Memento Mori
Someone at work died over the weekend. He wasn't particularly old either. *Sigh* Things like this make me very aware of my own mortality. Even though being alive sucks from time to time (the fact you waste most of it doing what you don't want to do) shouldn't discourage people from wanting to live forever. Certainly, if offered the opportunity to live forever (as something non-old and wrinkled, I don't want to turn into a cricket) I would jump at the chance like a moth to a slightly inebriated and infinitely more alluring moth. If nothing else, I want to see what happens to the human race, whether it screws up and dies out in the next hundred years or manages to colonise other worlds. If that happened I'd start using my immortality to cause an A Canticle for Leibowitz scenario on another world and revert to Dark Age scientific advances.
Mmm, moth date rape.
Mmm, moth date rape.