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[thefirstimmortal]

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

[thefirstimmortal]

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?

[brokenportal]

"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." -Eden Philpotts


Does anybody know who said this, paraphrase, on aging,

"I feel like a child being told I have to go to bed during the best part of the movie."

I think Kevin Perot said that but Im not sure.

[VictorBjoerk]

aging is a tragedy isn't it?

- Sidney 101 years old

What is good with getting old,nothing!

- Marge 102 years old

I want to live forever, I don't want to die!

- Tomoji 112 years old

[missminni]

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
Abraham Lincoln

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
Eleanor Roosevelt

[cyborgdreamer]

"Live forever or die trying." - author unknown

"I choose life, because there's no other option." - Cyborgdreamer

[thefirstimmortal]

"I hate when people die, it let me realize how stupid we are" --Jonathan Despres

[thefirstimmortal]

Help Extropians to build the heaven some others only pray and die for.

[thefirstimmortal]

“The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson, from his Journal, July 1855

Edited by thefirstimmortal, 25 August 2008 - 02:36 AM.

[thefirstimmortal]

"We can no longer shield our minds from the possibility that physical immortality is within our grasp." - BJKlein

[thefirstimmortal]

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
-- Bertrand Russell

[thefirstimmortal]

“Something is impossible only if it violates a physical law. This is a basic tenet of
science. Living for 300 years doesn't violate a physical law, so it has always been
possible. It is a human failing to think that something we haven't yet done is impossible.”

[thefirstimmortal]

Life is often somewhat of a challenge whereas death is relatively easy. We can no longer embrace the idea that our local church holds all the answers yet be aware of the existence of thousands of other beliefs which people embrace as strongly as we embrace our own.

[thefirstimmortal]

It has often been said that you must learn to accept your death. This is not a message from God, but from people. It is a message that makes sense only if you believe that death is inevitable. Instead of accepting death, accept life.

[thefirstimmortal]

“The concept seems goofy, but surprisingly, Bowie manages to make a fairly
reasonable case for the possibility of endless life. He cites everything from the Bible to
quantum mechanics to bolster his case.”

[thefirstimmortal]

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

[brokenportal]

"We have no right to make that choice on behalf of future society by delaying the development of these therapies and thereby making them choose aging rather than having fewer kids. -Aubrey deGrey, BBC news

Aubrey deGrey responding to the idea that we should not go forth with life extension because it would cause over population.

Edited by brokenportal, 25 August 2008 - 03:04 AM.

[brokenportal]

“Silence, something about silence makes me sick, cuz silence can be violence sort of like a slit wrist.” -Rage Against the Machine

"Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late." - Thomas Sowell

"Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight." ~Albert Schweitzer

[thefirstimmortal]

I can think of millions of reasons to live, I fail to find one reason that would compel me to seek death. I ask of you, why should you want to die?

[thefirstimmortal]

I am always amazed that even still today there are people that will not concede it is better to be rich than poor, better to be bright than dull, better to be strong than weak, better to be free than regimented, or even that it is better to live than to die.

I believe that was a Robert Ettinger quote.

[thefirstimmortal]

One of my favorite Lewis Caroll Quotes.

"I mean," she (Alice) said, "that one can't help growing older."
"One can't, perhaps," said Humpty Dumpty, "but two can. With proper
assistance, you might have left off at seven."

Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland.

[thefirstimmortal]

There are many virtues to growing old. (Long Pause)

I am just trying hard to think what they are.

As much as we may wish otherwise, old age is an unpleasant and unattractive affliction. Some people, it is true, have been active and productive into very old age, but such people are exceptions. And I don't think anybody will argue that they were as vigorous in old age as in their youth. I have devoted much of my time and energy to the scientific investigation of aging because old age without intervention really isn't beautiful. The best that can be said of aging is that it is better than being dead.
Live Long and Well

[thefirstimmortal]

Behold, I shrew you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
1 Corinthians 15:51-53

[thefirstimmortal]

Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers. If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shrew unto man his uprightness,

[thefirstimmortal]

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
1 Corinthians 15:26

[thefirstimmortal]

Death is not a neutral event in nature, and certainly not a liberation of the soul from the imprisonment of the body, but the violent ending of a living unity, the destruction of the real man.

What the nature of this continuance will be, and how the mode of existence of the "departed soul," may be conceived, concerning these matters there is no substantiated human knowledge. And one can almost recognize the great minds by their abstaining from the claim to any such knowledge. We recognize them by their silence.

[thefirstimmortal]

He is YOUR God. They are YOUR Rules. YOU burn in Hell!

[thefirstimmortal]

The universe is an intelligence test. How much do you think you're going to score by dying?

[kismet]

"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt" (Catch 22)

"Our bodies break down, sometimes when we're 90, sometimes before were even born, but it always happens and there's never dignity in it...it's always ugly, always.


We can live with dignity, we can't die with it." (from the series House M.D.)

"Es macht mich glücklich, zu sehen, dass die Menschen den Gedanken an den Tod durchaus nicht denken wollen! Ich möchte gern Etwas dazu tun, ihnen den Gedanken an das Leben noch hundertmal denkenswerter zu machen." (Friedrich Nietzsche)

[John_Ventureville]

"Each Immortalist is in a race for his life and sadly many now alive will not win it"

John Grigg