The Drawbacks of Immortality

“I told my wife that if I lived to say, 1,000, I could stay married to her for maybe 300 years, and then by the time I’m 5 or 600 I’m going to get a hot 200-year-old. And there’s also the existential problem. If you make a mistake in life, then it’s going to be with you forever, that’s it. I don’t think I want to live forever. I would take a couple hundred years, and then say goodbye.”
 — A.J. Jacobs on his quest to become the healthiest human alive.