Question

Cave seems to suggest that a longer life might be an obvious good but infinitely long life not obviously good or maybe obviously not good at all. How is the length of a life related to its goodness?

Answer 1

As one progresses in life, the quality or goodness of life decreases. The graph of life would be like that of a bell's curve. It would take a while to climb up the ladder, you will at some point be at the peak and then begins the deterioration. In life, you start off as a kid with wherein the only thing to worry about is study time. As one grows older, they get degrees, stable jobs, have a family. However, as one progresses in the later years of their life (old age), they are less mobile, they can no longer do the things that they used to. They have to be confined to spaces. There's so much that one achieves and accomplishes in the span of their lives, that later years have little to contribute to the goodness and quality of life. The longer and infinite one's life is, the goodness and quality comes down.