Would an unlimited life still be worth living?
What it argues
An indefinitely long life would eventually exhaust every categorical desire, leaving only conditional ones, and a life with nothing desired for its own sake is not worth living. Meaning depends on finitude: death is what makes your projects urgent rather than optional.
The probe
Name the desires you would still have if you had unlimited time. Those are your categorical desires; they are what your life is actually about.
The source
The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality — Bernard Williams, 1973. The link goes to the text or to a catalogue record for it, not to a summary. This one is a catalogue record: the entry gives you the question and the probe, not the argument in the author's words.
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