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Life. Life is short, life is temporary, like a lighted candle which flickers and then is snuffed out. The effect that each life has on every other is small, insignificant even. Even if you are on national television, what effect does it have. Certainly the only people affected are those who see you. You have no effect, and never will, on areas beyond our confined world which will eventually die like every other world, every other civilization before it. The human is born, learns, works and dies, his only final achievement being producing one more generation. No matter what his deeds are, they die with him and are obscured, even forgotten, with the passage of time. Sure, your triumphs live on in other people who they affected, but after they die, who is left. Fate for anyone who dies is always the same, they are forgotten. Events are forgotten, achievements are forgotten, even failures are forgotten. At most a tombstone or a book or a memorial are left to commemorate a person. Since the beginning of time, man has struggled for a way to continue living. He has developed religion, a belief that says he lives on, even after death, but what good does that do? Even if there truly is a heaven and hell, what effect does it have on the people left behind? It is impossible to make physical contact with the dead and thus it is unimportant whether we live on else where after death. Now I ask you, what if immortality were a possibility. Would you accept it? Would you lead a normal life and then perish like all before you? The prospect of immortality presents questions that man has asked himself for thousands of years, but still is unable to answer. Chances are there will never be an answer. But still, I present to you the question, what if you did not have to die? If immortality were possible, there would almost definitely be a way to preserve youth. The prospect of seeing the future happen is bate enough for most people to wish for immortality. But what if, there truly is a heaven? Then don�t we ultimately lose out on the chance to live in eternal happiness. Would we take the chance to never see heaven in favor of living life on Earth. To accept immortality on Earth means a definite eternal life, but no guarantee of happiness in this ever volatile world. On the other hand, what if life ends at death, then we have missed our chance at eternal life only to die in vain, like the generation before us. Or worse yet, what if our destiny is hell, then we have missed the chance at eternal life on Earthwith the possibility of happiness only to gain eternal suffering. Imagine the trials of an immortal life, never knowing fear, having no cares or worries. Life would attain a level of dullness we have never before imagined. With no fear of death people would become bored and probably even wish for death even though it will never come no matter how much they desire it. On the other hand, all of life�s questions could be answered, experiments never before possible would be able to take place, with the scientists who originally created them being able to observe their findings 500 years later. War would become impossible because the main motivation behind war is to kill your enemy and with that possibility eliminated it would be pointless. Exploration to far off galaxies would be simple, all we would need to do would be to propel a person towads the planet, they would not risk dying in transit. I leave you with Hamlet�s famous quote �to be or not to be, that is the question...�. To live eternally and to endure the slings and arrows of a thousand natural shocks to which the flesh is prone or to allow death to take its course as it has for hundreds of years. This is the question which I present to you. There is no true answer, there never will be. To question our motives in life is what this is meant to do. Are we secure in our religion to a point that we would choose death and heaven without question or are we still nervous about the prospect of dying. To truly ask ourselves this question, without predetermining the answer whether it be God and the grave or eternal life, tells us what kind of people we truly are and what we truly value. So which will it be? The choice my friends, is yours.
--- ~Po
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