I'm currently watching the third Pirates of the Caribbean, and it got me thinking (don't worry, I won't spoil the movie for ya). Seriously, if you even had the option, would you want to live forever?

Life really only has meaning for us, specifically because it ends. Even knowing that, we tend to take it for granted (at least, on occasion).

In knowing that our time in this life is limited, we come to appreciate the time we have. If it went on forever, what would there be to truly appreciate? Never mind the fact that it would be just plain boring.

And yet, though we may understand that all life must end in order to start anew and give life itself meaning, we search endlessly for ways to cheat death.

We fear that which we do not know, and death is the ultimate in the realm of the unknowable. Rather then looking at it through the eyes of Peter Pan, "death will be an awfully big adventure (smile spread across face)", we look at it as something we should waste our precious little time futilely attempting to figure a way out of.

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