Darko
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The idea that you need some special mindset to be effectively immortal as an Orange Lantern still seems really dumb to me. Most people don't really want to get old, or decrepit, or deal with illness or injury or whatever.
The idea that always being in your prime isn't just part of the package is just absolutely bonkers to me.
Right. The ring allows you to completely reshape your body, anyways. Wouldn't the vast majority of old people want to stop being old if they have the ring on?
It's perfectly possible that they don't see getting old or dying as being anything that's wrong or bad.
Their culture, society or religion may even consider these things to be good, or they themselves may view them as being good, so have no great desire to avoid them all that much.
There are real life cultures that venerate old age.
They might view immortality and agelessnes as even being abhorrent.
They probably may not like illness or injury, so use the ring to get rid of those, but have nothing against old age.
They may try to remove some of the less positive aspects of getting old, like losing some of your mental or physical strength, but are otherwise fine with getting old and dying.
And that's assuming their species has any negative side effects from getting old.
Some of the members in the Corps may belong to species where old age actually brings physical and mental benefits, as in they get stronger and more mentally focused the more they age.
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