Advantages And Disavantages Of Having An Eternal Life

WHICH ARE THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF HAVING AN ETERNAL LIFE?

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Steve Jobs

Who has not ever longed to stop time, restore the beauty of their lost years and eliminate the traces left by the passing of time? But what is the price pay man has to pay to try and escape fate and live forever?, this price is affordable or value surpasses any benefit that can be obtained, or otherwise the consequences would only be small spines without any difference more than we already have to bear by fact being alive

But this age-old dream of humanity called eternity rings to happiness for some and for others sound like a nightmare that nobody wants to live is perhaps one of the largest and oldest wishes humanity has had, probably from his own existence. Achieving immortality was the goal of pharaohs, kings, chiefs, sultans, although it was not physically reached by any of them, it was indeed reached in a spiritual form.

That's why over time many authors who have had their own take on these questions, pose some of the greatest wish as a human being might have, as is the case of stories involving mythical characters, magician, elves and gods; other pose it as a great curse, as is the case that it sees in countless vampire stories.

Of course, this is a dream that is losing value with passing year, because the world is constantly changing and this means that the wishes of beings that inhabit also change and evolve.

Today perhaps many would prefer to have a short life but full of fame, it's amazing the things that humans would do to achieve their target, because for a minute of fame some are able to spend long periods in prison, this is the case of characters that getting naked on football fields, just to get a minute of fame

However, until recently as it had talked many humans want to achieve immortality, some through mystic fervor, others trivial way but considered with the same effectiveness, get eternity became an offer that began offering the churches where the vows of poverty were considered crucial so that could to get this goal, it is not surprising that these establishments have had a big boom accompanied by an enviable prosperity for any company of world

Well, but we return to our questions, having or no a eternal life, maybe is the most important question and it is around of this question that revolve the topic, but how to solve this question, is difficult to answer, although everybody achieves to be agree in the pro and cons of this situation as particular, as these pros and cons will not have the same weight for each person, because what for one person can be very bad for the other not so much and vice versa.

A view of this scenario, terrifying, wished, or the word that you wish to give is posed, in Oscar Wilde´s book The picture of Dorian Gray, in which he describes as Dorian aged by him, in addition to get all the physical damage suffered its own, without forgetting that this picture also deteriorated as his owner committed acts that degrade their spirit

It achieved keeping him young for eternity, which brought serious consequences because their spirit is full of ambition and obsession with her beauty (a classic narcissist complex) which was increased by his friend Lord Henry Wotton who showed him a hedonistic view of life, all that corruption and decay was

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