The overpopulation problem could be solved by ceasing to create new children :P or expanding to new planets.

That sucks man. My condolences.

AFAIK, none of the people I've known and cared about through life have died yet, beside my grandmas and gramps.

I remember the feeling well, I would never ever see them again.

I've been very lucky other than that.

I think it was louie c.k. who had an amazing standup about death.

It was something like,

"You're in a bar and you see a girl and you want to talk to her but, you know that, it will just end up in tears, so you don't.

Say you do, and you go out for a couple weeks and then she leaves you. Tears. No matter what happens, you met this girl at a bar and it is going to end up in tears. Even if you get married, and have kids then you'll get divorced. Tears. But say you're one of those really lucky few that are soul mates and you get married and everything, you're together for 50 years, and then she dies. Tears. 

That's why I don't let my kids have pets. A dog is gunna die someday, and it's like 'Hey kids look what I brought you! A big bag of tears!'"

Anyway, that's how I feel about it. It's fucking depressing followed by the sharp sting of reality, but it's those years in between that make it all worth while. Here's to many happy memories.

Well, if the dog is evil, those will be tears of joy when it dies.

I think we should try to solve the immorality issue, before we go into the overpopulation one.

And deny billions of countless future lives the chance to live?

Take your turn to live life and when your time is up, it's up. Time for someone else to have their time here.

If they're not concieved/born you're not denying them anything.

Hi guys, I would love to go through and thank each one of you. But I'm gping to save myself some time by thanking you all in one go if that's ok.

Thank you for your support, it really means a lot to me.

Denying the future, something that hasn't come to pass yet, is still denying the future, something that could have been.

You and I just have different view points on life, and it's fine. =P

My grandmother died a little over a year ago.

Her mental status had declined sharply and she didn't even recognize us when we came into the room.

So yeah, it's horrible not being able to tell them "Goodbye."

My condolences.

You could look at it this way. The way we live now is denying the billions of real people that actually live to keep living, while ceasing to create children would only be denying hypothetical people to live. And people would always die of accidents anyway, so there would always be a need to create new people, just not as many as today.

At least that's how I see it.