We have gotten to the point where we can all live forever. Yet I know that not everyone has that desire.
We have discussed the lifespan of our dog, Rosie, pictured in the thumbnail, and we will miss her when she is gone, but she now lives forever, at least in a digital form.
This is a new thing. Many years ago people would live and die and leave nothing behind, but through our access to the internet, we all are leaving traces (or more) of ourselves.
Bits and pieces of me are now on BigThink, MySpace, Facebook, Ezine, Youtube, Yahoo, Google and a plethora of other sites. Videos I have posted are now living on in other domains. How they got there, I don't know.
But I know that when I am gone, in another 40 or 60 years, I will still live in my videos for my great grandchildren to look at at laugh. (or cry)
We have progressed to the point that nearly everyone can live forever.
June 17, 2009 | In Life & Death
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jagannath rao adukuri on June 25, 2009, 1:49 AM
I really do not know if all those bits and pieces of ourselves in the cyberworld will last beyond say 20 years . Our virtual entity will also vanish after some time when we are no longer there and we are not continuously asserting our existence.We cannot call ourselves immortal in any case.
But perhaps ,in yet another way, we can look at ourselves as immortal .This is because once we are born we become an idea in time and even after death we continue to exist as an idea. Thus we may not exist in space but continue to exist in Time for all time to come. This way we become immortal
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