Maverick who believes we can live for ever

Guardian UK ^ | September 10, 2005 | Mark Honigsbaum

[AmericanChef]

People are living too long now. Look at all the stooped over, barely-walking, wrinkled, bald old people around and you'll get a hint of it. They're walking drug stores, some of them, and that's just plain not natural. Doesn't matter what your mind or spirit is like, your body will die all the same.

[BipolarBob]

Dont you mean TREE of life?

Well yeah, . . . . that too . . . looking down at the ground . . . .kicking rocks . . . . but the Tree of Life needed water see . . . voice trailing off . . .

[Tax-chick]

Give me 99 good years, death in my sleep and a free pass at the pearly gates.

Sounds like a plan. There's nothing wrong with my life, particularly, but I think I'll be ready for it to be over in another 50 years or so :-).

[rmmcdaniell]

Oh joy! I can't wait for the day when its a civil right for all the useless welfare deadbeats to live forever at somebody else's expense.

[pa mom]

I'm curious about the next chapter, anyway. Those of us, and I know you are one, who believe in God don't fear what comes next.

[snarks_when_bored]

In case you didn't see this January posting, here's more info on de Grey:

Do You Want to Live Forever?

[rw4site]

Thanks to gravity, some body parts would be sagging so much at the age of 250 yrs that they would be dragging.

I'm with you for about 99 yrs or whenever I can no longer "git up and go."

[pa mom]

LOL! I have a friend whose husband says he wants to go when he's "sex-dead"!

[Tax-chick]

who believe in God don't fear what comes next

No, that's right. I was thinking about my last post, and I realized that there are quite a few things wrong with my life, because there is something wrong with me, and my husband, my parents, my kids, my neighbors, etc. That something is Sin, which is why life in this world can never be all we hope for.

Either we will die and see the Lord, or He will return and restore the Creation to the perfection God intended. Whatever happens, it won't be the "same old thing" for 1,000 years, and I'm very happy about that!

[Tax-chick]

My grandpop said he was ready to die when he was too sick to hunt anymore!

[depenzz]

LOL Tell him to hang in there, I'm 75 and going strong. LOL

[Larry Lucido]

I thought Gary Null already had this all worked out.

[goldstategop]

Lovely in theory. Its too late to help my deceased parents and will probably be too late to help me. Pie in the sky notion - but having no practical realization in the lifetime of those of us still alive.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Lester Moore]

Methuselah is not recorded as a prophet. The only Biblical facts concerning him are his father's name (Enoch), his son's name (Lamech), and his age.

Didn't Noah know Lamech, who of course knew his father Methuselah, who knew Adam?

[pa mom]

You give us all hope! Let us know how the second 75 go.

[AdamSelene235]

Not in your lifetime.

Currently every year you live, your life expectancy goes *up* 0.5 years. Including my rather robust genetic history (males in my family usually live until their late 80's), I can expect to make it to at least 2055 if not 2080. Technology might be pretty good by then.

If I stop crashing motorcycles and pissing of Kazakhstani traffic cops, that is.

[Tom Bombadil]

I am really enjoying my 50's, I enjoyed my 40's and I am looking forward to the rest of my life. I am glad to have met my grandchildren and really don't see why I should want more life than what I was born with.

[R. Scott]

…we can live for ever

Who in their right mind would want to?
Even if everyone lived forever, and I wouldn’t have to worry about watching friends die off, I still wouldn’t want it. We would have to institute a partial ban on births – just enough to make up for those who die from accident, sickness and war. The Earth would soon become a very boring place full of people who literally know everyone else, and locked into their set ideas and opinions.

[R. Scott]

Give me 99 good years, death in my sleep and a free pass at the pearly gates.

Sounds like a plan I could deal with.