Immortality, the fountain of youth, the holy grail, the ability to live forever. This has been the dream of the rich the powerful and the affluent for centuries, but would you like to live forever?
There is a story from Russia from the middle ages of an old soldier, who after travelling home from a distant war acquires a sack which can trap anything that he calls into it.
Years later, on his death bed, he sees death standing at the head of his bed. Fearing what lay beyond his death he holds the sack up and calls death into it. He has done it, he has cheated death, he has trapped death in his sack. But nothing died, anywhere anytime. Months later the poor and starving, old and invalid come to him and beg him to release death, so that death may come and take them, releasing them from their suffering. Their cries moved him so much that he released death, and asked death to take him and put the world to rights.
However death was angry with the soldier and not take him. From that time on he was doomed to walk the earth, seeing all those around grow old and die but he never did. He never aged and he never died. He walks the earth to this day.
So my question is, If you (and only you) could live forever would you want to?
Remember, it is not for a thousand or ten thousand years, but forever, till the end of time.
Serious answers only please.
Thanks.
2007-05-02
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Arthur N
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