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No, I wouldn't want to live forever because this world is in a sad state and looks like it's only gonna get worse and I don't want to be around for what may become of it. Another reason I don't want to be here forever is I'd miss my family and one day when we do pass I'd like to see them again wherever heaven is.
I am all for living forever - so long as it is a life worth living. That is, I don't want to age to be infirmed and immobile and totally dependent on others only to live forever in that state. That's why, when I turn 75, I will commit suicide if medical advances don't enable me to live a productive, active, and healthy life.
Basically I want my cake and eat it too. And that's a good thing, and here's why ...
If I were to live forever, as an engineer, I would continue advancing science and applications until I either meet my unfortunate accidental death or I get bored with it, or want a change in scenery. Then I'd likely endeavor to become a publisher, in memoriam to one of hte most beautiful and wonderful people I know. Then the list goes on and on...
I wholeheartedly think that technology, in the next 50 years, will enable us to live clinically immortal lives in cybernetic form. And my argument is, as a cyborg, I'd only need the sun and solar cells to keep going, and so long as I am not causing a menace and take up too much space and resources, why not allow me to live on? Eventually we will achieve faster than light technology and then that's where the many billions who would be with me would be able to shine - spreading our culture and humanity to the cosmos, and hang with E.T., phoning home.
I cannot bear the idea of outliving my children or seeing them grow old, frail, and weak. I want more youth, more time and resources, but if I live to male an impression on a grandbaby, that will have been enough.
2. Watch TV ads with 150 plus year-old people in clawfoot bathtubs sipping champagne on a mountain top and wondering if the "time is right."
3. Listen to some whinging tee ball-playing, helmet-wearing, 28 hour work week whippersnapper complain about my generation sucking their retirement dry.
4. Take in unemployed family members to live in my basement until they find a job. "Yeah, that's my 95 year old daughter, Britney, who can't find a job since she graduated from college with her degree in Gender Studies, 74 years ago. Still has money to party with that lazy robot boyfriend of hers."
5. Worry about the boobs getting caught when I bend over to tie my shoelaces.
If one could live forever, life would be pointless. Talk about fostering procrastination. What would be the point in doing anything when you have forever to do it?
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