LONGECITY

Would it be absurd then to suppose that this perfection of the human species might be capable of indefinite progress; that the day will come when death will be due only to extraordinary accidents or to the decay of vital forces, and that ultimately the average span between birth and decay will have no assignable value? Certainly man will not become immortal, but will not the interval between the first breath that he draws and the time when in the natural course of events, without disease or accident, he expires, increase indefinitely?

I hate death

Men do not live long enough; they are, for purposes of high civilization, mere children when they die....

No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I; and all religion is simply evolved out of chicanery, fear, greed, imagination and poetry.
-- from Rufus K. Noyes, Views of Religion

No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I; and all religion is simply evolved out of chicanery, fear, greed, imagination and poetry.
-- from Rufus K. Noyes, Views of Religion

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful; for thou art not so...
And Death shall be no more: Death,
thou shalt die!

I would like to die as young as possible and as late as possible!

When I die I won't go to heaven or hell, there will just be nothingness.

If the universe has no malice, neither has it mercy; it accepts no excuses, and a miss is as good as a mile. The rarest genius has but to take one misstep in New York City traffic, and the universe will judge him incompetent and sentence him to death.

Robert Ettinger

There is always time to choose death, but you have very little time to choose life. Please choose life, while you still can; then we shall see.

Cuz the worms crawl in, the worms crawl out,
they chew yer guts n spit 'em out
there'll come a day when you will die
everyone shall drink and no one cry
they'll put you in a wooden box
and cover you up with dirt and rocks
you'll soon smell like turds
and rotten socks, the worms crawl in
the worms crawl out...

I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.

How ironic, that writers often refer to people being 'freed' by death!-when in fact death is the complete, the absolute absence of freedom, since both power and will are reduced to nil.

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

There are many virtues to growing old…. I am just trying to think what they are.

Other men die, but I am not other men; therefore, I'll not die.

Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist.

"The idea that death is inevitable has killed more people than all other causes of death combined."
"Human beings could live forever if they would change fast enough."
Edited by thefirstimmortal, 24 August 2008 - 05:58 AM.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife -- a depressing thought, particularly for those who have bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held.

Fear prophets ... and those prepared to die for the truth, as a rule make many others die with them, often before them, and at times instead of them.

That which does not kill me strengthens me.

The arguments for spiritual immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together.... For my part, I cannot see how consciousness can persist when its physical basis has been destroyed, and I am too sure of the interconnection of my body and my mind to think that any survival of my consciousness apart from my body would be in any sense a survival of myself.

Here's what happens when you die -- you sit in a box and get eaten by worms. I promise you that when you die, nothing cool happens.

I think when you're dead...you're dead. It comes with the territory.

When I die I won't go to heaven or hell, there will just be nothingness.

Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. A being who does not hold his own life as the motive and goal of his actions, is acting on the motive and standard of death. Such a being is a metaphysical monstrosity, struggling to oppose, negate, and contradict the fact of his own existence, running blindly amuck on a trail of destruction, capable of nothing but pain.
Ayn Rand

I sometimes hear people say, "Wouldn’t it be boring to live forever?" But would it be more exciting to be dead?

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religion, but clearly all religions come from that hope.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.