Cyber or Lifer: What would you give up for a thousand year lifespan?

In the future, machines will exist capable of housing a human consciousness, but you must surrender your life. What is so crucial about life? As Shakespeare said, it's a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing. Is this frail insubstantial existence worth holding on to? The only certainty in life is death. However, death can be delayed a thousand years. The Katch is an egg-shaped object, slightly larger than a brain, housing a human consciousness. Within the Katch is life eternal, or as close as humanity can get. Choose to be transformed into a consciousness housed in a machine, and you've chosen the greatest existence possible. You will be a Cyber. Are you willing to give up your human body? For a select few this is the question.