is it wise to seek to live forever? stephen cave, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it is a great pleasure. you believe our human awareness of our own mortality is absolutely central to the human story. why? well, all creatures strive to live on, to keep going. they would not be around as if they did not. the mountain did not care about surviving would not pass on genes. we come for from a long line of creatures that determined to keep going but we have these big brands that is part of our survival mechanism allow us to see the future, to generalise and we are conscious of ourselves as individuals and that means we are conscious of our own death and out of all the billions of creatures on earth, very few creatures have to live with that terrible awareness that all of their efforts will come to nothing safe we look back to human history, we see humanity struggling to make sense of this. some of the earliest archaeological evidence we find of human development is su
are saying is alive in this world. what you are saying is we re - alive in this world. what you are saying is we re trying - alive in this world. what you are saying is we re trying to | are saying is we re trying to make of our own mortality but we are also wrestling against it, trying somehow or other to find the recipe to avoid it, to avert this ultimate finish? yes, there are lots of ways in which we can come to terms with mortality. we can tell ourselves that this life is just the beginning, that the real life is in another realm somewhere else, but the basic plan is to stay alive today for as long as we can. plan is to stay alive today for as long as we can. religion is of course as long as we can. religion is of course have as long as we can. religion is of course have their - as long as we can. religion is of course have their own - as long as we can. religion is. of course have their own belief systems and whether it be western or eastern religions, they have different