Biotechnology and artificial intelligence are rapidly approaching a point where they could extend our lives to hundreds of years.

But as Schopenhauer said, if life is a pendulum swinging between the pain and suffering of not having something and the boredom of having it—what happens if this swing continues indefinitely?

Does immortality bring freedom, or the weight of endless loneliness?

In this section, we examine the dark cautions of philosophy—from Tolstoy to Kierkegaard, from Sartre to Rumi and Yunus—against the backdrop of science’s promises, striving to find our way.