Would We Want to Live Forever?

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  • What if we could live forever? Neil deGrasse Tyson takes us through life and death: if we could live forever what would life really mean? We explore why fresh flowers have meaning and why dogs make every day count. Learn about the Cretaceous-Tertiary Event, The Permian-Triassic Extinction, The Holocene Epoc, and how Earth is one killing machine.
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    00:00 - Introduction: Life & Death
    00:14 - What If We Could Live Forever?
    2:26 - Flowers & Dogs
    5:10 - Prehistoric Extinctions & Earth as a Killing Machine
    6:47 - The Holocene Epoc
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  • @StarTalk
    @StarTalk  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +460

    Who else is thinking about their childhood dog now? 😢

    • @englewoodmusic
      @englewoodmusic 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      I'm thinking about ALL my fur babies I've lost.

    • @johnathanmartin1504
      @johnathanmartin1504 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      I rarely disagree with Neil, but this is one of those times that I greatly disagree with him. Someone saying they would not want to live forever because they would be "bored" or unmotivated seems extremely selfish to me. If you run out of things to do (something I think is preposterous) you can still teach at the very least. You can also still create. Death has never motivated me other than desperately wanting to stop it, it has taken far too much from me and I will see it defeated. Death makes everything worthless.
      As to the flowers "not being real" that's also ridiculous. If someone could have flowers that smelled like flowers and were for all intents and purposes flowers with the exception that they don't wilt and decay, I don't think anyone is going to be boycotting all flowers because they want rotting flowers. The whole thing reeks of romanticist nonsense. Neil deGrasse Tyson should know better.

    • @ROBERT-ml7ml
      @ROBERT-ml7ml 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      ​@@johnathanmartin1504 yeah, good luck trying to stop death 😂

    • @ROBERT-ml7ml
      @ROBERT-ml7ml 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      LIVE LIFE!

    • @johnathanmartin1504
      @johnathanmartin1504 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      @@ROBERT-ml7ml I'm a molecular biologist, I'm also not the only one working on this. It's become a massive industry and defeating old age is now inevitable unless humanity gets wiped out somehow. That you think it's ridiculous to try only shows me how uninformed you are about current technological breakthroughs. We will get there before the end of this century.

  • @sethschexneider
    @sethschexneider 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +452

    My dad died yesterday and I needed this video. Thanks Neil.

    • @k8tina
      @k8tina 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      So sorry for your loss 💔

    • @brizzle3903
      @brizzle3903 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      I’m sorry for your loss ❤️ May he rest in peace

    • @rahulchaudhary6740
      @rahulchaudhary6740 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Condolences brother

    • @matthews8799
      @matthews8799 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why did you need this video?

    • @HackerPULSE90
      @HackerPULSE90 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@matthews8799 for comfort surely

  • @PatrickGoodspeed
    @PatrickGoodspeed 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +381

    Life seems all too short to me. It feels like I'm just starting my life and I'm almost 60. I don't know if I'd want to live forever but I would like the choice of being able to live as long as I choose to. I feel probably we would evolve over time and become more developed than we could imagine in our short lives.

    • @tracimcmurray5244
      @tracimcmurray5244 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      At age 51, I agree. 😊

    • @douggolden255
      @douggolden255 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      On the other hand, a lot of us seem to get dumber as we age.
      If you live forever, do you live as your pristine self or do you live most of it like a 75 year old equivalent?

    • @erwinzer0
      @erwinzer0 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      ​@@douggolden255that's simply aging-related, if we solve aging, our mental plasticity would perform as well as healthy adult

    • @jeffreyanderson6740
      @jeffreyanderson6740 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      No one actually knows what really happens but i believe we exist forever. As for live forever? Sure you could say exist forever means live forever ♾️ but even if we die and nothing we'll never know there was actually going to be nothing, because the idea of something afterwards is so wildly entertained and even if there is truly nothing then none of us will be anything once we've died so we'll not know anyway anything even that there was actually nothing.

    • @emreeren13
      @emreeren13 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Exactly my thoughts my friend. And yes, of course we'd develop. Imagine living 200 years ago at old age and how we do today. It's insane. But yes, how someone said before, we would probably be able to chose an age and stay forever like this, in this hypothetical positive future. I mean genetic engineering is currently going that way. Now imagine all the technologies we could have that we don't know of (and at current state, we can't even predict technology in 10 years). That's just crazy to think about.

  • @Th3GreenMachine
    @Th3GreenMachine 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +168

    My dog died this week, I think I needed this

    • @timc333
      @timc333 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      It's all about the timing , I found out this week that an estranged old high school friend who I had many fine adventures with many years ago had died last March . I've been in a weird space the past few days , for some reason been seeing alot of stuff trying to explain death to me . I'm not sure it is death that I need explained to me , but rather life .

    • @kimsland999
      @kimsland999 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Getting older you see many pets die, and friends, family and Mom & Dad (mine now gone of course). I remember my dog Ruff, he died (well he ran away to die) an extreme loving dog, he died ... about 45 years ago now. Even now I'm saddened by this, along with my loving cat.
      Pets help children to accept death as part of life. But its never an easy time.
      I bought a puppy for my son and a cat for my daughter (so was the claimed stewards). Both pets now gone. Again extremely sad. My daughter still has her cat's ashes, she wants to be buried with them (one day).
      I hear you when your loving pet dies. And yes people (once as kids) who I have heard are now gone. It still hurts (a lot) we just learn to live with it.
      I'm sorry to hear your dog your friend has also gone. I feel your pain.

    • @k8tina
      @k8tina 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Sorry for your loss 💔 Our furrychildren are such a beautiful part of our lives.

    • @kirillsleptsov1680
      @kirillsleptsov1680 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      May it rest in peace

    • @donkey3187
      @donkey3187 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It doesnt really work with dogs dude. lool

  • @brian1204
    @brian1204 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

    I don’t know about “forever”, but at least until I’m ready!

    • @theshadow532
      @theshadow532 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Then You're never be ready

    • @evieswegsda1089
      @evieswegsda1089 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Same with me, I Would Want to Live as Long as I Want (at Least Until I'm Ready to Go), but I'm Not Sure About "Forever"

  • @IamKnucks
    @IamKnucks 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +141

    I don't know if I would like to live forever, but I love my life right now. I have the best wife, a wonderful daughter and a stable financial situation. I don't want this ride to end anytime soon.

    • @emreeren13
      @emreeren13 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yea then why not live 200 years and decide again?

    • @farhanfouadacca
      @farhanfouadacca 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Totally agreed but that’s not how nature works. A person in good situation would die sooner and a person in exact reversed scenario will live well past 90.

    • @bretttaylor3787
      @bretttaylor3787 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      You are lucky. Most our success (not including the incalculable odds of being born) depends on which country you were born in. And then what gifts you were given, and your physical and mental health. I’m genuinely happy for you and I wish more people were in your position.

    • @emreeren13
      @emreeren13 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@bretttaylor3787 Hypothetically, you could have all that in distant future, thank's to technology (in case we survive that long). So then, why not live forever?

    • @learnpianofastonline
      @learnpianofastonline 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      I am 59 years old, and I’ve never experienced a deep, loving meaning for relationship. But I am in very good health, and I am just now starting to figure out how to get good with women, so I’d like to live to be at at least 300! That would give me enough time to learn game and figure out how to get rich .

  • @ruymanbr
    @ruymanbr 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +75

    More of this reading with Neil!!! I could hear him all day long :)

    • @gsthMD7099
      @gsthMD7099 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I agree!

    • @grayfoxart2268
      @grayfoxart2268 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nope, don't want to hear from a guy who doesn't even know the differences between a man and a woman. Let alone lecture about death

    • @iloveslotvideos1188
      @iloveslotvideos1188 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@grayfoxart2268 ? But why are you here then? 😂

    • @CaptainVideo75
      @CaptainVideo75 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​But yet you're here. So either you are full of it or just a troll. Might want to rethink your comments before posting. You sound dumb. ​@@grayfoxart2268

  • @Xretsam
    @Xretsam 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +81

    i will happily become stardust once again. no need to live forever... i do...

    • @RedcoatViking_Official
      @RedcoatViking_Official 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      I'm with you on this one! Gonna get my stardust all up in your stardust 😆😆

    • @emreeren13
      @emreeren13 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      But you will. Forever.
      As stardust, you will always be part of everything. As once before you, everything of you was in a star. And the cycle goes on and on. Therefore, since the beginning of time... we were here... and we will always be here. Doesn't matter which forms and shapes we take.
      In the end you could say: Everything was stardust at one point of it's existence.

    • @k8tina
      @k8tina 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      My father, before he passed away in 2015, basically said the same exact thing.

    • @brian1204
      @brian1204 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      “You” will not become stardust. Your component atoms may at some point in a billion years or so, but who you consider to be you, your distinct sense of self, will (most likely) disappear when your body dies.

    • @anonymous-zn2iv
      @anonymous-zn2iv 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@k8tina So in a way we never die. Like energy cannot be destroyed but changes form.

  • @thedant0r85
    @thedant0r85 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +181

    Without even starting to listen: Yes. i would like to life forever, or rather: Would like to choose the place and time to truly die for myself.
    When i feel it, when i have seen it all, when i have reached my limit and cannot continue to grow without passing what i know in the the next generation because i feel i lack a certain point of view to do so. I decide the successor and my passing. That would be the best of both worlds for me.

    • @thedant0r85
      @thedant0r85 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      After listen to this video: I still want to live forever. Yes. you could do things tomorrow instead of today. But the world moves and the flow of things will take you along. The ground under your feet does not live forever and your own curiosity of what you might miss out will take you to places yet even unseen for the ones that live forever, because the world is forever ever changing :D

    • @reportedstolen3603
      @reportedstolen3603 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      How would you ever know you seen it all? It’s unknowable.. so you’ll meet your end the same as everyone else. I don’t think people can comprehend “forever”

    • @rudy_4ier
      @rudy_4ier 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      not necessarily forever, but I'd want to live indefinitely

    • @KaeL111
      @KaeL111 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@thedant0r85 Thank you for writing this for me, so I didn't have to ;) Cheers, brother wannabe-immortal! ;)

    • @AldrianCG
      @AldrianCG 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      You would, but the sun won’t. What'cha gonna do brother?!! What'cha gonna do when the sun run wild scorching his way on to you?

  • @marekjureczko9551
    @marekjureczko9551 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +107

    what people want is not immortality, but a life of good health at the peak of their physical abilities until death.

    • @atlanciaza
      @atlanciaza 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Not me, I want immortality, at any and all cost, even if that means I will not be healthy, and have no physical ability. Even just the idea of giving up my consciousness is unfathomable for me. I want to see the last stars in the universe burn out, I want to see the last black holes in the universe finally evaporate.

    • @jimigustafs3757
      @jimigustafs3757 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      ​@@atlanciaza I completely agree with you. I would also do nearly whatever it takes to get immortal. There is so much life has to offer for us that there is no way we can do all the things we want in this short amount of time we have on earth. I study biology and specifically genetics and hope to discover something that does give us more time on this planet.
      I do not understand people who do not fear death, and to me life has more meaning if you live forever than if you do not, because you will not remember anything you did on this planet after you die so why bother doing anything meaningful at all.
      After 1000 years there would certainly be nobody who cared what I had done or who I were, but if I would live forever I would always be concious of what I have done (and my friends and family too if they too lived forever) and what I want to do in the future and have no limitations on how long the things i would like to do would take, so of course I would also have higher expectations on what I would like to accomplish and given the infinite time I would also be able to do it and remember it forever.
      (Sorry for bad english , I am from Finland)

    • @bryandungee1029
      @bryandungee1029 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@atlanciaza… why would you wanna be living if you can’t be yourself or enjoy anything other than waking up???

    • @GK-ku3zv
      @GK-ku3zv 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@atlanciaza I can do that in the after life because I will be built to handle it as designed by the universe. This is just a pit stop on the way to better.

    • @Yuri-nc9vl
      @Yuri-nc9vl 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@atlanciazaI suppose you are healthy now, make this comment again then you'll not be healthy anynmore!

  • @donlakakwaaijazz5220
    @donlakakwaaijazz5220 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I am 66 years old, and strangely, I no longer fear death, my mother is 94 years old, and my grandmother died at 105; what I have also learned from them is that their mind has prepared them to go anytime, and they start talking about being tired. I am just wondering if those that lived generations back when life was short, did they have the same feelings as older people today

    • @wildthings980
      @wildthings980 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Life wasn't short. Infant death was common which lowered the average life span. My grandfather who lived in the 1600s died at 105 yr old.

    • @evieswegsda1089
      @evieswegsda1089 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Life can be too short for some people, an average life expectancy of at least 85 years would probably be a good start, to make it feel less as if life is too short

  • @silviavalentine3812
    @silviavalentine3812 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    Before I even watch this I want to say this: I only am here for one goal and I only have so many days before I get too old to accomplish it. If given the chance to extend my life while keeping my intelligence and memories intact, I would gladly take it. Just so I can have more time.

    • @ThaRiddler25
      @ThaRiddler25 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And watch all your loved ones die one by one while you’re forced to live a new life over and over?

    • @silviavalentine3812
      @silviavalentine3812 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ThaRiddler25 you're defining a life being with loved ones. That's cute but in no do I abide by those normie ideals. Not since I've been cursed by solipsism

    • @ThaRiddler25
      @ThaRiddler25 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@silviavalentine3812 so what’s the goal?

    • @andyjoubert9410
      @andyjoubert9410 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Why must there be a goal ?

    • @silviavalentine3812
      @silviavalentine3812 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@andyjoubert9410 because I have something that drives me towards that goal due to the sheer amount of suffering it causes.

  • @Anonymous-md2qp
    @Anonymous-md2qp 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +79

    I didn’t choose to be born. The monotony of paying taxes, mortgages, sitting in traffic, cooking, cleaning etc gets old really quickly. There is absolutely no way I would want this to continue forever.

    • @gabrielford3473
      @gabrielford3473 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      Life can and should be a lot more than the aforementioned activities. But if that was how i saw my life, I wouldn't be excited for more, either.

    • @allawa
      @allawa 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      so true man so true

    • @kingbr47
      @kingbr47 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      i dont think we would worry about this stuff if we lived forever though. I would say most of them are the undesired result of having a finite life.

    • @thewb8329
      @thewb8329 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The bitter makes the sweet sweeter.

    • @TheMissiIe
      @TheMissiIe 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      You do know that living forever, you can easily make billions and then be 100% carefree?
      Just put 6 months salary in the USX 500 for 100 years

  • @leeoflincoln7062
    @leeoflincoln7062 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Well done mate. This reflects my own view of our existence. I do not worry about death. It will come, I cannot prevent this. I simply rejoice in my existence. I am so privileged to be existent at this time.

    • @speedo1105
      @speedo1105 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      true, bottom line is you have little or no control over death, you will die and billions of plants and animals have gone the same route.

    • @lstruggy
      @lstruggy 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Everyday I wake up I’m so thankful that I’m alive 🤲🏽

    • @evieswegsda1089
      @evieswegsda1089 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Same with Me, I've always been grateful for everyday that I'm still here, and the days in the future that I'll still be here

    • @user-te8ww7nt6s
      @user-te8ww7nt6s หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's called a cop out. It's like saying my car ran out of gas so I must walk for the rest of time.
      PUT MORE GAS IN THE TANK.
      GET A NEW CAR.
      It's your responsibility.

  • @vegvegv
    @vegvegv 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +79

    I get the points surrounding not wanting to live forever, but I think that intrinsic human desire to keep living and wanting to live forever is probably the one I side with more.

    • @jayrathod2995
      @jayrathod2995 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      That'd be monotonous, unless you have something really interesting you put up to learn throughout, then you master it and get bored, cycle repeats till you eventually grow bored of learning anything at all as it's always the same pattern

    • @vegvegv
      @vegvegv 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@jayrathod2995 I mean that may be true for you, but I don't think there's enough time to do all that I really want to do in a normal lifetime. Living forever or at least many times more than we can now is a necessity.

    • @johnathanmartin1504
      @johnathanmartin1504 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@jayrathod2995 Unless you are speaking from personal experience, you have no way of knowing if anyone else would get bored. I myself love learning and don't see myself ever growing tired of it. If there is magically some limit to what can be learned (a concept I find ridiculous. New discoveries lead to new fields of study and you can never know everything.), then you can start to teach. When there is nothing left to teach (another concept I find ridiculous) you can tend to the universe like a garden.

    • @jayrathod2995
      @jayrathod2995 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@johnathanmartin1504 it is what infinity makes boredom, when you finish doing everything which might take let's say you live 100,000 years being practical you'll have finished doing everything you find joy in

    • @johnathanmartin1504
      @johnathanmartin1504 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jayrathod2995 Then it's time to bring joy to others.

  • @lunarminx
    @lunarminx 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    I have been living chronic pain that is disabling, that's not living to me as the pain sucks most joy away. I could not imagine living forever in pain. Its been this way since 2008 and I am so done, that I would love not to wake up tomorrow. Please don't take this as a suicide threat, its not, ive been under care since 2014 for it. I cant say when was the last time I was truly happy. Long past the nickname of sunshine!

    • @VoceolhouafotoOlhadenovo.
      @VoceolhouafotoOlhadenovo. 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ask the doctor to fix your pain, i'm talking about Dr. Neil de Grasse Marsh.

    • @VoceolhouafotoOlhadenovo.
      @VoceolhouafotoOlhadenovo. 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And when he fixes your pain, you can also try asking him what is the meaning of life.

    • @markdowning6773
      @markdowning6773 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      V​@@VoceolhouafotoOlhadenovo. Hi a British priest asked the daily lama that same question and he replied ' THE PURPOSE OF LIFE IS TO BE HAPPY ' . The priest went away and thought this seemed a very selfish thing for a holy man to say but upon reflection of the answer he concluded that he was right, because when you're happy you are at your best , your most giving and your most loving.

    • @evieswegsda1089
      @evieswegsda1089 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That Would Prove That Probably Nobody Would Want to Live Forever

  • @SirCheeto47
    @SirCheeto47 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Is it weird that I hear Neil’s voice speaking in my head when I read his books?
    Also, love the editing on this video, it made the reading excerpt even more interactive.

  • @timc333
    @timc333 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    When we are young we think that we can live forever or we want to live forever , so very much that we can do . As we got older and lose loved ones and friends we realize the total horror it would be to have to live on forever never having even one loved one or friend who will understand and relate , I find life lonely enough already as it is , I would not want to live forever , truth being said I wish nature would hurry up , I'm tired , all alone , and lost too many that I loved already , a life time of loosing is not good . Yes for as much as we suffer there is such a beauty to life and the wonderful adventure it brings so this is why every possible day is so important and why survival is paramount . There is a reason for every life even if that life seems a waste , there was a reason for it we may never know , there is a reason why babies that are supposed to die , somehow lived on yet didn't appear to do a thing , silently working every day to help keep everything evened out . The saddest part is the life forgotten . I remember and think about every dog I got to share my life with , every day , I can remember every person who came and went , I lived 55 years and am already exhausted I could not conceive the horror of eternity .

    • @evieswegsda1089
      @evieswegsda1089 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You have a point there

    • @timc333
      @timc333 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@evieswegsda1089 That's not something that I hear very often , my hair covers it pretty good most of the time .

    • @evieswegsda1089
      @evieswegsda1089 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@timc333 Technically I was meaning that you have a good point about younger people wishing they could live forever, but that wish fades as we get older, and also what you explained about the life cycle there, and that you know technically why everyone dies, cause god and nature made us mortally equal to make it fair on us

    • @user-te8ww7nt6s
      @user-te8ww7nt6s หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      How shall I send you the white feather. Better be express post, you might not last long enough for regular post.

  • @mholm4962
    @mholm4962 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Thats deeeeep. Makes you re-think and care about things that we already have.... i would't want to live forever. To see everything end, all the sadness. I rather have a happy short life filled with love.

    • @AlpaOmega-nb5jm
      @AlpaOmega-nb5jm 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Come on bud when you die you don't even know that you were alive no one wants to die it's are sinful nature why we die

    • @mholm4962
      @mholm4962 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      ​@@AlpaOmega-nb5jm nothing last forever.. Taste of food, love, life, friends, achivements, accomplishments, explorations, feelings and everything els will slowly fade away beacuse you have experienced it allready. You will compare one thing with another. When you have achived everything you can achive it will only be a downhill from that moment... Make your life worth living while you are alive beacuse nothing lasts forever. You will even eventually get bored of ailens and god himself, what will you do then? what if earth itself will be uninhabitable, do you want float around in the universe forever freezing? eventually even universe itself will extinguish.

    • @Yuri-nc9vl
      @Yuri-nc9vl 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@mholm4962and life is missery for most of us anyway....

  • @wonderingraven
    @wonderingraven 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    When I was young I always wanted to live forever to travel the stars and learn more.

    • @donkey3187
      @donkey3187 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      When I was young, I believed ion Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

    • @danielschaeffer1294
      @danielschaeffer1294 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      As Dorothy said, there’s no place like home.

    • @evieswegsda1089
      @evieswegsda1089 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I agree, when I was younger I was wishing to live forever, but my mom explained about what life would be like if I lived forever, and that eventually I would probably become lonely, then eventually I became unsure about whether I wanted to live forever or not

  • @TOTUTIII13
    @TOTUTIII13 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    I lost my uncle this week
    Nothing makes me feel better than this video
    Thank you 🙏

    • @k8tina
      @k8tina 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Sorry for the loss of your beloved uncle 💔

  • @gt-gu7rb
    @gt-gu7rb 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    People really don't think this though. Live forever? Ok then by extension you need all of your loved ones to live forever, and all of thier friends and loved ones. If one person lives forever, then we would all have to live forever. The universe has existed for 13 billion plus years without me. I think it will be just fine when Im gone. A timeless existence is meaningless.

    • @gabrielford3473
      @gabrielford3473 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Why do I need all of my loved ones to continue on? I mean, if the option existed for me, I imagine/hope it would for all. But I don't depend upon those I love for a good life. In fact, the majority of my life has been spent away from those I love ( and continues to) and I am very happy with it all. You meet new people along the way, if you choose to.

    • @salam14111
      @salam14111 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      some1 can say life make no sens because we have to die . its meaningless nihilistic . why even try ? so short .

    • @anonymous-zn2iv
      @anonymous-zn2iv 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Then why are we trying to achieve immortality. I think as long as there is new knowledge and new experiences to be had life is worth living.

  • @kamranchaudhry5747
    @kamranchaudhry5747 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Wish I had heard this before speaking at the memorial of my cousin who died on Feb 6, 2024, due to TB, Heart enlargement, thalassemia and post delivery. I miss her but didnt want her to live with aal this burden and pain. Thanks for the support Neil.

  • @86FxBdyCpe
    @86FxBdyCpe 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The passage about our canine loved ones brought tears to my eyes. 😢

    • @k8tina
      @k8tina 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My furrychildren are a part of my life and family. They are full of such pure love for us. 🐶🐾

  • @Brennbare
    @Brennbare 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +74

    I hate the fact that I have to die. I want to know what is happening in a hundred years or a thousand years.
    I want to be there when we go extinct. Or when we migrate to another planet. I love gaming. I want to know what gaming is like in 200 years.

    • @NolocoLawrence
      @NolocoLawrence 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      I want to read, game, watch things from the past and the future. It's frustrating to imagine a day I don't wake up. Just knowing that I won't be conscious that day. Unable to get my bearings and think of the day ahead. That all my thoughts cease to excist sucks. At the same time. I feel we should die. In regards to the limits of our planet. I do feel that in order to go on in our future. We're going to need to become more robot and just be more the mind of what was once human.

    • @pnut3844able
      @pnut3844able 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      You want to know what it's like to game 200 years from now? Dude you're doing right now, this is a simulation.

    • @J-js4ei
      @J-js4ei 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      We are the game.

    • @timc333
      @timc333 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Trust me , you really don't want to know , You will be plenty happy when you realize that you got to miss that part , the whole extinction thing is very highly overrated and sadly doesn't happen in one day . Starvation is not fun either , ever have to go hungry , well I was homeless at one point and only survived by stealing day old bread from the back of a grocery store , starvation and going hungry actually really painful . As for migrating to other planets , we still can't make it to even our closest neighbors , and by the time we perfect that technology we will have a bigger problem of all the space junk and satellites already in our orbit and how much more there will be , we will be a planet locked species because of our own trash . Sorry but are you really still sure you want to be eternal , cause it conceivably could happen you know , I simply genetic accident could change things forever >

    • @abstract5249
      @abstract5249 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@timc333 If we live forever, then gradual processes might feel quicker to us. An extinction event due to climate change might look like a great (and horrifying) cataclysm, much as volcanic eruptions and tsunamis appear to us now.

  • @finaldrive6224
    @finaldrive6224 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    What a lovely passage-and solemn reminder.

  • @massmanpro
    @massmanpro 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Living forever would suck. I would rather die under circumstances that I'm most comfortable with. I will be at peace with knowing my time has come. People forget that death is just as natural as life.

    • @Palidine4M0O
      @Palidine4M0O 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Living forever is a nightmare idealistic thought, trying to live longer is an attempt to reach an ideal. One of the two is the perfect being the enemy of the good, the other is incrementally reasonable.

    • @brizzle3903
      @brizzle3903 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@Palidine4M0Oexactly being immortal in the physical plane would be a true nightmare

    • @steve00alt70
      @steve00alt70 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      But when will you want to die? That will be never.

    • @evieswegsda1089
      @evieswegsda1089 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I would want to live at least until i'm ready to go, probably not live forever

  • @GinaCarmichael-nd2pt
    @GinaCarmichael-nd2pt 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    I find Neil deGrasse Tyson to be so unique exquisite to the senses of every discipline. Profound. I love you. The Greatest of all times.

  • @MelvinWar
    @MelvinWar 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Possibly one of the best and most insightful books I have read in my life.

  • @sexton824
    @sexton824 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I view death as the necessary process to avoid eternal suffering. Imagine being buried alive, or trapped in an underground cave or a collapsed building. Death is the only escape. We are limited in the amount of time we can suffer which I think is a wonderful thing.

    • @lemmahmdodana5301
      @lemmahmdodana5301 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      We don't have t suffer all our life.... scientists won't know how to escape the suffering while you are alive.

  • @MrGriff305
    @MrGriff305 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Answer to the question.. Yes.. That'd give me a blissful outlook

  • @bigted79
    @bigted79 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    How have I only just come across this podcast in the last week. Absolutely fantastic!!!!

  • @johnmeissner8715
    @johnmeissner8715 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Living forever does not imply that one can do anything one wants. Although elegant, the words you read bypasses the work one must maintain to continue living. 😯

    • @gabrielford3473
      @gabrielford3473 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      But it does offer the opportunity to do many things one may want, and that would be a priceless option.

    • @emreeren13
      @emreeren13 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Well we would need an UBI (universal basic income) urgently/ideally in such times, otherwise it would be insane. Who want's to work forever? Only people who love their job's and there aren't many.

    • @abstract5249
      @abstract5249 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      That's some real nightmare fuel. Imagine learning you've gained immortality, only to be told to get back to work. At first you think, "it's fine. I have time! I'll eventually make enough money to leave my job and chase my dreams."
      But as time goes on, you realize the very system of late stage capitalism, itself, has changed. Now it takes into account human's immortality, effectively forcing us to wage away forever...

    • @emreeren13
      @emreeren13 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@abstract5249 With an UBI this wouldn't happen. At least not forever.

    • @abstract5249
      @abstract5249 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@emreeren13 Good luck trying to implement UBI in the U.S. The majority of Americans already support it, but it's not happening anytime soon. We have a vocal minority against it while our government is incentivized to remain beholden to our corporate leaders who would rather profit off our labor.

  • @rebokfleetfoot
    @rebokfleetfoot 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    he does have a great story telling voice :)

  • @andyjoubert9410
    @andyjoubert9410 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Very Deep. I think I appreciate this as much as you do, and that voice lends so much more substance to it !

  • @ericaslavi5779
    @ericaslavi5779 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Thank you so much for your wisdom and leadership 🙏

  • @Cloudryder
    @Cloudryder 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    That was so beautiful. Thank you, Sir.

  • @TheBeanMan-ks3gi
    @TheBeanMan-ks3gi 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    6:13 understatement of the year

  • @inthehouse1960
    @inthehouse1960 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I loved this. thank you. it made me feel peaceful.

  • @khansher88
    @khansher88 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That was so awesome. Amazing narration.

  • @bryanbradley6871
    @bryanbradley6871 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    where there is no death there is no life, where there is no life there is no death.
    -Bryan Bradley

  • @An_Economist_Plays
    @An_Economist_Plays 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Not alone, no. When there are no shortages of resources or even time itself, then it is love that becomes the currency of immortality.

  • @vrycanz
    @vrycanz 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Surely gonna add this to favorites video and play it every morning and afternoon on my way to work and back to home afterwork.

  • @derekschneider8922
    @derekschneider8922 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Our modern hygiene, like clean teeth to understanding diet, and sleep, extends our lifetime expectancy compared to those before us. It’s a great point, as a new generation, we don’t see it as we benefited more than previous generations. I like the perspective of dog years, and how we measure our time, and see how much longer we live both naturally, and with modern medicine. Bravo, more please!

  • @carlstawicki1915
    @carlstawicki1915 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I would want to live forever with these conditions:
    1. I have perfect health and don't physically age.
    2. I'm set up financially.
    3. I still have the option to take my own life when I'm ready. There's no point in living after the sun expires. 😉

    • @bobblowhard8823
      @bobblowhard8823 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      You would get bored and tired of living long before the sun expires.

    • @evieswegsda1089
      @evieswegsda1089 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That is good points you both have there

  • @YoungGandalf2325
    @YoungGandalf2325 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    If you think that living forever would be bad, then is living a shorter life better? There is a happy medium somewhere. It's up to each individual to find out what that is for themselves and make the most of that time.
    Would you rather have flowers that live forever, or flowers that die 5 seconds after they're picked? Probably something in-between.

    • @EdwardHowton
      @EdwardHowton 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Big "Oh, you don't like a month of feasting? So you prefer starving to death?" energy in your non sequitur there, buddy.
      Edit: False dichotomy. That's what I meant. I got confused by how _completely out of nowhere_ the false dichotomy came from and I got non sequitur stuck in my head.
      Because it's both.

    • @Vynzent
      @Vynzent 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah this line of reasoning was a mess. Why would anyone not want flowers that last forever? Dafuq? That's why fake ones were invented. That's got nothing to do with this.

    • @PuggetronicsPioneer
      @PuggetronicsPioneer 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "Would you rather have flowers that live forever, or flowers that die 5 seconds after they're picked? Probably something in-between."
      The absurdity of saying something in-between five seconds and forever lol. I do agree with your point about individuals finding a happy medium though. I think if given the choice I'd like to live until I was well and truly ready for the big sleep.

    • @emreeren13
      @emreeren13 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yea imagine in a hypothetic utopic future, where you have roses in a vase on the table and you realize one day that they died.
      And you think something like:
      "Ohh... another 500 years passed. I didn't even realize. Time goes faster the older you get, huh oldtimer? I exactly remember how I picked them up back in 34'625 as if it was yesterday."

    • @evieswegsda1089
      @evieswegsda1089 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It would be less of a stress if immortality existed or if the average lifespan was longer, but if nobody died then the world would become overcrowded and there eventually wouldn't be enough food for everyone, and also it would probably be a bit boring if everyone died at the same age, or if everyone was the same

  • @omrik3252
    @omrik3252 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you Neil for this great video ❤ always great to watch your videos! Meaningful and informative

  • @Egonzales85
    @Egonzales85 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I read your book when it came out. It’s amazing.

  • @Maderyne
    @Maderyne 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    A 19-year-old looks ahead to what his life will offer him. That same person at his 70th birthday party wonders where all the years went. The movie, Meet Joe Black, illustrates it well when Anthony Hopkins utters that very thought. I would choose a longer lifespan, though not forever. Even immortality would get tiresome I would think.

    • @atlanciaza
      @atlanciaza 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Why would you assume immortality would get tiresome, when there is a near infinite universe to explore?
      Even on a smaller scale there is a near infinite amount of experiences to be had on just this tiny mote of dust suspended in a sun beam.

    • @GK-ku3zv
      @GK-ku3zv 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@atlanciaza Memories is part of the journey. Why live forever when you will forget way more than you will ever remember. Everything will have to be recorded along the way. I would like to live for a very long time and take a hundred years time out, come back after a long rest period if given a choice.

    • @Yuri-nc9vl
      @Yuri-nc9vl 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      a short life full of joy without pain worth more than immortality

  • @sonnyc.9259
    @sonnyc.9259 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    simply beautiful

  • @FelipeSilva-yo4el
    @FelipeSilva-yo4el หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love the StarTalks with Niel deGrasse Tyson, I learn sth treasured and helps me to learn English too.

  • @ehiggins7476
    @ehiggins7476 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    We need more of these videos!

  • @yuukimoon906
    @yuukimoon906 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    My new favorite quote from Neil is: "Dogs aren't flowers."

  • @salkhan7066
    @salkhan7066 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Death is similar to returning to a state of non-existence. Just as we have no memory or awareness of the time before we were born, there will be no consciousness or experience to miss or remember anything. Death is the end of conscious existence, where our consciousness ceases to exist.

    • @redcat9436
      @redcat9436 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You are very wrong about that.

    • @Yuri-nc9vl
      @Yuri-nc9vl 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@redcat9436how he's wrong?

    • @solomonsiko9845
      @solomonsiko9845 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I hear you, but are you saying all things I've experienced will just fades away I believe there must be something else cause when u are not born you never experienced anything compared to when you once lived .

    • @salkhan7066
      @salkhan7066 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@solomonsiko9845 On a very small scale, I liken non-existence to the state of being under general anesthesia-without consciousness or feeling. It appears that death could resemble this state, but instead of a finite duration, it extends indefinitely.

    • @mosu77844
      @mosu77844 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Allan Watts

  • @MrKennethjj
    @MrKennethjj 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    definitely am compelled to joy because my dogs have a 'ready to go get whatever' kind of encouraging energy.

  • @UnatickOne
    @UnatickOne 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    didn’t know you wrote a book. I am going to purchase it asap !

  • @FriedeSeiMitDir
    @FriedeSeiMitDir 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Beautifully written and read, Neill. I think I just noticed a tiny mistake: At 4:30 you say about the 7:1 dog/human ratio: "A day onto a dog is a week onto humans". Shouldn't it be the other way round? A day onto human is a week onto a dog? 🤔

    • @M3galodon
      @M3galodon 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Wait a second... it works both ways.

    • @aeristone5941
      @aeristone5941 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Agreed @FriedeSeiMitDir it's definitely a mistake. Although, I think it was just worded/written very poorly. He likely meant it would be the same feeling (for a dog) of a week passing (as WE know/experience it), and not actually that we are living a week of time for a dog's day of time. If we think about it this way, then we can see how it also makes sense "both ways" like @M3galodon says, which is extra evidence of it simply being poorly written. Although it is a little amusing (imo) to imagine a world where Neil believes humans age 168 hours every time a dog ages 24 hours 😂😂😂.

  • @jjcooney9758
    @jjcooney9758 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I would, I don’t mind work, I find it rewarding, the idea of traversing deep space is so appealing. To be that generation, there is no bigger reward. To infinity…

    • @Vynzent
      @Vynzent 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You've been watching too many movies.

  • @jayare6804
    @jayare6804 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very moving and thought provoking

  • @jeffsiegwart
    @jeffsiegwart 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very impressive poetry! Thank you.

  • @weredragon1447
    @weredragon1447 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    First, just because we wouldn't age doesn't mean we wouldn't die. Age and disease aren't the only things humans die from.
    Second, maybe this would motivate us to live in the moment and enjoying life right now, instead of racing around always thinking about our limited future and everything we need to "get done" before it's too late.
    Third, my daughter gave me silk flowers for mother's Day a few years ago. I value them to this day. It's not the object that I love it's the person who gave them to me. Also, every year I work hard in my garden to grow my own flowers. I get so much enjoyment seeing them grow and blume. But I don't value them less than the silk ones because they don't last as long.
    Like most things in life it all depends on your perspective. 😊

  • @iTuber012
    @iTuber012 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Yes up until the universe dies... I wouldn't want to just be floating in nothingness for eternity

  • @Jsjsjsxjjdw
    @Jsjsjsxjjdw 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very profound. Love the analogy of the Forever flowers!

  • @nikhatriazrasool
    @nikhatriazrasool 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I feel "Living forever" is not the actual desire but Living forever as a youthful joyful being is a real "Want" 😊

  • @Bernard_Ralph_The_Realtor
    @Bernard_Ralph_The_Realtor 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Yes I wanna live forever

  • @IamKnucks
    @IamKnucks 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    I've never accepted the rationale that we only do things today because we might die tomorrow. When I'm painting an illustration I do it because I enjoy it. Not because I'm racing death. When I play a video game it's because I'm in the mood to play. When I take my daughter out for ice cream it's because I love seeing her happy, not because I'm trying to cram as many memories in before I'm gone.

    • @gabrielford3473
      @gabrielford3473 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Exactly

    • @tiredofthebs9
      @tiredofthebs9 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Everything we do is based on the finite time we have left.

    • @shiptj01
      @shiptj01 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Amen.

  • @goneviral8814
    @goneviral8814 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Amazing words!! Gotta read it!!!

  • @davidwood2387
    @davidwood2387 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A very good reading.

  • @ogungou9
    @ogungou9 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Personally 'forever' I don't know I don't think so, but 1000 little years, absolutely, yes.

    • @MajorCanada
      @MajorCanada 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah. 2000 or 3000 years is fine. Maybe we change our minds. Plenty of time. Hopefully we end poverty, aging, then disease, then we see what's next.

    • @ogungou9
      @ogungou9 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@MajorCanada: Exactly!

    • @evieswegsda1089
      @evieswegsda1089 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      But most people would probably have enough of life way before 200

  • @davidlee8464
    @davidlee8464 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I’ve already died twice (one from a motorcycle accident, one from a serious illness) - my experience tells me there’s nothing to avoid and nothing to fear. I know others will say there’s nothing after death, or that any such phenomenon is just the random firing of neurons. I’m not debating that - just relaying my personal experience.

    • @marksnow7569
      @marksnow7569 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You are a spectacularly lucky person!

  • @BenjySparky
    @BenjySparky 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Neil, you rock! More of this, please. Peace

  • @charlesbrown1365
    @charlesbrown1365 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I often say I wouldn’t want to live forever . Nothing preventing terrible times for me.

  • @Aluran
    @Aluran 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Not forever just a lot longer like dude how do I ocean creatures live so long

  • @kronosaurelius
    @kronosaurelius 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Yes

  • @TheNaiveMonk
    @TheNaiveMonk 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for sharing ❤

  • @ooshDAloosh
    @ooshDAloosh 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    chills down my body this whole video>

  • @JesusChristDenton_7
    @JesusChristDenton_7 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    "And someday when the descendants of humanity have spread from star to star, they won't tell the children about the history of Ancient Earth until they're old enough to bear it; and when they learn they'll weep to hear that such a thing as Death had ever once existed!"
    -A wise Man

  • @seanbumstead1250
    @seanbumstead1250 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    I would definitely want to live forever

    • @evieswegsda1089
      @evieswegsda1089 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      But then you would never see passed loved ones again

  • @perks6292
    @perks6292 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Nicely read, Doc

  • @SigmaMaleCountMartelus
    @SigmaMaleCountMartelus 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I just love listening to you. You are inspiring. I will buy your book

  • @_olli_9485
    @_olli_9485 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    i would...

  • @Leonardo-jj5co
    @Leonardo-jj5co 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I would not want to live forever, I would have no motivation to get out of bed since I have all the time to do whatever and when I'd be done with everything I'd still have forever to do nothing.

    • @MajorCanada
      @MajorCanada 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Short sighted. How about just being able to live healthy as a 30 year old for 100 years? What if you stretch that to 150 years? How about 200 and you decide how you die, if you want to, and where?
      Think big picture.
      No one is living forever with a decaying 140 year old body. People are never living forever anyway.
      Car crashes. Airplane accidents. Spaceship depressurization. All of this is possible and will eventually result in death.

    • @johnathanmartin1504
      @johnathanmartin1504 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      To someone like me that is an alien mindset. I never have enough time to do what I want to do. I definitely want to live forever.

    • @evieswegsda1089
      @evieswegsda1089 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There's some advantages of both mortal life and immortality

  • @HoldOntoYourButts
    @HoldOntoYourButts 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What a nice voice. I can listen to more readings from you Mr. Neil

  • @lathenhertel8564
    @lathenhertel8564 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I wouldn't mind living a couple hundred years just to see the advancements humanity makes. But I don't believe anything is meant to last forever. I would rather feel privileged to get to experience existence for a short time than experience the years slowly dragging by with no true purpose.

  • @chocopuddingcup83
    @chocopuddingcup83 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I'd want to live forever, with the caveat that I could decide when I died and when I've had enough.

    • @evieswegsda1089
      @evieswegsda1089 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I feel like I probably wouldn't want to live forever, but I would want to be able to live until i'm ready to go

  • @PrometheanVision
    @PrometheanVision 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The funny part about this conversation everyone thinks they want to die until one day CRISPR catches up and you can look and feel like you're 24 indefinitely then everyone will change their opinions.

  • @heroknaderi
    @heroknaderi 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very good details.

  • @matjazwalland903
    @matjazwalland903 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Everything you said is true, fear pushes us forward and limits us at the same time! We get tunnel vision and can't see anything around us, we become selfish and full of ourselves.

  • @rebokfleetfoot
    @rebokfleetfoot 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    if you consider the definition of life, living forever is not life, so it's kind of a silly question

  • @willg3220
    @willg3220 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    NDT for president! Please..

  • @user-jx8go6hi8i
    @user-jx8go6hi8i 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Yay, another good book to read and reflect on!😊

  • @AvonMaverick
    @AvonMaverick 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That was beautiful. Thank you Neil.

  • @targetedplantsguy9481
    @targetedplantsguy9481 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I definitely want to live forever or until I choose not to. I want to live long enough to see us inhabit other worlds and speciate.

  • @KarlRoyale
    @KarlRoyale 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I have to reject this argument completely, not everyone procrastinates indefinitely, knowing there will be a tomorrow does not have to mean I waste today.

  • @JesusRodriguez-fo2br
    @JesusRodriguez-fo2br 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The idea of dying is the very reason to live. Life and living would be pointless if we lived forever. I'm grateful for the years I have, at 29, I hope to grow old and age well.

    • @marzelingram4390
      @marzelingram4390 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We all do, but there is no guarantee. There is only one way to live forever, and that's through Jesus our Lord, Savior, and Creator. It's our choice.

  • @Carrix_
    @Carrix_ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Time is not what humans lack, rather the will to still live even after knowing death is closer every second. Don't go saying you'll do many great things only if you had more time. If unable to do anything meaningful with your life in a average lifespan of 75 years, you'll achieve nothing in an eternal lifespan. And if you did achieve wonderful things in your life, then die in peace knowing that fact.

  • @ChrisStephen-sl1kn
    @ChrisStephen-sl1kn 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    Dear American I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to express my deep disappointment and frustration regarding the delay in receiving my tax refund. As a law-abiding citizen, I fulfilled all my tax obligations promptly and expected a timely refund.

    • @user-mw4nm2di7p
      @user-mw4nm2di7p 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Same here It has been months since I submitted my tax return, and have yet to receive any communication or updates regarding the status of my refund. This delay has caused significant inconvenience and financial strain, as I had planned to use the refund for essential expenses.

    • @BlitoEmactao
      @BlitoEmactao 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How do you do that? I'm interested

    • @Macdonald12
      @Macdonald12 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      HOW !! I know it's possible, I would appreciate if you show me how to go about

    • @Walter-dq2uf
      @Walter-dq2uf 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's truly heart- warming reading a lot of testimonials on Everett Gary. Her personality, ethics, principles and prowess as a Financial Adviser has gained her fame and recognition around the globe.

    • @Pelkey71
      @Pelkey71 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's high time I get connect with Everett Gary Oliver. I have heard a lot of testimonies about her and also see few of her interviews on the internet and CNBC

  • @yamilletrivas8041
    @yamilletrivas8041 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I would want Neil to read to me all day every day. This was fantastic and now I miss my Maggie May and I’m looking at my two dogs with even more loving eyes. 😢

  • @samsomers2716
    @samsomers2716 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Well that certainly left me in a cheery mood. ..

  • @user-et2zi1lv5v
    @user-et2zi1lv5v 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This man's voice reminds me of a thought about a meeting excersice for natural habitat conservationist where we would practice communications skills mimicking other species deciding direction.