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How old do you want to live to be?
I would personally like to reach a ripe old age, into my 80s sounds like a fair deal. I have a lot of things that I haven't done yet, and need more time to do it in.
Hopefully longevity is in my blood, my maternal grandmother lived into her late 90s, and was strong without any serious physical health conditions to the end and alert, playing chinese checkers daily and making witty comebacks until the last months. I am told I look like her, and take after her, have her bone structure, hair, eyes and other physical characteristics. I'd love to inherit her lifespan too if the heavens are feeling generous.
Bonus question: Would you want to live forever if you could?
As tempting as it sounds, I think that could be scary too, because you will outlive everyone you grow close too presumably, unless they can be immortal too. Also I'd want to read the fine print, because it could be one of those bad bargains like the goddess Eos made in Greek mythology. She fell in love with a human Tithonus and asked for him to be immortal too so they could be together, but the twist was he lived forever, but didn't get eternal youth, he was technically alive but he never stopped aging and slowly rotted away into a living corpse.
Even if I could live forever with my current body the world as we know it still won't last forever, whether humanity makes the planet uninhabitable in this century or the sun envelops the earth billions of years from now, our time eventually will run out. Best case scenario we colonize space, but don't know if I really would want to live to see all that. There's just too many uncertainties with a deal like a living forever, so I think I will try to be content with just living a long, rich and normal life.
What about you?
I would personally like to reach a ripe old age, into my 80s sounds like a fair deal. I have a lot of things that I haven't done yet, and need more time to do it in.
Hopefully longevity is in my blood, my maternal grandmother lived into her late 90s, and was strong without any serious physical health conditions to the end and alert, playing chinese checkers daily and making witty comebacks until the last months. I am told I look like her, and take after her, have her bone structure, hair, eyes and other physical characteristics. I'd love to inherit her lifespan too if the heavens are feeling generous.
Bonus question: Would you want to live forever if you could?
As tempting as it sounds, I think that could be scary too, because you will outlive everyone you grow close too presumably, unless they can be immortal too. Also I'd want to read the fine print, because it could be one of those bad bargains like the goddess Eos made in Greek mythology. She fell in love with a human Tithonus and asked for him to be immortal too so they could be together, but the twist was he lived forever, but didn't get eternal youth, he was technically alive but he never stopped aging and slowly rotted away into a living corpse.
Even if I could live forever with my current body the world as we know it still won't last forever, whether humanity makes the planet uninhabitable in this century or the sun envelops the earth billions of years from now, our time eventually will run out. Best case scenario we colonize space, but don't know if I really would want to live to see all that. There's just too many uncertainties with a deal like a living forever, so I think I will try to be content with just living a long, rich and normal life.
What about you?
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