"You're inches away from death every time you go on a misssion. How much older can you be at your age...."
"Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant cocnditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?"
"I do," Dunbar told him.
"Why?" clevinger asked.
"What else is there?"
pg. 39
The top quote on this page was part of a paragraph that kind of blew my mind. As in, having just finished Inception kind of mind-blowing. Dunbar makes an excellent point- we are oldest when we are nearest danger. What if we measured life in terms of how close we were to dying. If I were to know I was going to die in the next couple hours, I would be one of the oldest people on earth. However, being close to death doesn't magically give you wisdom, or experience, or anything else that comes with old age, so it's really not the same.
The later quote from this page reminded me immensely of one of my favorite book quotes ever, from "A Princess Bride". It says "life isn't fair; it's just fairer than death, that's all." It's so true. Life may not be awesome. There may be bad things. But the bad things make the good all the better, and really, there's not much else to do, except die. Since the idea of death freaks most of us out quite a bit, I think it's safe to say that continuing living is the best choice.
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