I don't wanna think about how many National Geographics I'll have stacked up by then.
- In 1900, the average life-span for a human-being was 40 years of age. In 1900 if you had told someone that people would, on average, live to the age of 80, you would have been laughed at.
- In 1950, if you had told someone that you could replace a human heart, or liver, with another donated human heart or liver, you would have been mocked and ridiculed (just like how some of you are mocking and ridiculing this article.)
- Technology expands on an exponential curve, not a straight one. Technological advances come faster, and more frequent with each passing moment.
Sometime in the future (its impossible to know for sure), humanity will create the technology to stop people from dying. Its inevitable. I hope I am around for it.
Some of you claim it would be boring. Some of you think 80 years is enough for you. It damn well isnt enough for me! We live in a wondrous universe. I want to experience and learn everything I can before I check-out.
So, you religious nuts who keep quoting scripture, as if you are making some kind of profound point...get over it. Humanity keeps expanding its life-expectancy, and this expansion will only increase faster and faster.
Let me put it this way...if you lived 1,000 years instead of 80, then imagine all of the things you could do to help God's creatures within those 1,000 years. Anyone who is truly focused on carrying out God's will should try to live longer. It gives them more time to help everyone else. This world would be a wonderful place if the saints of this world (like Mother Theresa for example) could live 1,000 years.