The vast majority of people who might potentially get enjoyment out of the practice will never know it because they will never try. Evolutionary speaking, 99.9% of people over 99.9% of human history have been too busy surviving to experiment with how they can *almost* kill themselves for fun.

All the cases I heard from where people died after doing this, the person was very bored, without purpose in life, and mentally ill.

My loss experiences were in reverse, I lost my mother before my pets. But the loss of my pets hit me much harder because they had been a positive part on my life.

I imagine that quite a few people struggle after the loss of a pet specifically because they think - and maybe are also being told - that they shouldn't feel as bad as they do because "it was only an animal". The first step in avoiding lasting psychological damage is accepting that the pet was just as important to one's life as people are, and that that is okay.

I wonder where those people fit in who voluntarily choose total isolation and seem to be doing fine. Recently I saw a video about a guy who has been living in a hut in Siberia for 25 years, 30 km away from the closest settlement, because he "didn't like it in the village". He's probably a pretty weird guy but I doubt that his lifestyle is physically harming him.

So probably quite a few people are wired to live not as social animals, and isolation likely hurts only those who are isolated against their wishes.

Like what, seriously, do you think is going to happen? Cats and humans don't even share many pathogens that are harmful to both. I've had cats for 30 years and they go everywhere, sleep everywhere, I use the same plates for my food that I use for their food. I eat food that they licked. What is that supposed to give me? AIDS? Cancer?

For the record though, my cats are pure house cats. If they went outside, that's a different matter. Cats that go outside are frequently infested with parasites. Mine never had any.

If you have kids, or plan to have, your attitude will probably get them allergies. Hysteric exaggerated hygiene is harmful and will make your own immune system your worst enemy, people used to live with swine in the same space. Having your cat, the cleanest animal there is, walk everywhere, will definitely never cause you any harm.

Meanwhile I bought fresh beef today for my cats and all three of them won't even touch it.

That cat is cleaner than you.

Women gain just as much muscle mass from strength training as men, relative to what they started with. But because they usually start from a much lower baseline, their overall strength will still be lower than that of a comparably trained man.

I cannot imagine a continuous procedure that takes 36 hours to complete. What exactly are they cutting for such a long time?

If this is about making extremely delicate incisions in the brain of the patient or something like that, I cannot imagine that a surgeon who has been working for 35 hours and probably was already sleep-deprived when they started will do the best possible job.

Just seems very likely to me that handing over to a rested person after 12 hours or so, when some kind of milestone has been reached, would lead to better results for everyone involved.

Ah yes, we can't have things connected to reality if we don't like that reality.