How do you think your life would change if the average life expectancy was 5,000 years?
The article can be read at: http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2005-01/prophet-immortality
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Well, first, my largest problem with life may be less of a problem. I don't have enough time to pursue all the ideas I find interesting, or live everywhere I want to live now. I'd relax, as I have more time to accomplish everything I want to do. I'd probably immediately enroll in school again. The opportunities are mind-boggling!
I'd probably be more forgiving of my own mistakes, since they'd have less impact spread out over that span of time.
Think about all the crazy landscaping I could do! I think I'd still want to live right here, but I'd be planting trees with an eye to how they'd look in 100 years or more, rather than 2. oh...but I'd definitely hire a gardener. I'm not sure I want to do the kind of work I'd need to do to create the perfect English lawn.
Pain management and degenerative diseases would definitely become a priority. Who would want to live for 4,950 years in pain? Health issues, in general, would be more important.
I'd become even more dedicated to not acquiring a lot of excess stuff. Can you imagine 5,000 years of knick-knacks cluttering a life? Clothes that don't fit or aren't quite worn out? Gack! I'd try to have a lifestyle that would allow me to explore opportunities as they arrive, that I could pick up and move everything of importance in the span of a week or so.
I could go on and on. You get the idea. Thanks for the wonderful daydream, though!
My experience and interests
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Assuming we'd live all those thousands of years in good physical condition and with full memory of all our years. then maybe in the best case we'd end up like Elrond:
-- Quote
The face of Elrond was ageless, neither old nor young, though in it was written the memory of many things both glad and sorrowful. His hair was dark as the shadows of twilight, and upon it was set a circlet of silver; his eyes were grey as a clear evening, and in them was a light like the light of stars. Venerable he seemed as a king crowned with many winters, and yet hale as a tried warrior in the fullness of his strength. He was the Lord of Rivendell and mighty among both Elves and Men.
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(The Fellowship of the Ring, Book II, Chapter 1)
Perhaps we'd live long enough to grow wise, and yet stay strong enough to actually put all that wisdom to good use.
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Ever read what happens to baby rats when a rat cage is over-populated? It isn't pretty.
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