There are important and still obscure issues here, but perhaps enough has been said to cast doubt on this option as coherently satisfying the desire to stay alive. While few will be disposed to think that much can be made of it, I must confess that out of the alternatives it is the only one that for me would, if it made sense,have any attraction——no doubt because it is the only one which has the feature that what one is living at any given point is actually a life.