Sometimes I feel we should cure living. I would prefer to live only 70 years but fully, having built good human relationships, knowing how to learn, rather than 100 unfulfilled ones.
Thousand years later, first colonists in a different galaxy:
- Remember that dude from our childhood?
- Yeah, choosing to live a mere 70 years - so weird...
- Never mind, let's keep Terra-forming..."
[1] although very late, maybe on average it's a coming of age thing.
[2] being into computer and technology, I think we have a special relationship to fads, newness, communication and history that makes us (at least I) interested in others in weird ways. How people managed to solve problems or live in a different context, what was the same, what really changed for them as a human.