Health | Business leaders are planning on living forever

It’s a question that we all mull over at one time or another – if the choice was up to us, would we opt to live forever? Would we like to still be soldiering on, 100 – even 200 – years into the future? To some it sounds like a nightmare.

It was Mahatma Gandhi who so famously said “Live as if you were to die tomorrow,” and that’s relatively hard to do if you’re sure that tomorrow is simply a drop in an endless ocean. Yet for some, especially those with the means to truly enjoy an infinite life of revelry and direction, living forever isn’t just a dream – it’s a mission.

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Wellbeing | How business leaders avoid burnout

Yes, the general population is slowly getting older as science slowly breaks down the barrier between the very human affliction of mortality and medicine designed to eradicate virtually any disease and illness under the sun – let’s save the moral debate here for another time – but realistically, the human body is potentially a millennia away from perfecting this craft, meaning you and I, and everyone reading this are out of luck in that department.

But, do we even really need these creaky, perishable bags of flesh that we inhabit, anyway?