Who wants to live forever?

[ctr0]

I do. I've been following a series of articles on LiveScience that talk about aging and disease and how we are learning to combat them. According to one article, the author beleives that all disease will be wiped out in 30 years; that our technology is growing so fast that we will come to a basic sub-cellular understanding of all ills and be able

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[vznh]

I'm always very suspicious of all of this increased lifespan stuff... what's that quote? something like "many people yearn for immortality who can't figure out what to do on a Sunday afternoon"
Most people are never content, and rather than learn how to be content with their *current* life, they obsess over the idea of making it longer -- with the hope that they will somehow, magically, in the future, actually be happy, if they can just live long enough. Silliness.
Not that any of this applies to you, of course, I'm just saying :)

I found that to be one of the most interesting things about the Anne Rice vampire novels -- she talks a lot about how the vampires handle immortality. In the case of most of them, they handle it badly, and end up killing themselves. *shrug*