immortality makes me tired

[campbellpaige]

I'm watching a report on "60 Minutes" about a professor at Cambridge who thinks it will soon be possible for humans to live to 500 years, or even 1000. I don't know if it's because I just got back from Mexico and jet-lag is wreaking havoc on me, or if it's because it's 7 p.m. and I'm still in my pajamas, but the whole discussion makes me want to

Comments

Too little imagination, what if myoung again?

[anonymous]

Campbellpaige, I think you lack imagination. Do you think someone born in 1853 could imagine a career as an aerobatic pilot? Would they find that exciting to do after having lived a full life of tending the cows if they'd been suddenly made 25 years of age physically and this new fangled airplanes thing was coming about? This same thing goes for the Seattle something commentors grand dad. If you haven't yet been a rock star or a neuro surgeon or whatever the future might yet invent, the list is limitless, then how can you possibly say you'd get bored? The problem is you both are looking at this through the lens of this ages limitations. Once those are gone one will be able to think differently. Try thinking a life of multiple careers or letting your savings amount to billions through compound interest and spending the rest of your life getting to know intimately every corner of the Earth all it's varied peoples and then maybe Mars and beyond. Why stop with just great grand children or only one family for that matter? Expand your minds the future is unbound.