Eternal - Perfection

Question: Well, gee. if being eternal is a necessary condition for being perfect, why don't us human want to be eternal? We hate the idea.

Plato suggests that being eternal and unchanging is something necessary to be perfect. Everything that exists in the form world is so. Why then, don't humans want to be eternal- you hear people talking about how living forever would be terrible. The reasons they give generally include, well your friends would die, or you'd get bored. I answer that if humans were eternal, your friends would not die, and you wouldn't get bored if you were unchanging. It's simply because we are imperfect in other ways that we cannot enjoy the perfection of immortality.

Additionally, the parallels between the perfect form of a human and the notion of a Christian Heaven are astonishing. In both, you have eternal life, and nothing ever changes because you will always be good and content with the happiness that you have in obeying the good lordy-lord, everyday. It seems strange to me that people wouldn't want eternal life on earth, but that they find heaven to be a reward...