The main message of this book is: Death is Evil. The author spends 12 chapters to prove his point refuting the main pro-Death/Death is natural/Death is good arguments he finds out there. Linden disects every argument into its atomic parts, and debunks each bit with sometimes relentlessly tedious, dense logic, philosophy and common sense. A bit hard to read but I'm happy I persevered.
While the book provides very strong arguments against the belief that death is good, I am still hesitant to 100% favour the Death is Evil argument. I guess my intellectual side kind of favours it, but my emotional side is harder to convince. I do not see any attempt to significantly prolong our lives and/or to reach immortality, becoming real any time soon. So better to accept my, everyone's fate and have the best life I, we can... I guess..
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