Life is too short, but eternity is daunting. Once you have the good food and sex and safety and entertainment, you want, maybe, true love and genuine respect. And when you have all that, there's a desire to have an impact on society, or leave a legacy or ensure a good future for your children. A lot of what we consider 'higher-order' desires are predicated on mortality. What happens to those when if you wait a trillion trillion trillion years there's still plent of time to get around to 'what you really want to do' eventurally?
That said, I wouldn't turn down an afterlife of hedonism and distraction...as long as there was an escape clause.
That said, I wouldn't turn down an afterlife of hedonism and distraction...as long as there was an escape clause.