forever
So the secret to long life and happiness is avoid loved ones...they are just so damn inconsiderate when they die, make strong freindships with plants...so you will always have part of your plant food dead freinds around, but seriously. We contemplate eternity in the times when we doubt an afterlife because we are afraid that we are just a bunch of pre-programmed chemicals with no ounce of divinity within us. If an afterlife was a certanty then we would not have such morbid terms for death and would consider the posted questions rediculous. We do not nead to turn to religion (it is not the only other answer), what realy nead to do (in my humble opinion...) is to analise the questions, it is not about would you want to live forever, what it realy asks is how afraid of death and lonliness are you? We are afraid of our sense of 'the temporary' and only when we 'feel' a sense of 'permanence' do we look at death more positively. Hell, I am not a religious man but I do not believe in death either...alas, the danger of empirical knowledge is that in imparting its truth our accounts become anecdotal and thus unscientific....so in conclusion, the answer has to be what a load of bollocks...we have no choice but to live forever, we just don't know it yet......NEXT QUESTION.