How long would a species last that did not seek to prolong survival? There is usually paticular emphasis on passing the age of procreation and seeing the successful genetic continuation before people are 'more' content to pass away.
This is not unique to humans, try drowning a cat/dog/tiger and see how keen it is for the big sleep. This hesistancy to die even in the animal kingdom does not logically conclude their right or natural progression to everlasting life. The emphasis on genetic continuation is also seen in the animal kingdom as paternal animals risk or even offer their lives to a predator of their offepring. Despite life being precious to an animal, its offspring are generally more so.
Being alive consumes energy, consumes time and space. To want to live forever is to deny the right of others to live at all. It is a selfish thing to deny the wonders of life to people who would never exist had some had their way of immortality. Simple physics and biology dictate that to live and breed for infinity would be impossible. To live forever and not breed would be a death sentence to the unborn.
Living forever is a very selfish want when examined in the realms of reality. Of course an ignorant and loyal to the end cultist/fundementslist could claim the magic of god as the answer, he could make the earth, universe and everything infinite..... Of course, introducing new forms of humans on a new planet in a new universe with new physical laws and new constraints may answer the dilemma, but gone is the notion of everything they claim. We would not be us, our earth would not be our earth and our universe not our universe, the life we did not want to end would not be our life.... Quite a different set of circumstances to where we began i.e. Living forever on a paradise earth. The irony of course is, this promise, this description, this concept is not found in ONE verse of the bible anyway, not ONE. Only ONE bible reading christian religion teach this,because it simply is not in the bible.... The Jehovahs Witnesses! They only introduced it 50 years into the religion themselves. In the 1930's they now had to explain why there were more than 144,000 witnesses as they had long taught that was the limit to the number going to heaven ( Ironically to explain away why so few people were JW's), What a mess!
But far from the JW message, the reality is that death and energy transfer is very natural, to not WANT to die is also very natural. There is no contradiction if you know your basic biology. Along comes a cult and takes advantage of these two natural incidents and hangs an untrue but seemingly logical fallacy.... If you dont want to die, death is unnantural, therefore living forever is natural. All the time they forget.....no ignore.....that they denounce the simple dog as mortal, yet no dog wishes to die either. The snake salesman is good at his job however and 8 million people want the product..... Everlasting Life, even at the expense of all the earth being wiped out by a deity for them to get it. All thiose men and women, all those children and babies... All those buildings to rubble...... all for a log cabin in a field and a panda in the garden, how disgusting! The snake salesman is that good at selling the product, not only do they want it, they believe they deserve it... EVEN at such great cost in human life and suffering at gods hand....why? Because they attended some meetings and placed some magazines...........
crazy.......
