The Methuselah Foundation: dedicated to eliminating human aging and helping YOU live forever.

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You know, the problem with the whole "physical immortality" technomagic is that someday the Earth will die, someday the Sun will burn out, and the Universe will either ultimately collapse upon itself or expand forever into heat death. This is to say: even physical immortality still chains us to this Universe, which is doomed. You're really just putting off the inevitable.

What we need is physical immortality AND the ability to hop universes, and an invincible invasion squad to help us conquer any good-seeming universe we hop to.

Lately I've been thinking that I'm wrong, that there is some mystical Heaven waiting for us after we die, but when we get there the dude's just going to say, "Yeah, Heaven's great, huh? Too bad it's only got a hundred years left."