What's Up Now?

I need to say at the outset that I am NOT depressed and I am NOT suicidal.  I don't want somebody reading this to rush to a telephone and call the cops to haul me away to a mental facility for "my own good."  Seriously. I have philosophical questions about life and death.  The answers I have found suggest life is not so special, so precious after all that every human being ought to be very, very interested in extending his/her life as long as possible.  I don't understand why living forever is a worthwhile goal.

I'm pretty sure nobody actually expects to live forever.  I don't think anybody reading this expects to be alive in 100 years.  But taking a 100 (or 200) year lifespan, what does that mean in terms of the life of the planet Earth, the Solar System, the galaxy, the universe?  Human life is insignificant.  It lasts no longer than the blink of an eye.  Any life.  Einstein, Jesus, you name it.

Let's say you want to raise a family and watch while they do the same.  Great.  Lots of kids and grandkids.  None of their lives matter.  You want to achieve goals in business or in your relationship with God.  So what?

I recognize that murder is a bad act.  You are depriving that person of the right to choose whether or not to live and how.  While I think the person's life is meaningless, I nonetheless consider ending it rude.  Society (in many countries) considers this the worst crime of all.  And then they get into wars with other countries or religions and do it on an enormous scale.  Somehow to prohibit personal murder and pursue mass murder can be explained by the same holy books.  No matter what book.  No matter where in the world.  This makes no sense to me.

Society says, the taking of someone else's meaningless life is a horrible crime.  OK, what about the taking of one's own life?  I can't see the rudeness.  You are ending something that's yours to end, right?  It's like a flame on a candle, subject to being ended at the whim of the universe.  You can be hit by a car, or exposed to a germ that kills you, or fall victim to any number of other life-ending problems.  Your life is entirely temporarily and fragile.  Under the circumstances, putting somebody under a psychiatric hold only make sense if you buy into society's view of the value of human life.  A view I do not share.