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Well, that would imply some replacement at some point of time. 
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No.
Let me die quickly when I cannot enjoy life anymore.
I'd rather be phishing!
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If I can retain my physical health and my mental health then I would live for at least a thousand years. There's so much to learn and see...
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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...yet there still won't be enough time to meet deadlines.
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I don't think about dying. It is the last thing I want to do. 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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"I am not afraid of dying. I just don't want to be there when it happens."
Woody Allen, if my memory is correct.
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Well, I would sit back and watch the humanity go on destroying itself until it is not amusing anymore.
So about ten years from now.
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Rage wrote: So about ten years months from now.
FTFY.
(yes, it's Demoralized Friday Doldrums in my neck of the woods)
Software Zen: delete this;
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It already stopped being amusing.
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Nope, I'm ok with leaving shortly after retirement, say 75 or so.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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No I would not want to live forever, without death there is no life!
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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However, after death there is no life..., probably.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Tell that to amoebas.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You mean Tardigrades[^]?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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No, amoebas - they reproduce by splitting, so technically the first ever one of 'em is still out there somewhere. Or more realistically, lots of somewheres.
And Tardigrades have sod all on cockroaches! 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Maybe, but -- like flying cars -- I wouldn't necessarily want anyone else to have access to it.
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Good point.
If everyone lived forever, or at least for a long, long time, then the planet would get seriously crowded!
Perhaps just for me and my family (including the dog - my wife cries so much each time we lose a little furry friend).
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I don't know. I would like the entire world have access to it. Have your heard the Chinese are going to dominate the world, because of their shear numbers. There are lots space out in the cosmos to uncrowded. 
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An extra thought is: Would I retire?
My wife wonders why, when I get home from work, I start working on my computers at home. It's because I enjoy programming - creating new software is fun (usually).
A few years ago I was given the opportunity to give up the management line (Director/Manager of Software Development) and went back to "pure" programming as a Senior Software Engineer. It was actually slightly more money and much, much more fun! It was the best decision I made, career-wise - and probably health-wise as my stress levels dropped considerably. Since then I moved to another job, also as a Senior Software Engineer, which paid a lot more money, with shorter hours and even less stress - and I got learn a lot of new stuff. Fascinating.
Eventually, I suppose, the amount of new stuff that I want to learn may drop off but, until then...
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I get your point. Coding is my hobby and I too passed up on management offer. The idea of going to work and just talk to people, sitting through mind numbing meetings after meetings and writing reports is not my idea of fun.
For retirement, as the way economy is going, most of us would not be able to retire. Social Security may be dried up by the time we get to call it permanent vacation. I will work until I dropped dead on my keyboard.
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Leng Vang wrote:
For retirement, as the way economy is going, most of us would not be able to retire. Social Security may be dried up by the time we get to call it permanent vacation.
I've always taken for granted this is actually going to be the case. If there's anything left, don't want it to live on, I want it purely as a bonus.
I have some retired acquaintances who are living miserably (no other way to put it) with whatever the government decides they're allowed. I don't want that for me.
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I do program in my spare time, but that is not because I find programming fun [any longer].
I program because I encounter lots of tasks in fery different fields where some software can be a nice tool to solve another issue. Like keeping track of my music collection. Like illustrating how real life objects might interact, in a small simulation model. Like making a workable backup system for my computer. Yes, a backup system is directly related to the computer, but what I strive for is to have the software completed and available, not the programming of it.
Maybe I want to "solve problems". But those problems are not in multiple inheritance and sofware paradigms and self modifying code and patterns. Those are not the real problems. Even if my problem solving uses software as a hammer and a saw, the real problem has little to do with the compiler. I care for some real problems, not for the tools as such.
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