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Mis-quoting Woody Allen: "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it by not dying."
I could stand living for as long as it goes. I really enjoy it. If time stretches on into eternity, then I will have a lot of time to be whatever it is that I am next, and if this whole personal identity thing is not a part of it, I think I will just enjoy it for as long as I can. This works for me. There may be something better, but I have not heard many strong contenders for something better than personal existence, so I look forward to enjoying this existence for as much time as I can.
Maybe older folks disagree, but I find that life is good, and I never have had too much of it. Some times are briefly slow, but I am happy. How much happiness is enough? I find that my life expands to encompass whatever joys I can find.
Maybe that whole carbon atom thing will work out. There is some abstract sense in which I acknowledge the likelihood of the destruction of personal identity, but for the moment I am somewhat tied to it.
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