Why is this called the path of Continual Unfoldment and Growth?
That is because it leads one to the ever on-going process of Learning, Growing, and Evolving, with each Step of the Process going through its Learning, Growing to Evolving.
A time will come when one begins to have the desire to Evolve oneself.
The advantage of having a longer life is to have more time to evolve the self. (STQ-2013-p5,20x2)