I plan to live forever

[FadingW]

I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years. Even five hundred would be pretty nice.

— CEO Nwabudike Morgan

If eternal life (at your prime or chosen 'age') is possible, would it even be desirable?

Is life only meaningful because of death?

Or are some things so worth doing that they are worth doing for a thousand years?

The thought of existing so long all the stars wink out and looking forward to nothing but an empty void is not appealing to me, but if medical advances permit, I would not mind living 500 years.

[Minimalist]

I go nuts trying to figure out how to use my cell phone now. What will they be like in 500 years?

No thanks.

[fr0d0]

Haha

I'd love to live longer - I just can't stand the thought of missing stuff... technological progress for example.

[Eiskalt]

I think it would be cool to live 500+ years.

But while this is brought up, it makes me want to bring up how in the Bible, supposedly some of the people in there lived for over 300+ years.

***Enoch lived 365 years walking with God and then disappeared. Could possibly still be living. Maybe taken away by God like Elijah but not noted. This is spoken of in Genesis 5:23 & 24
1. Methuselah - 969 Genesis 5:27
2. Jared - 962 Genesis 5:20
3. Noah - 950 Genesis 9:29
4. Adam - 930 Genesis 5:5
5. Seth - 912 Genesis 5:8
6. Kenan - 910 Genesis 5:14
7. Enosh - 905 Genesis 5:11
8. Mahalalel - 895 Genesis 5:17
9. Lamech - 777 Genesis 5:31
~ http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Ten_oldest_peo..._the_Bible

[fr0d0]

I'd like to know too. Either years weren't 364/5 days long or a life meant one than one person.

[Tiberius]

I want to live as long as I want to. If everything suddenly gets boring I'd end it, but until then, I wouldn't mind immortality.

[Eiskalt]

I'd like to know too. Either years weren't 364/5 days long or a life meant one than one person.

From what I know, the days where still the same and it appears to be just one person.

[fr0d0]

Wikipedia has some info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah

Mistranslation

Some believe that Methuselah's extreme age is the result of an ancient mistranslation that converted "months" to "years", producing a more credible 969 lunar months, or 78½ years, but the same calculation applied to Enoch would have him fathering Methuselah at the age of 5 using numbers from the Masoretic Text. Using the Septuagint numbers, Enoch's 165 months in a ten month calendar would be 16½ years, and Methuselah's 969 would be 96.9.

Symbolic

Symbolic interpretations begin with the observation that the Biblical chronology routinely uses numbers for their symbolic value: for example, 10 symbolizes completion, 8 symbolizes the mundane world, and 7 the divine. So Methuselah's father Enoch, who does not die but is taken by God, is the seventh patriarch, and Methuselah, the eighth, dies in the year of the Flood, which ends the ten-generational sequence from Adam to Noah, in whose time the world is destroyed.

I'd go with these rather than the literal interpretation.

[Eiskalt]

Well in that case, that makes more sense. o3o

[Darwinian]

Subtle point but you can't live forever because 'forever', like 'eternity' and 'infinity' is a destination that can never be reached.

However, I'd quite like to never cease to exist