Dying is the only thing that makes life worth living.
Imagine how different the world would be if you knew you were never going to die. There would never be any urgency to get anything done because you know you ALWAYS can do it tomorrow.
And eventually people would have to stop having babies because of overpopulation.
So there’d be no incentive to get anything done, and no children to get it done for. We’d have a planet full of million-year-old people who had never had the joy of being a parent, who had no children to strive to make the world better for, and no motivation to do anything but sit around and eat bon-bons.
I remember reading a sci-fi story based on that premise.🤔
But, what if you didn’t believe that and you had billions of dollars? Once you have billions of dollars and could buy a hundred of anything including jet airplanes? Once you can afford anything you want you look to buy what’s not for sale. What would the most valuable thing be? Clearly, longer life.
who will make the bon bons?
Staying alive for 1000 years is sure to get old.
The best one was Against the Fall of Night, about a future city in which people were billions of years old.
The sun was red and dying, and Earth had pretty much dried up. Most everyone lived in a single city, Diaspar. Civilization had long since become stagnant. No one ever ventured outside the city.
The youngest person, Alvin, was 7,000 years old. His birth was famous, because no one had been born in a while. He was still considered a boy.
Naturally, Alvin becomes restless and curious, and ventures out of Diaspar ...
“Dying is the only thing that makes life worth living.”
So you’re not a fan of everlasting life after you die?
“We’d have a planet full of million-year-old people who had never had the joy of being a parent, who had no children to strive to make the world better for, and no motivation to do anything but sit around and eat bon-bons.”
That’s pretty much the way paradise is sold. Except you’d also be playing the harp while eating bon-bons.