Response to Cronin's question

Q "When you can live forever, what do you live for?"

If I were to choose immortality, I would simply do it for all the experiences that I would not be able to have with the normal, human lifespan(which is much too short in my opinion). I would travel as much as possible, and study different subjects at a all different schools. I am interested in almost every possible major, and so wish that I could study all of them. I would, overtime, learn how to play all sorts different instruments and work on a variety of other artistic skills. I would meet generations of different people, and form memorable relationships with them. In a way, having immortality could be looked at as having many consecutive lives rather than one endless one. There are so many different cultures and lifestyles in the world that it would not be possible to experience them all in one human lifetime. I would have the opportunity to see the world change overtime, over a much larger span than I would otherwise. I would take more chances, not fearing death. Honestly, I don't think I choose immortality in reality, it would be much too sad to see all the people I meet grow old and die. I think it would be unsettling to see all the places I have lived change so much while I remain the same. Though it would be fantastic and wonderful to have an infinite number of experiences, it just seems unnatural. Maybe if I could just extend my life an extra couple hundred years or so...

Q:What do you think is the ideal lifespan? (Disregarding all the spacial problems that would arise from each human on earth living three or four times their expected lifespan... but maybe people would have fewer children if this were the case, and wait longer to have them...hmm this could be a huge benifit to society, we would have more experienced people having children, and possibly an overall more intelligent/ progressive race.. or maybe not. Soory for going off on another tangent, but you are welcome to comment on that thought if you so wish.)