Re: Do you want to live this long?
Live till 117? I'd happily live till 999 given the choice and the accompanying regeneration of health and body. That of course is what used to happen in days of old if the old books and tomes are to be believed. The bible for example tells us that people like Noah lived over 900 years.
It's all about the Philosopher's Stone of course, that secret of life that is kept from the general populous. It allegedly restores you to the peak of your fitness (as a circa 30 yr old) and gives you super longevity.
Without this I'm afraid we are all caught in an insipid cycle of constant recycling by Nature. The most simple person can surely see how Nature operates. She makes a thing, but the thing can not hold onto form for very long (relatively speaking) so it decays and crumbles and Nature dis-assembles it back to its primary matter and builds it again into something else. That process has been going on for billions of years and all of us, we humans, are a part of that cycle.
Just because you can't "remember" it in your current form (your limited brain and memory etc) doesn't mean it hasn't happened. We have all been other living things which we have no memory of.
Do you really want to keep going around and around and around in that cycle? I'm not sure I do. I don't relish the idea of being born as a baby again and growing up in today's world to be made a slave under an increasingly controlling totalitarian government. Maybe if I can wait 500-1000 years and then be born when we have cracked space travel properly so I can go and see distant galaxies etc.