How to Live Forever
1. Don't let yourself get hurt. Physically. Ever. Fun is good and safety is lame but getting hurt is deadly. Almost.
2. Never put yourself in a situation when your attention can't prevent getting hurt.
Example: no matter how good you are at life, if the airplane crashes, you are dead. If you're walking on terra firma you can almost definitely run away from a crashing airplane.
3. Just because it's better doesn't mean it's good for living forever. A jet gets you to San Francisco faster than a train but it's so hard to die on a non-express passenger train. You'd have to do-it-yourself.
4. Assume you will, live forever unless you fuck up. That makes not fucking-up-and-getting-hurt the higher priority it ought to be.
5. Fun is forever. Fun, is, forever. You can live forever if you have fun every day starting now. Say 100 years is the default human life-span. Every miserable day is two days off your life. Every fun day is no days off your life.
Do the math and plan accordingly.
6. Fun all day. Most of the day has to be fun or the "spell" doesn't work.
7. Medicine is a fixer. Not a saver.
If you are healthy and want to live forever, don't expect medicine to help. Smokey the Congressman says:
"Only you can prevent feeling feeble."
Translation: doctors can repair a broken leg but not a broken heart, and the broken leg won't kill you.
Translation: pills are bad. Persistence is good.
8. Death is not a thing. Literally. Death, is not a thing.
Therefore being afraid of something which is not is dumb.
You can't experience death. It's not real.
9. You can experience pain and injury and iillness which lead to death. Being afraid of that is reasonable. So don't let it happen and fix it if it does.
10. Illness is dangerous, obviously. Feed a cold and starve a fever? No. Fight or fornicate with a cold and steam away a fever.
