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Quote by: Kuldeep  @Julboz
When you to 400th year last day, or time of death, you woulsd repeat "life is too short". Death is natural phenomina. But death is to body not to the self. Self l;ives eternally and changes body after body!!! |
Perhaps 1000 years wouldn't be enough, perhaps 10,000 wouldn't be enough, but I imagine I would at some point grow both mentally and physically fatigued of my existence and would welcome death. Death, unfortunately, does seem to me to be the destruction of an individual; the end of a life that can never again exist. I won't deny that I am extraordinarily skeptical of an afterlife or some sort of reincarnation, but I certainly can't prove that with the few years of life that I have.
On a more philosophical note, it would seem that the level to which you grew as an individual would be interesting with a longer life span. I've met children that see the world through an adult's eyes, yet I have met middle aged men no wiser than a young teen. Given 1,000 years, could the fools gain some ground, or are some people perpetually bound by their own limits into ignorance and idiocy? And, if so, what about those who break away from their bindings and seem to see the world around them in clarity? Given ten times the life span, how much more could they achieve? What level of depth perception could they aspire to?