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Originally Posted by williamhessian  However, in the back of my head, I am always pondering how to stay alive forever. Religious and fundamental implications aside, I can't get over the urge to avoid death. As if it was a disase.
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It is a basic instinct of all animals built into their brain stems to stay alive.
The 'disease' you talk about above, ironically, will kill you through the medium of stress or cancer.
I tend to look at it like this. I believe when we die we are dead in all senses of the word; no afterlife; no soul etcetera.
However for me, my life comes secondary now to my childrens as I have passed on my genes to them and therefore genetically I have survived already my generation. As a person who generally susbcribes to the philosophy that our world is wholly material, the gene transfer into future generations is the equivelant of reaching 'heaven', in my opinion.