying would impair. For then we might be able to thanatize our desires, in this sense: we might abandon all desires that death might thwart. Among these are desires we can satisfy only if we live on for a few days, but also desires we cannot possibly satisfy within the span of a normal lifetime, and the desire for immortality itself. In...

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