If you could live however long you wanted to in good mental & physical health, how long would be enough?

I don't know, perhaps a couple of thousand years. I suspect it might be interesting. Furthermore, if Ray Kurzweil has anything to say about , we'll all be able to upload ourselves.

My thinking is that without knowing more, we could be just talking out of our asses. I think about it this way, in the Biblical narrative there is a wonderful little tid-bit , about how a Roman God was "cursed" to roam the earth until Jesus returns. So if there's truth to that particular little tid-bit , some guy is 2000 years old and around - still.

I imagine after you've acquired material wealth , or learned as many languages as you want, lived in a variety of places on Earth, had every variety of sex, food, etc. Heard every kind of music, political debate, religious argument, I suspect, it gets' old.

So perhaps like the Greek titan Epimethius (Prometheus' brother), Cartaphillus might simply have found a small house in a far away land, with some sheep to tend and a grove to harvest and probably has very little to do with the rest of us.

If people get off-world, then that's a different matter, seeing the circumstances and helping the race along in our expansion throughout the solar system and perhaps to off-world colonies might be very exciting to see.

Checking back in on some fledgling colony say 300, 900 or 2000 years after it was founded could have interesting consequences.

I don't want to put a number on it. If I did have that blessing to live long, I feel as though eventually there would be a point in time in my aging, at an age I do not know or will not make certain, that I will feel I've lived enough and it's time to go to GOD. It's always been that time but life must take place and we all fulfill our destiny, life cut short or not. So I would at a time feel that feeling that I don't want to live anymore because I am satisfied with my existence, and I will simply just feel that way and eventually I will die because I felt I have lived my life, I would have been very old already, at peace, and naturally would have died because of the feeling I invoked. You can compare what I said about my feeling and dying to a person who loses the will to live. They die. However in my case I would not have lost my will to live, I would have been satisfied and just want to go. Big difference.

I like the sound of 300 years. It would be long enough to weather some significant changes...and it would be long enough(SHOULD be long enough) to develop a calm, singular perspective a la meditations and enlightenment. Also, I think some people just go through their life at different speeds. For example, I am still just looking around amazed at things. It will probably take me another hundred years to make up my mind on how I feel about that...while others have their entire existence mapped out like a blueprint at an early age.

How about 333 years; a number with some power! .....666? :]

I would love to live as long as the universe exists, but not as a human being.

I'd like to exist as a non-physical being who could explore the cosmos and see everything; not restricted by the laws of physics and the ability to travel faster than light.

As for my human life, I really don't care. Death doesn't scare me.

I just want to live 50 more years or so and see what happens.

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Speaking from realm of ego, illusion the answer of age 87 comes to mind. Why? Don't know. Seasoned age of 87 just sounds right.

Speaking from the heart the answer that comes up is..."It's enough when it's enough." Age 7, 27, 77, 107 . . . when you're done, you're done.

Spiritually speaking, in reality there is no enough or not enough. All is eternal, abundant, no lack, no death (dirt nap)....merely transformation of all that already is.

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Well I'd like to live and see humanity from now to the end, but thats simply too much for one man to take in. I'll let nature decide

I think the question of wanting to live is inescapably tied to the condition of one's mind and body. If one were constantly falling apart and becoming increasingly delibitated, one often reaches the point where one is too tired of living. If it were possible to maintain good health indefinitely, one would perhaps wish to live forever.

I would opt to liveforever, IF my batteries could be recharged from time to time.

100-200 years.

100 years at the least

200 years at the most

I'd like to live as long as sex was still enjoyable.

Honestly, I've seen people who once said they did not want to be kept alive on machines suddenly change their minds when confronted with death.

45 years, i think after 45 youd have plenty of time to seek out life to have kids and a family and to enjoy life i think after 45 it just kind of drains on, im not saying 45 yr olds dont have something to live for just that personally i dont like the concept of being older than that