I just watched the moving "Tuck Everlasting" about four people who drank from a spring to achieve everlasting life. As the Father of the bunch is talking with a young woman who happened upon their secret, he describes their everlasting life as similar to rocks stuck at the side of a creek never moving, never changing.

The movie is not that great but it does bring up some good points about everlasting life and how it could be frustrating to just be stuck.

Part of the circle of life is living so that you can die. You live, you learn and then you die. For anyone who has ever worked in geriatrics, you know that the elderly regress back to children. As a nurses aide in an Alzheimer's ward, I had the pleasure of feeding, changing diapers and bathing a man who had been a fighter pilot, a scientist and a father to three children. His eyes were bright and his body active but his mind was lost in another universe. I watched as his wife would stroke his hand talking about the life he had left behind knowing that he didn't have a clue as to what she was even saying.

If there were everlasting life, the troubles that it would bring would be more than the benefits. You would be stuck in one era, one part of your life never changing, never growing, never moving on to the next challenge. I know more now than I knew when I was 18. Everlasting life wouldn't prolong that knowledge but it would loose the knowledge I will gain from now until I am say 50.