Living Forever — Immortality Series #1

There’s a simple way to get there

John Rehg
Soul Attitudes
Published in
3 min readMay 4, 2023

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Why do people want to live forever? You’d think with all the problems in this world it would be the opposite — we’d want to check out sooner rather than later.

But there’s that unknown.

The richest are spending millions to figure out how to live longer — all the way to infinity if possible — but it’s much simpler than that.

The idea hit me like a ton of bricks, except, fortunately, not like a real ton or I’d be dead and this series would be over before I started it!

Millions of dollars? Or tons of veggies?

I was reading an article that touted the health benefits of arugula. Basically, a review determined that for every 100 grams you ate per day of vegetables in this family, you had a 10% decrease in the risk of death from all causes.

Let’s do the math.

We all have, as far as I know, a 100% chance of death. It’s kind of guaranteed. The family of vegetables that includes arugula also contains broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, and kale. All veggies that I like to eat. (It contains others as well, but they aren’t on my fave list.)

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John Rehg
Soul Attitudes

Author, publisher, and software developer. I love to write about food, health, spirituality, humor, tech, and travel. I share insights I’ve learned in life.