When somebody dies, we bury their empty body with due ceremony. Everybody is mortal. If being told you are mortal gives you the willies, why not take up knitting?
The comment about "shelf life" had nothing to do with the comatose. Nor had it anything to do with those already married and parents. It was about people and especially women who reach 40 without having married. They are quite unlikely to do so. The reason is nature, which cannot be expelled with PC pickforks but always comes back.
Well that must be quite comforting at night.
As I said before, the words "shelf life" are offensive in ANY context. It says more about the person saying them than it does about the object it is directed at.
I think you are the one in fear of mortality. Life is about giving up oneself in teh service of another. A man gives up his life for his beloved, and vice versa. Its in the Bible. If that isnt proof that a marriage is more than the product of its parts, then I dont know what is. And your assertion that marriage is nothing but a materialist expression of purpose is as much a lie as any Stalinist.
Ive concluded, you're a raving lunatic. I wont call you a misogynist, because I dont even think you can step outside your little bubble of pseudo-philosophy to allow that kind of emotion in. You're an echo chamber whose words have no meaning to the rest of humanity. Call us Stalinist? Call us communist? I call you a waste of time.