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Humans have always tried to live forever. Maybe you can, but not in the way you imagine.
The ancient Egyptians believed that the afterlife persisted only as long as living people remembered the name, and therefore built edifices so permanent that they still stand today, 4000 years later. The authors of religious texts are largely unnamed, and yet their stories, lessons, laws, and ethics have determined the world view of tens of billions of humans, and will continue to do so. You must drop some stones, because the alternative is a nihilistic descent, remembering that your life is a flicker between the 13,770,000,000 years of nothingness that came before you and the far longer expanse after you die, most of which is a featureless soup of maximum-entropy minimum-energy photons.
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