Living Forever: A Limitless Life?

Living forever. A limitless life?

You are alive. You breathe, you exhale. The air was purified by nature. ‘Nature’… What a vivid concept. What is nature? Nature is the world as a collection. The plants, the animals, the humans, the waterfalls you dearly appreciate, the air you breathe. The world… What a vivid container. It’s an ‘endless’ space for the animated beings. Endless… What a vivid constraint. Is it a constraint at all? Is the world truly endless? Limitless? This is the container we live in; yet the sky is limitless. Nature proves to be a constant. Endless and recursive animation. Are we truly alive? Who deemed it as a Boolean answer? Why not… ‘Maybe’?

Let’s breakdown the universe. The planets, moons, particles… the list is endless. You are one strand in a massive gene pool. You are a prodigy. There’s only ‘one of you’ and that’s a truth you cannot prove otherwise, unless you are a twin of course… But then again each of you is a prodigy. Every human being is unique. Every human being is an origin of its own kind. We live our years and we pass away. Suddenly we lose a prodigy. The lineage may go on but the unique strand is now lost. You lived and you died. People might have comprehended your existence while you lasted but it is now void and null. You no longer exist. Isn’t this a limitation? Is it against ‘nature’ to live forever? What if you lived forever? Would you have lived your life better, knowing that you’ll last forever or would you have exhausted yourself with procrastination, knowing that there’s always a day tomorrow? You are limitless. You are a limitless Prodigy.

Nature has its way of balancing things. A living being dies while another is originated. The cycle goes on and none of us can avoid it or hinder the process. This is deemed as a constant and everyone agreed with it up until the dawn of Computers. Suddenly, everything seemed ‘possible’ and suddenly humans were concentrating more on building machines that were able to perform a specific task better than a human contender. Technology made us believe that ‘everything had an answer’. This brings us back to the main topic: Can we live forever?

The simple answer is: We already do. Think about it, Life Support Machines prolong the life of a dying patient thus keeping him/her alive as much as it can. Remove the support and there you have it, nature would balance the life cycle again. Are we not hindering the natural process already? Think about it, with the advancement of technology certain cures enable patients to avoid cancer or other such deadly diseases which were once deemed as ‘incurable’ or ‘deadly as it gets’. Are we not hindering the natural process already? This might not be the magical portion or the elixir of life that you have in mind but we are already cheating death and it’s a matter of time until we fix synthetic spines to replace damaged human spines or replace damaged internal body parts with synthetic components that prolong our existence.

Dinuka Jayasuriya