>> I personally don't expect to die of old age. > Something said, I suspect, by every young person since the time of Hammurabi. I suppose that expecting to liv

>> I personally don't expect to die of old age. > Something said, I suspect, by every young person since the time of Hammurabi. I suppose that expecting to live forever in this world is no more irrational than expecting eternal life in another world. One could argue that this is the crux of the world's oldest story, "The Epic of Gilgamesh".