Why aren't we comfortable with the seemingly natural limits of human life, according to Nagel?
A) We worry about how our deaths will affect our loved ones
B) Our sense of our own experience doesn't embody this idea of natural limits
C) Because oftentimes someone lives longer than we do
D) Nagel argues that we are comfortable with the natural limits of human life

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Nagel suggests that our discomfort with the natural limits of human life stems from our subjective experience of life, which does not inherently include a sense of these limits. Our internal perspective doesn't naturally reconcile with the idea of an endpoint, making the concept of our own mortality unsettling.

Why Aren't We Comfortable with the Seemingly Natural Limits of Human