“It is not uncommon to envision one’s life as a book, and then assume it must have a beginning, a middle and an end. This is reasonable since we tend to construct our identities as narratives: we often tell stories about who we are, what we have done, and where we are going, so thinking of a life this way comes naturally to us. But a book can be a short pamphlet, a thick epic, or maybe a never-ending fantasy series… which one would we want to be like?”

— Anders Sandberg, Desperately seeking eternity (2016)