{"id":621,"date":"2009-07-06T15:07:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T23:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/?p=621"},"modified":"2009-06-22T12:49:47","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T20:49:47","slug":"live-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2009\/07\/live-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are born in the year of 2044, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intellectualpornography.com\/2009\/06\/one-oclock-daily-the-trouble-with-modern-lifespans.html\">Michael Woods<\/a>.  (An unexpected benefit from sending Kid to a good school is to get to know\/hear\/read about her friends and professors.)  Michael optimistically predicted that him, and others born in the same year, will live to nearly 140 years on average!<\/p>\n<p>Several thoughts sprang to mind (call me pessimistic, Michael):<\/p>\n<ul type=\"square\">\n<li>My retirement fund assumed that I will die earlier.  Does this mean I need to kill myself then or work longer now?<\/li>\n<li>My doctor told me that the worst thing is <i>partial death<\/i>: some organs are about done and others are still going strong.  For example, I don&#8217;t want to have a good heart but bad lungs, strong legs but can&#8217;t see, perfect health except for no teeth, etc.<\/li>\n<li>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Time-Enough-Love-Robert-Heinlein\/dp\/0441810764\">Time Enough for Love<\/a> and several similar stories.  Living too long may not be a blessing.  Immortality is actually a curse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wait a minute.  I got ahead of myself.  I was not born in 1986. (&#8220;Ha!&#8221; Said Kid).  Sorry, I will proceed to die when I reach 78.06 years old.  Whew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are born in the year of 2044, according to Michael Woods. (An unexpected benefit from sending Kid to a good school is to get to know\/hear\/read about her friends and professors.) Michael optimistically predicted that him, and others &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/2009\/07\/live-forever\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":623,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nomadicminds.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}