I've Decided to Live 120 Years

What must be a paradigm for the second half of life? I’d like to suggest completion as the value we should pursue in the second half of our lives. Completion means everything is realized and to make complete or whole. What do you make complete? Yourself, your life. (Location 423)

According to doctors and nurses who have witnessed many people dying in hospice care, how people die is closely related to how they have lived. People who have regrets because they failed to live the lives they wanted generally have a worse time dying. At the moment of death, they may not be able to control the movements of their bodies, they may have more stiffness and pain, and their breathing may become ragged. Conversely, people who think they’ve lived the lives they wanted without regret, people who affirm that their lives were good and that they could not have lived them any other way, meet their deaths much more comfortably. They are more likely to close their eyes in peace. Their bodies relax, and satisfied smiles appear on their faces. The kind of death you meet ultimately depends on whether or not you are satisfied as you think back over the path you have taken. (Location 567)

What would it be like if there were no death for humans? If we could continue to live forever without dying, would we be happy? Think about it. If you repeated the kind of days you are living now, day in and day out for thousands of years, how would you feel? It probably wouldn’t be all that great. You would have to continue your efforts to find food and shelter, to feed and clothe your body, and to get rest. The daily suffering of having to compete for survival would exhaust you. An endless life of this sort might be so boring and painful that you would want to die as quickly as possible. And the monotony of living forever might also make you disinterested and lazy about pursuing self-development and spirituality. Death is, in fact, an incredible blessing for our spiritual awakening. (Location 575)

I learned from Korean Sundo to view death as the completion of life, not its end. (Location 593)

Will you live the second half of your life merely as compensation for or as an extension of your period of success? Or will you create and (Location 767)

develop your life anew from the perspective of completion? That depends on your choices at this turning point. (Location 768)

Everyone should keep this one precept in mind when designing a second half of a life centered on the value of completion: you have to create your own health, happiness, and peace; you cannot rely on someone else to provide them. If you are responsible for your health, happiness, and peace and take an active approach toward enhancing them, a longer lifespan will follow naturally. (Location 963)