do you still want to live forever? (page 2)

BluesBrother

Like the rest of us , I used to look forward to living forever, cheating old age and death , and I admit a disappointment when I realised it was just not going to happen - that I was going to get old and that my life is in fact more than two thirds over, and so little acheived!

But think again. I was at Twickenham, idly thinking during the talks and seeing all the families and Mums and pushchairs. Can you really imagine a life with no more family events? No deaths, no elderly grand parents, no joyous births ? - just one generation of stable people living on and never handing over to a new generation , kind of selfish really

No one wants to face their death, but eternal life as portrayed by the witnesses no longer appeals to me. And since we have not been led to believe in a heavenly future , I guess my time will come as it did to my father and his father etc.

As Freddy Mercury sang "Who wants to live forever? this world has only one sweet moment set aside for us......etc"

hillary_step

Life is like money, when you have lots to spend the world is great fun, but to the bankrupt it is a misery and highly overated.

If I were huddled in a tent in the winter blizards engulfing the Afghani mountains fighting frostbite; well today would be a good day to die.

If I lived in the penthouse on the top floor of the Waldorf Towers, I might want to live for a little while longer...

I think we would all want to live forever if we could on our own terms, anything apart from that is liable to a subjective viewpoint.

Stravinsky in his late nineties once said, 'The tragic thing is I have only just begun'. If he was the guy parking his limo every night he might be saying 'The tragic thing is it never really began'.

Creativity, exploration, curiosity are reasons why I would like to live forever. The taxman is a good reason why I would not.

Best regards - HS

Simon

forever? no ... it may seem terribly melancholy but there will be a time when the events of Sep 11 and every other tradgedy will pale into insignificance. It may be hundreds, thousands or millions of years in the future but it will come one day because the universe itself won't last forever.

Imagine the last human(s) facing the inevitable as the asteroid approaches or the last star fades etc ...

However, I hate the thought of ever leaving Angharad and my two lads. I want to be here to protect them and help them, be their friend, see what they do with their lives and hear about all the things they have seen.

Perhaps I'll write them a letter to try and tell them how I feel and leave a bit of me behind (not that I don't tell them but you know...)

nelly136

noooo, I'll be quite happy to roll over and make room for someone else
when its time for me to check out,

blues brother, nice to see someone else here who remembers twickenham

nelly

hillary_step

Twickenham Summer Assemblies - who says that there is no such place as Hell.

HS

RR

Live forever on earth? Not with a bunch of Jehovah's Witnesses.

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"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

LB

Of course I want to live forever. I'm having fun NOW

Englishman

Remember Sir John Gielgud in "Arthur" with Dudley Moore?

When he was asked if there was anything that he regretted in his life, he paused, thought hard, and then said:

"Yes. I wish that I had had more sex."

I aint gonna go like that!

Englishman.

Bring on the dancing girls!

ISP

Not that bothered. Old age will come. You have time to get used to the idea. Time to get used to the changed appearance. So do those around you. Death seems almost natural.......

ISP

Bang

Absolutely, but I wouldn't go to lengths as in try and buy it, else I wouldn't feel right. I believe I will always be in some way, and it will always be good because I know there One who is not like us, but better in a marvelous way, and so truth and joy exists - that's enough.

Bang

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