...I recall someone saying she actually[i] likes[/i] her arthritis because it allows her to predict weather so well. But ouch. 

 - It would be interesting to hear what the other Reniam-alternatives for afterlife are sometime (not necessarily now, for obvious reasons)... I also wonder what the ratio of immortals and dead spirits is - I am inclined to imagine that there would be very few angels compared to all the dead mortals on the Upper Plane (both for less tormented life and the good deities hopefully being not inclined to pressurize the spirits into ending themselves despite the bolstering of lines it would offer), but quite a lot of lesser demons compared to dead spirits on the Lower Plane. 

And oh yeah... Time is my greatest enemy, as the saying goes. So many things I want to and realistically could do and experience... Impending nonexistence itself leaves me fairly indifferent, but the end of opportunities and possibilities that comes with it means that the untold number of things I want to do (and the even more things I am inevitably going to come across and decide I want to do in the future) would become an impossibility. So yeah... If I could extend my life indefinitely, I would. (And not in the sense of a biological or electronic copy of me living on, either, though both could probably offer a similar amount of contribution to the world as I myself. I am egoistic enough to want to live on myself, though I am not opposed to all kinds of copies. My "electronic ghost" is probably here to stay already.)
- It is often regrettable that all kinds of protests tend to interfere with scientific advancement. While there are things I personally disagree with (such as many things that lastingly alter the mind and/or subject it to destroy-and-reconstruct - emphasis on the "destroy"-part - mechanisms, unsurprisingly), there are many which would greatly improve the lives of many, and which carry little chance of the condition worsening, but which has not even tried once on humans yet, despite the candidates being many. It has been a few years since we made a chip that restored a severed spine perfectly (rats again, it is always rats or mice - I had read about the aging enzyme some time ago). When will we get something like that for humans? It is - from what I've read - not likely to kill the subject or, for the matter, cause anything worse than the already-present full paralysis...

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@Ashgan: Jack correct me if I am wrong, but teleportation - while a very exhaustive and rarely carried through spell (that is certainly more than likely to endanger or - with even higher probability - outright end the life of the average mage) - is not something that is generally considered impossible. Just something exclusive to extraordinarily powerful mages.