In the first place, life is not meaningless. Life is a grand tour, full of wonder, awe, beauty, and mystery. How long a body stays alive has no bearing on the issue.

My personal opinion is that the sense of personhood as a separate individual is an illusion, sustained by memory. Perhaps all these overlapping lives should be thought of as a single entity. Even if your body lived a thousand years, I think that you would be a different person. You’d have no use for those old memories from a thousand years ago—they’d be hard to manage. The question of personal identity is tricky. I address that issue in “The Staggering Implications of the Mystery of Existence”, available on the Kindle Store.

Why would living forever change anything as far as meaning? It means our environment would be constantly changing and new challenges would abound. This is predicated on living a relatively pain free, comfortable life

Well, I would say “no”. The biological function of this human machine is only the mechanics of life. What gives like meaning is how you live it. The experiences, the love, the wonder of viewing the world and how you affect others in a positive way. Leaving the world or just a small part of it better than when you found it. A line from one of my favorite poems which I have posted on this site: “The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life? Answer. That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and YOU may contribute a verse.” Walt Whitman.

Or if we can't? 100 years, 1000 years, 10,000 years. Just specks in the overall flow.

Life is only meaningless if you say it is.

That is a mute question but life is meaningless anyway!

No. Life has (can have) meaning regardless of the length of time it lasts. Life is represented by what we do while living, not by how long we live. That isn't to say that life cannot become meaningless after a period of time.

I really have no, clear idea of how long i would like to live. I know that it would be based on many factors, not least of which are health and mobility. One thing is certain, I would want the ability to say "Enough! Lemme outta here!"

Moses and noah lived almost a 1000 years and they had no complaints.

I guess I'll get tired of living eventually

I don't want to live forever!

I don't necessarily buy that life has meaning. It emerged out of the cosmos (or whatever we call it), so it just is. At some point, it won't be. Yeah, we have some sort of meaning we try to create in this trivial spec-of-time life we lead, but in the larger picture.......none.

??is it mean ing ful if we can't
...don't
...won't
...re fuse

Apparently, to some ~

Well...
I've been to the OTHERSIDE (and back)
... I know... Eyebrow raise...
BUT (Take it or leave it as you will)
'fact' is I can tell you with ANSOLUTE EXPERTISE' The Answer is:
Yes And no.

Let me know if you want to know more

Life is what you make it, forever or not ?

Yea, but it'd be a lot more convenient, unless you're suicidal.

Meaningless does not equate limitless.

Oh man.....so many good creation's in this thread???

Ahhh but we do! Live forever! Matter into energy into concousness into bialogical into infinity and beyound! I know this! Because iam enlightened, raised the dead, talked with the dead, & no the answears to all the toughest questions of are time!