the ending sucks

I would have done the same thing.

If you got inmortality you will say at first wow! it's amazing then ... I'm pretty sure that after 100 or 150 you will get bored and lonely.

Also you will be in pain all your life because if you family you'll see them die unless you convince them to drink as well (but that will be selfish because they have the right to make a life on their own).

The ending SUCKED. Another poster was right about all who keep saying those who think the ending sucked didn't understand the theme. I understand it just fine, and I disagree. So most of the Tucks just exist. Their loss. Someone famous once said "Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." Too true. If you're a dullard, then immortality is not for you. On the other hand, there are those of us that could easily pass eternity and wonder how it is going by so fast. It's kinda all in what you do with it. For another viewpoint on this theme, check "Groundhog Day" with Bill Murray. Message: You can live your life to the fullest AND live forever. In fact, Murray's character didn't "come to life" until he thought he WAS going to be immortal.

Someone else said - to a young poster - that s/he'd understand the theme when s/he got older (meaning why living long wasn't a good thing). Someone else said who would want to be 15 forever? Well, speaking as someone well into middle age, I can say that I for one would LOVE to be 15 forever. Middle age sucks, and it's gonna get worse from here. There is so much to see, so much to learn, so much to experience. The body, though, declines. Would I drink the water? In a heartbeat, with no regrets.

StarryEyes13 wrote: "the fact that she did grow up and die and left jesse all alone and heartbroken forever even though they were in love is what i liked about the ending." You, Sir/Madam, are insane. Do you also torture small animals for fun? Have guys/girls fall in love with you just so you can break their hearts and get your jollies? If the 13 is your age, you can look forward to a long life of bitterness and lonliness with that attitude.

I was surprised~!~ but I liked the ending.

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It was incredibly sad, I cried a lotttt. But I guess it would've been sad either way because she would be giving up a lot. Altough, I do wish they would've ended up together.

Good things fall apart; so better things can fall together. :)

I originally agreed with the posters who said it was because for the Tucks, "time didn't exist for them," so 8 decades would feel the same as 8 years or 8 months, but then I realized... hey, he's riding a motorcycle and wearing modern clothes at the end. He would've known that many years had passed, if he only saw a stray newspaper's date on the ground or something when he and his brother went on trips around the world every 10 years. He could've come back to check on her after the first decade. She still would've been only 25 at that point, and at least she could've been able to tell him she decided not to drink from the spring so he'd be able to move on. Maybe he would find another love who DID want to drink from the spring. After all, he has eternity to find her.

But I agree with the posters who said the ending was beautifully sad, and had to be that way to carry the message of "live your life to the end."