In the end, I don’t think we’re meant to live forever. I think we’re meant to live fully, to notice, to bear witness, and to pass something honest forward. Length matters far less than whether we used our time to tell the truth as we understood it, and to love without turning away.

However

A very long life, at its best, turns a person into a bridge—between generations, between forgotten knowledge and future understanding. That kind of longevity has purpose.