[RightWhale]

immortality is a big step, but I think invulnerability is very important

A children's story: There was a woman who got a wish and wished for eternal life. However, as she got older she began to shrink like people do. They get shorter and wrinkle up. The older she got the smaller and more wrinkled she got. Eventually she was the size of a thumb and looked like a raisin.

[Williams]

When my daughter was small (maybe 3 or 4) I was talking to her about Jesus because she'd had a catechism lesson. I said something about it being a shame He was crucified and she said "Yeah, because he'd still be alive today." I said no, because he'd be 2,000 years old and people don't live that long. She literally shook and asked "But all people don't die?" I had to explain they did, but that was a long way off, etc.

Thereafter she determined that she was going to invent a "live forever spray" and spray it on me so that I would live forever. However, some years later she announced that she was probably never going to invent that spray, and that I would, in fact, die. Thus far this has been my closest brush with immortality.

[TexasTransplant]

As usual a post to Brighten everyones day, RightWhale... the eternal optimist.