“To be or not to be”

Now I get it, why vampires, werewolves and super heroes are such a rage! Why wouldn't anyone trade this frail, mortality which includes eating (which is mostly good), crapping (need I say more?) puking (!!!) and other horrid stuffs (going to the dentist! Oh my god, the horror!) for an immortal existence excluding all this mostly for vampires and aliens like superman (or does he need to go through such stuffs as well?). Werewolves would need to use the loo like humans, but aren't they blessed with super speed so they could possibly rush through the disgusting stuff!! So what is beautiful about mortality and of course, I forgot, these creatures can avoid the most devastating part of this earthly existence, death. One can speak of boredom, I mean a point in favour of mortality could be that anything which is short may not be sweet but most likely be intense and exciting, a long drawn pause of an existence must be tedious or so we assume...so I suppose a person living forever would come to respect life and everything associated with it, less and less as time goes by, becoming more nonchalant and jaded (like the protagonist from the movie “Man from Earth”). While a mortal having a life span of seventy years maybe would try to make the best of his/her life, or so we assume (this is of course a general statement, some people become bored even when they are twenty, so !) ... But then a longer life would mean more time to enjoy life rather than to rush through it, so much more time to see, learn, the possibilities are endless, maybe travel all around the world, read every book, taste every wine....well the arguments could go on and on...I wonder for someone like me (an ordinary earthling), would I regret anything I couldn't do since I had run out of time on my death bed or maybe I would be too tired to care?

“Round and round we go, or is it up and down?

Oh but there's so much more, much more!

Everything passes they say,

Of course they would, they have lived most of what I haven't lived passed today.

Yet I dislike when they sympathize,

As if that could soothe, and help me get rid of this vice!

So up and down we go, or round about...

Till I am dizzy but there's more, so much more!”