New Tech Is Giving Humanity Many Potential Paths to Immortality

"This dilemma is reminiscent of Ovid’s Cumaean Sibyl: 

 

 

she asked for eternal life rather than eternal youth. Apollo, therefore, let her rot — but kept her alive until she deteriorated into being kept in a jar, when she became only a voice.

 

 

 Taking the story’s moral to heart, we must constantly consider what we are wishing to achieve by attaining eternal life: whether this journey is towards a tangible and positive gain or whether we are simply scared of dying. 

 

 

Hopefully it is the former, or else we run the risk of being nothing more than a voice in a jar, an imitation of life."