Most people don't have a death wish.
Do you have a personal plan to achieve immortality? Unless mentally unbalanced, death is something most would prefer to avoid. Now in my mid-60s, I'm beginning to think I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, and it's no doubt an oncoming train.
Death is an emotional topic, so I want to lighten the mood. I've had fun with this post, going wild with the emojis. I hope, despite the somber topic, you'll have some fun too.
If I've done my job, this article should raise a lot of questions.
Unstoppable Time...
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Time is fun when you're having flies...⏳🕰️⏱️📅
It's less fun when you realize you have no control over it. We can't stop the hourglass, or the clock, or the calendar... Seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, decades, a century? They pass us by relentlessly, and then, Bye-Bye!
Death is a train that's 🚅 heading our way. ☠️⚰️⚱️
But, are we ready to die? Throughout the centuries, and now with increasing vigor, people have sought ways to extend their lives.
Death is like a high-speed train, headed our way
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"Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die." 🎉🎈
Death is inevitable, so why worry? Just party the night away, enjoy whatever life we have. We may all cop this attitude occasionally, and perhaps we suppress thoughts of death much of the time. But then, in the wee hours, those haunting thoughts return. We will face death.
What if we stop killing ourselves? 🍔🍟🌭🍕🍿🍩🍬🍪🍨🍺🍻🍷🍸🍹🚬🏴🕯️
Maybe if we quit eating that junk food? Ah, but it tastes so good! What if we cut down on our drinking? Dry out our liver? Take better care of ourselves?
Some try exercise. ⛱️🏄⛷️⚽🏋️🌊🏊🏖️
Use it or lose it! Pump that iron! Enjoy surf, sun,and sand. Get some fresh mountain air. Hike, backpack, breathe deeply. Jog that trail, fire up the treadmill, dust off the weights. These may all extend our lives a bit.
Eat 🍑🍐 and drink🍌🍆 healthful🍇🍋 things. 🍒🍓🍎🍉🌽🍊🍍🍅🚰
Eat more organic foods, eliminate toxins from our diet. Drink alkaline water. Fresh, raw fruits and vegetables contain restorative nutrients. Juicing may be part of a vibrant lifestyle. An industry has grown up around "nutraceuticals," natural replacements for drugs. All may add years to our lives.
Maybe medicinal herbs will help?🌶️🍄
Cayenne peppers are reputed to have healed cancer. Certain mushrooms are said to contain outrageous amounts of antioxidants. There is CoQ-10, resveratrol, pine bark, yams, chia seed; the list goes on and on and on.
Spend $$$💰 on medical professionals and rejuvenating drugs. 😷🏥💉💊
Have our blood pressure checked. Get our serum tested. Are we managing our anger? Wear our filter mask... germaphobia strikes deep.
A Body Repair Shop
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Research longevity, find a solution? 📖📜📚🔬⚗️✂️⚖️📈🔍📻🔎📺💽💡🗺️🌎🌍🌏🌐
How about lengthening those telomeres? Cleanse and renew, flush the toxins out of our systems! Every cell in the human body is replaced over the course of seven years... Why not replace them with good, young ones?
Have we missed some ancient wisdom? Scour the globe! Maybe in the medical library stacks we'll find the 🔑key... 🔓Maybe we'll discover the genius idea 💡that will keep us alive.
Science Fiction suggests consciousness might be transferred? 💻
Shall we scan our brain, recording each neuron?💭 Might we transfer our mental state into some computer memory fabric? Could we live forever in a box? Would we want to?
What about identity? Would such copies be us or would we now be twins? What, exactly, makes me "me?"
Do we really live on in memories, or in our children, or our works? 👪🚸🎖️📚🏅📖📓
Our friends and family will remember us — for a while — when we're gone... but we're still gone. Our children may carry our genes, but they each have their own identities, not ours. Books we write, our Steemit articles, our inventions may remain in the world continuing to do some good, but our consciousness is no longer here.
Some get religion... 📿✝️☦️⛪🛐🕍🕌
We head on down to our nearest church, synagogue, or mosque. We say a few prayers, practice a few rituals, drop some coin in the collection. Maybe we believe; maybe we're just trying to hedge our bets.
Others turn to fortune tellers. 🔮
With trepidation, we try to peer into the future. Gypsies, fortune tellers, tarot cards. What will happen to me tomorrow? Can I avoid that accident? Even if we are in perfect youth and health, the risk of death may still lurk right around the corner.
🚀Could E.T. provide us with the secret? 🔭
Perhaps an advanced, spacefaring civilization will show up and give us the technology we need for eternal life. Who knows?
Time for a tune-up...
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Despite all the frenetic efforts made to date,
the longest anyone in recent history has lived is about 122 years. That's not quite twice the median age at death. Just how promising does that sound to you? Personally speaking, I'm underwhelmed. And, even if we could extend our physical lives and health indefinitely, what about accidents? Tidal waves? Earthquakes? Murder? The list of risks is endless. Yet we keep seeking, keep hoping, for eternal life.
Don't feel alone in your quest!
Everyone, from the poorest among us, to the rich and famous would like to live forever. Consider this famous quote:
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." - Woody Allen
We couldn't agree with you more, Woody... but who's going to help us with that? How can we achieve immortality?
Ready or Not, Death Is Headed Our Way
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We've briefly considered a vast list of efforts and options to extend our lives. In the final analysis, none that we've considered thus far have been truly satisfactory...
But, what if immortality were a gift? 🎁
What if we didn't have to spend our entire lives fearing death? What if we didn't have to frenetically strive to hold the grim reaper at bay? Here is what the most famous person of all time, The Man who divides our reckoning of the centuries into two eras, had to say about the matter:
"I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand." - Jesus
Jesus is The Man. He's the One to Whom I look for immortality. This is not religion, this is a relationship. Jesus knows me, inside and out because He made me:
you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them."
- Psalm 139:13-16
Who better to turn to for repair, reconstruction, revitalization, reintegration, resurrection, than the One Who designed and created me? Who else can I rely on to insure the continuity of my consciousness, my personal identity?
I invite you, my reading friend,
to consider Jesus' free offer of immortality. Wouldn't you like to live forever? If you could, wouldn't that be really good news?
I wouldn't be here on Steemit if it weren't for you, my readers!
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