The Fact of Death

Like our kind generally, I enjoy taking risks. To even the greatest risk I can reply, yes, well, true, I might die doing this--but I'm going to pass in the blink of an eye, anyway: not much difference between half a blink and a blink, so...Geronimo!!!An eternal life would make our lives boring and dull. Why take any chances when what you are chancing is forever? Who would explore? Who would try anything new? Who would jump 21 school buses with a Harley? Who would choose death before dishonor?With forever on the line, life would become as safe as...tombs.We would devolve into wee frightened critters, holed up in our safe houses lest golf-ball sized hail or a germ cut our eternity short.I'd rather die.

Actually, no: I was addressing what I took to be the OP's premise of eternal life as we know it in this here and now, and I think the primary downside to that would be the rejection of even trivial risk to life and limb. Life would be tedious.I understand that you believe you know what is to come. I accept the fact of your belief but see no grounds to accept your beliefs as truth. I don't generally try to psychologize others' beliefs, but in this case I might make an exception and suggest that a peekaboo with death has chased you into a church. I might further suggest that the world suffers a great deal from being full of people with eyes on pie in the sky and backs turned to life here and now.But I won't I don't assume that I cease to exist at biological death. I'm truly agnostic about the issue. However, I'm fully convinced that I'm alive right here and now, and that is what I have willingly risked. The faithful have often courted death; the faithless may fear it or defy it; death makes adventurers of us all. Not sure what you mean here--I've had my share of peeks and then some, and I've no shortage of bottles in my pack. And don't assume you've seen my philosophy of life and death in a forum post.