For one, if you remove death, you remove any…
For one, if you remove death, you remove any scarcity from life And if you remove scarcity, you remove the ability to determine value. Everything will seem equally good or bad, equally worthy or unworthy of your time and attention, because well, you would have infinite time and attention. You could spend a hun dred years watching the same TV show, and it wouldn't matter.
— from The Landing (Death) · Everything is Fcked: A Book About Hope by Mark Manson*
In the book
For if you could somehow remove death — if you really did have ten thousand years — you would not have gained life, you would have drained it of all value. Remove death and you remove scarcity, and remove scarcity and you remove the very thing that lets you tell the precious from the worthless; everything becomes equally worthy and unworthy of your time, which is to say nothing matters at all. Let me make it concrete, the way I see it from the cockpit. — The Landing (Death)
And because it can never be bought back, its scarcity is the very thing that makes it precious — it is valuable precisely because there is never enough of it. Remember what we said about death — if you could remove the ending, you would remove all scarcity, and remove scarcity and you remove the ability to tell what is precious from what is worthless. Time is precious for exactly the reason we wish it weren't: there is not enough of it. — Time