Where are the Millenarians?

 kw: longevity, multiverse, musings

Among those who are so unwilling to die that they will try anything to circumvent the inevitable, I find a strange bunch who pin their hopes on the Multiverse.

The reasoning goes like this: the Multiverse has uncountable numbers of alternate universes that differ from the one we inhabit in numerous ways, from negligible to minor to rather major. They say (this is an approximate quote), "When someone in this universe is faced with death, so are many 'copies' in similar universes. Suppose you die in this universe, and so do many of your 'copies', but some of your 'copies' don't die in their universes. Can it be that your consciousness somehow traverses between universes, so that you find yourself in one of those where you didn't die? This can happen again and again. Therefore, nobody really dies, they just get a transfer to a place where they didn't die."

Let us consider for the moment that this supposition is true, and one may, just before (or during) dying, transfer to another universe where life goes on. If this can happen again and again, can it keep happening for a long, long time? If "nobody really dies," why is it that our universe doesn't seem to have anyone in it who has hung on for hundreds of years?

This couple recently celebrated their 81st anniversary. They are 98 and 102. Shouldn't there be someone out there celebrating anniversary #100, 200, or 1,000?

How is it that our universe isn't at the receiving end of lots of transfers? Further, if you get a transfer to the universe next door, what happens to the consciousness of your 'copy'?

Where are the thousand-year-old people?