Immortality

[Rolf]

There is something i been thinking about for a while now. Lets say that you get offerd immortality. By who is not important, you just get the offer. You will live forever and you can't be killed by any weapon. The only problem is that only you become immortal. None of your friends or loved ones. Only you.
Would you become immortal if it where offerd to you?

I personally would never do it. If it meant i had to outlive my friends and loved ones i would never do it. How it must suck to become immortal only to spend eternety alone.

 

[AyrSuppli]

Probably not, but you never know...

 

[tzimize]

Well...I really really enjoy my own company, and the future seems pretty interesting. Why not? If I do become immortal, and get tired of it I'm sure we'll find a cure for it in the future anyway

 

[Terminate421]

No, thats a curse not a blessing

immortality doesn't stop aging. In other words, I will eventually become incapacitated to the point that I can't move, or die.

 

[delet]

Yay, this thread. Again. Again again...

No, living forever would be worse than any hell.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

I would do it. I could serve my family and friends until they are no more, giving them all my heart, and then I could serve humanity forever. Whatever it takes to ensure they survive.

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

Can't say I would. Forever is simply too long a time. You see pain, death suffering. If WW3 comes and obliterates the earth, you are left there alive and wandering about alone... Say (In the case that earth is decimeated to dust and you find yourself one day floating about in space)you find a way to "swim" in space (travel on your own and go anywhere you want), it would take you a ver long time to reach wherever you wanna go (alone) with no promise of ever seeing anyone again

 

[Marter]

I wouldn't. I don't want to have to deal with everything I care about leaving this earth while I remain.

 

[lacktheknack]

No. No I would not.

It's a curse, and I can't imagine interacting with the people around me for a hundred years, let alone forever.

 

[Zacharine]

Heck no. Eternity is a long time to live. I'd prolly be bored out of my mind before the millenia was out.


Now, if self-termination would still be allowed, that is another case entirely. After all, I can always make new friends, there is always more to learn, and losing a loved one no matter how much it hurts, will heal with time. And Once I get bored beyond belief, I could suicide / leave behind my immortality etc.

 

[JRCB]

If I don't age, then yes. And I would strive to make the world a better place.

If I do age, then no. It wouldn't be worth it.

I realize I would eventually lose all my loved ones, which would probably push me even further, knowing that I only had my cause.

 

[not_the_dm]

If some form of indestructibility and ceasing of ageing are part of the deal then the question is quite a difficult one. On the one hand, you can never be close to any one as they will wither and die whilst you endure, on the other hand, you would be there to see humanity walk among the stars, assuming that we stick around that long. That is something I would dearly love to see.

Tough question, at the moment, I'd say yes. That may well change...

 

[Nvv]

I would do so in a heartbeat. It's not like I'm not going to be around my loved ones for a natural lifespan. Of course watching them die will suck, but the possibilities! Watch what course human civilisation will take, perhaps lend a hand where possible.

 

[AvsJoe]

Not. A. Chance. It's not the "outliving friends and family" that bugs me, it's the "outliving the human race" that drives me to say no.

 

[BlackWaltz3]

Yes, I would take the deal. The alternative is all to horrifying.

 

[TechnoTransvestite]

I'd do it in a heartbeat.

No need worrying about friends and family, I'll just get more later (I'm only going to be around for a few more millenia, lots of time to work on social skills and getting offspring).

Question I feel is important: can my body change to a significant degree?

Basically can I spend 500 years learning all fields of science we currently know?
And what about spending 500 years learning martial arts?

And when the sun goes out or whatever, since apparently nothing can kill me according to what you said, I'd just swim across space to some other galaxy.

I'd have a lot of time to think about stuff, but I wouldn't mind.

 

[Treeinthewoods]

I ask one question -

Will I stay my youthful self as an immortal or will I end up with the body and mental capacity of a 150 year old man, deteriorating but unable to die?

 

[SteinFaust]

nope. i'd rather be invincible than immortal.

because immortality still leaves you able to be hurt or incapacitated. imagine, permanent stomach cancer? permanent quadropalegia?

invincibility makes you proof from anything. i'd just join the military for a few years and keep a bank account long enough for it to gain absurd interest for when i come back.