Writer's Block: Who wants to live forever?

[trickykitty]

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Why is that second question even on there?

Also, it would depend. How "old" would I be? If I can stay in an aged 21-40 year old body (24-25 were some damn fine years), then sure. But if I'm in a body that's crumpled, doesn't allow me to walk without assistance, or exercise anymore, or have sex without breaking my pelvis, or that has all the cute boys running away like crazy from the sagging tits, or that requires my blob of a skeleton to be carted around on a gurney, then FUCK NO. I wouldn't want to live forever if I couldn't do it with vitality and pizzazz.

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[jdack.livejournal.com]

I wager the second question was to defer the "well I would but then I'd have to watch my friends and kids and grandkids die!" thing.

[trickykitty.livejournal.com]

I hate when people use that argument. Life is more than just the sad times. Old folks are expecting their other old folk friends to die. It's not like it's a happy thing, but it also doesn't stop them from living for themselves. Listening to them say, "You know I read in the obits that so-and-so died the other day?" Shit, it's so regular it becomes coffee talk. Children lose their pet dogs and then are playing around on the monkey bars with their friends two hours later. Life keeps going.

(This retort brought to you from my many years working at the YMCA around children and seniors and dealing with them both on a daily basis.)

[jdack.livejournal.com]

True enough.

But still, no one ever wants to outlive their offspring. It's unnatural.

[trickykitty.livejournal.com]

But is it because it's unnatural, or just that they don't want to have to go through the pain and suffering of burying their children. Mourning and suffering sucks, but if you are strong enough to mourn and move on, then living forever is doable. If you are one prone to mourn, and then fall into deep depression or some other psychological break from reality, then living forever is not for you.

I think I could write an infomercial on this.

('Infomercial' was already in my spell checker. What is this world coming to?)

[jdack.livejournal.com]

Dunno. I can't even imagine what it's like inside the mind of someone who actually loves life enough to want it to go on forever so it's all fiction to me.

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They're probably working on re-animating the corpse of Billy Mays as we speak.

[adalheidis-aria.livejournal.com]

Live forever and WATCH you all die? Oh hell no.

Live forever and be the CAUSE of your deaths. Why, with that much time, why work when I can devote every waking hour to imaging ever more creative murders?

[trickykitty.livejournal.com]

Can we have robot army building time now?

[theamazingamber.livejournal.com]

ditto for me; life without pizzazz is no life at all