If Life is Meaningless Anyway, then What's Wrong with Religion?

[henryp]

The 3rd option to unhappy and/or mentally challenge, is that the future does not offer much promise.  At 100, you can be content, but know that there isn't much positive coming your way, and decide to call it quits.

Psychologically, it's impossible to know how the effects of living hundreds or thousands of years would wear on your future outlook.  We see people get tired of individual things that seem pretty great in a matter of hours.  I would assume, after awhile, that might apply to living as well.

No, that's under unhappy. You are unhappy about your prospects in that scenario.

I don't know how content you think the average 100 year old is compared to a twenty year old like me, but I can assure you not very. In the future this might change for a hundred year old person, thus removing at least one of the reasons why someone might want to end it all. We might get to the point where a person is several centuries old and yet functionally just as healthy, energetic and handsome as a thirty year-old is right now.

You're putting a lot under the 'unhappy' umbrella there.  

I'm on a nice picnic with the family.  We have a nice long day together.  But it looks like rain.  We don't want to get caught out in the rain, so we head home.  We are all in a good mood, because it was a great day.  

You can say we are 'unhappy' at the prospect of being out in the rain, therefore we went home because we were unhappy.  But that's such a broad stroke, I think it losing a lot of meaning.  Especially, as we're all happy as we're heading home.