Arthur Morgan
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Not quite, he ducked out early to sort out the air conditioner and tried to frame it as him trying to help his family mourn in comfort (It was summer, to be fair) but as he all but admits in the book, it was really because he's afraid of death."Screw you, Mom and Dad"? Isn't Moviebob on record as having ducked out on a family member's funeral in order to play Super Mario Bros. 3?
Everyone fears dying, that's normal. But when someone close dies, Bob doesn't focus on the loss of a loved one, which normal people do. He focuses on his own mortality. Death is a reminder that one day, he might not be here. And as he gets older, as his body begins to fail him and more people he knows (of) die, that reminder occurs again and again. He finds the idea so troubling and tries to ignore it, but can't. The problem is he's an atheist, because the Lord dared not grant him his wish of bringing his dog back to life when he was 10. So, big brain that he is, he knows once he or anyone else croaks, that's it.
The only option left is to become immortal. How? Well with science, of course. Science is the same thing as magic in his deluded, tiny little mind, and money is the fuel for the creative fires that will churn out space ships, robot bodies, and lightsabers. But that hasn't happened yet. Is it because of pesky things like the laws of physics, restrictions on our understanding of the human mind, and a lack of technology that will allow us to take the next step forward? Of course not, it's because of filthy Middle Americans sucking up resources and wasting precious money keeping themselves alive. It has to be the answer, because to admit otherwise is to admit that he was born too early for him to achieve immortality.
A while back he tweeted that he expects to live another seventy years. Twenty years ago there were some theories that people aged twenty to thirty, which Bob was at the time, could expect to reach 110 or even 130 years of age regularly thanks to the advances in modern medicine. The problem with that is even with modern medicine, the body eventually breaks down due to arthritis, organ degradation, and general wear and tear that we can't undo. It's why people get knee pain in their thirties, we can't replace cartilage. But he doesn't understand that, he probably doesn't even care. You could give him the option between being completely healthy, but dying at sixty, or living to 100 as a vegetable, and he'd pick the latter every time because he doesn't care about the quality of life, just so long as he can keep living.
"I plan to live forever. So far, so good" is a joke. To Bob, it's a mission statement that takes over everything else. Being a critic, a big time director, a billionaire and a playboy all pale in comparison to his life going forever. I would have included vengeance, but at this point he might take death if it meant he could fuck over someone he hates.