I watched the video "Tuck Everlasting" last night. It was kind of a quirky film with Sissy Spacek, William Hurt, Ben Kingsly, an unrecognizable Amy Irving, and several others. The premise is that a family finds a stream that is the fountain of youth and they live forever. It is set in the early 1900's and they have lived for over 100 years. The movie makes you wonder whether living forever is as appealing as it first sounds. There are a lot of problems with not dying. For instance, it violates the circle of life whereby older people die to make way for new generations. Also when you live forever, everyone that you meet and care about eventually grows older and dies. It makes close relationships very difficult. A lot of people would begin to resent or even hate you for your gift. One of the characters was alive during the battle of Gettysburg and he has to live with the thought of the thousands who fought and died on that day. He also outlived his wife and his two children. A fifteen year old girl falls in love with a forever 17 year boy from the Tuck family. She had to decide whether to live with him forever by drinking from the fountain or just living out her life. Before I watched the movie, I thought it would be an easy choice. I've always thought that it would be great to be about 27 forever. Now, I'm not so sure. As the father says, "Don't be afraid of death, be afraid of a life unlived." Sometimes a movie is greater than the sum of its parts. This is one of those movies.