Quote Originally Posted by Lady_Silvermoon View Post

ETA: So if someone erases your memory, reduces your intelligence to half that of an ape, mutilates your body so bad you start to turn into an animal and five minutes later you die of natural causes because they've reduced your lifespan from 70 years to five minutes, they didn't kill you? Really?
In the text of the story, that's not what happened. The text of the story explicitly states that there is nothing inherently superior about the culture and existence of the Ancients and that Emet-Selch's pining about the good old days and how things were so much better back then and that modern life is so inferior to what once was nothing more than the delusional ramblings of a bitter old man.

The Sundering - and the life that spawned from it - is pretty explicitly stated to have just as much value as the life of the immortal god-wizards.