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Subject: Re: I miss Gerry Quinn
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 17:41:16 -0400
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Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails of
the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>On 10/9/2024 11:10 AM, candycanearter07 wrote:
>> Mike S <Mike_S@nowhere.com> wrote at 14:27 this Wednesday (GMT):
>>> On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 21:40:07 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
>>> <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Neat! I hope yall don't drift away too :(
>>>
>>> I've been here for over 30 years. Only death is going to take me away.
>> 
>> 
>> Hopefully that doesn't happen too.
>
>I was just watching someone's standup on youtube where he asked the 
>question of something like "do you really want to live forever?"
>
>Half the audience answered no, the other half didn't respond.  There 
>were no yeses.
>
>I'm definitely old enough not to want to live forever.  If the world 
>were all fun and games, and I got to go back to being around 35 and in 
>perfect physical shape, I might consider it.

There was a story I read about 4 decades or so back.

Guy makes a deal with the devil and wishes for immortality and that he
cannot die unless he chooses to.
He figures he beat the devil and will never have to pay up.

Then he finds he still ages, still gets decrepit, but cannot die.

Couple hundred years down the line, he's basically a mummy, nothing
works, pain all the time.

Immortality at 25, full head of hair, thin, metabolism that lets you eat
anything, not disorders diseases or damage from accidents/football or
whatnot, sure thing.

Immortality at 60+ would mostly just fucking suck.

Xocyll