ABSTRACT
Although the various thinkers associated with existentialism may not agree with each other on every detail when it comes to meaning in life and the potential perils of immortality, they collectively offer up a vast array of arguments and examples suggesting that an immortal life, or at least an indefinitely extended one, could be worth living. It may be difficult to rule out completely certain worries about immortality/extension, but contemporary critics will need to address and contend with these arguments and examples more thoroughly in the future. This short epilogue ties the many threads of the preceding chapters together in offering one final defense of really long, and even everlasting, life. Ultimately, we each have the opportunity to self-cultivate and make our own existence matter or count, regardless of its duration. If we fail to do so, it is far from obvious that we can simply blame our failure on our continuing existence.
