The Quest for Immortality -- Who Wants to Live Forever???

It would be useful enough when you can decide when you're ready to pass away for sure.

Death is something that we not only inevitably encounter, but should want to encounter. We also should not want to live forever or even until we are very old, as there is an appropriate age to die.

Live is a series of milestones. When we hit each of life's milestones, we have feelings of joy and sadness. For example graduating university is a milestone. At graduation, we (and those closest to us) are happy because we are proud of our accomplishments and enthusiastic about what comes ahead, while at the same time we are sad because we are leaving behind forever a life we had. We are also anxious because we are uncertain of what lies ahead. Similarly marriage, the birth of one's children, one's first job, one' retirement are also milestones.

Death is one of those milestones. It is different that the other milestones in that we have little to be happy about because nobody really knows what lies after death. We have anxiety because we are uncertain about death. We also have sadness because we are forever leaving something behind when death occurs.

Like life's other milestones, there is a propper time for death and it should not be put off. We all knew people who took a few extra years to complete their schooling, or took extra time to get married, or retire. Those people who delayed completing milestones seemed out of place, lonely, or even immature. Similarly, taking too long to complete death makes one out of place.

Those who are the last to die have few friends their own age and are lonely. They are like the person who was the last to get married or who took seven years to complete college in that all their friends have moved on and they have few people to interact with whom understand them.

I am not saying there is an age you must die at. The age you should die at depends on your personality, the people around you, and the environment you live in. The age you should die at is like the age you should marry at. There are some 35 year old people who are out of place because they have yet to marry, and there are other 35 year old people who out of place because they are already married. Similarly, there could be some 80 year old people who have several good years left and there are some 70 year old people who want to die for good reason.

In summation, dying is something you should do at an appropriate time. Delaying your death is like being a 21 year old in kindergarten.

reply to post by hotpinkurinalmint


Would there be any advantage to extend one's quality of life?

when asking if it's possible to live forever, what is your idea of living?

reply to post by depth om


How about living comfortably, semi or totally retired, perhaps raising a family or not.

It's not onlyl possible, but the technology is already here. Google: Elizabeth Blackburn + telomeres
(I think that last word is spell correctly) or you can just Google her name. I think she's the one that a previous poster was referring to.

The good thing about it is that you would always be about 25 y.o. physically. OF course, you could still get hit by a car, but you won't age and you won't have any diseases because your immune system will be quite strong (a side effect).