• @jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    328 days ago

    This was my thought as well. Star Trek still has people dying of old age. I’m pretty sure the culture let’s you go as long as you want.

    • @Bgugi@lemmy.world
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      128 days ago

      It’s a bit taboo, but I believe permitted. “Typical” lifespans are on the order of a few hundred years.

      • AwesomeLowlander
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        228 days ago

        Don’t recall it being taboo, just that people eventually get bored and end it out of ennui, in universe. Granted it’s been ages since my last readthrough.

        • @Bgugi@lemmy.world
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          228 days ago

          I’m in the middle of my first! In Use of Weapons, they talk about how the character Zakalwe (not culture) has chosen to be modified to a fixed age, and how contrary that decision is the cultures philosophies.

          • @turmacar@lemmy.world
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            228 days ago

            IIRC they think it’s weird, but importantly they still do it. He’s an agent so there’s Special Circumstances but they still value the choice to do it more than they do sticking to norms.