If you could live forever, would you?

    Yes, I think I would.  I have an insatiable curiosity about the Universe, and I would love to live long enough to see worlds beyond the Solar System, watch the development of the Integral wave of consciousness, and the one after that, and the one after that.  And if I live long enough, I might see the Cubs win the World Series.  (I so wish I could put "Red Sox" in that sentence, but that ship has sailed, I'm afraid.)

    I have no illusion that an extremely long life is related to becoming happier, although one would hope that centuries of meditation would help to calm down such desires.

    Ultimately, long life means a longer time to serve the world in some capacity, and as long as I still can serve, why not be alive?  Besides, if Ray Kurzweil is correct, we might come a lot closer to this than most people think right now... and I think he's right.