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According to buddhism birth is the beginning of suffering, and death is the end of it. Death can be a mercy, and a beautiful thing. I hope to die well one day, and not live forever. If modern medicine would be able to prevent my death forever, I don't think I'd opt in. This is not about that.
Some deaths _should_ be prevented. Deaths resulting from violence (war, crime, but also car accidents) are preventable, and we should do something about them. Child mortality through preventable diseases falls into the same category in my mind. Some use a natural fallacy, or point to the bible to explain we should just let children die, but I'm very happy that I'm not living in a time where half my sibblings would be dead and the rest would be either scarred by some pretty nasty virussed…