ABSTRACT
What would you do if you were told you have a year to live? A month? A day? You would probably have very diff erent plans for each scenario. Our diverse attitudes to life stem, in part, from our diff erent estimates of how much time we have. Some people think that life is very long; that seven or eight decades of living are more than enough. Others believe that they would be happy if they could become immortal. Still others think that immortality would be intolerably boring. Each one of us has her own notions of time, mortality and the good life.
