Poll: If you could, would you "live forever"?
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Yes. I don't want to die now, so logically I don't want to ever die. After all, if I die after a long and rich life, I'll disappear and it'll be as if I hadn't been born to begin with.
Nope. I don't fancy the idea of eternal boredom, I'm jaded enough as it is. Add 1000 years I'd be insufferable and someone would kill me out of mercy to everyone else.
Then there's the fact The Earth couldn't sustain people not dying and that AI is going to kill us all anyway...
Enjoy your Terminator style apocalypse people.
Then there's the fact The Earth couldn't sustain people not dying and that AI is going to kill us all anyway...
Enjoy your Terminator style apocalypse people.
If i get to be a robot, then yes. Robots are fucking awesome.
Its also a lot more stable than living as a squishy human forever. depending on how you make a robot, they could go anywhere. Space travel would also be much more plausible thing for me
Its also a lot more stable than living as a squishy human forever. depending on how you make a robot, they could go anywhere. Space travel would also be much more plausible thing for me
Give up procreation for the ability to potentially live forever?
Yes, I certainly would. There's always adoption, or pets.
I highly doubt that boredom would ever become an issue, given the amount of entertainment available just today and the current wealth of human knowledge (which would continue to expand as you carried on living). There'd always be something worth doing, or someone.
It'd be tough to have everyone age and die around you, certainly, but that is really not much different from how life is already. Our parents often die during our lives and some have their lovers die during their lives, leaving them to bury their wife or husband of the past 5 decades. A rare few, very long lived people, have already had to see their children and even their grandchildren die of age.
So long as you had a reason to go on living I really see no obstacles. Rough parts and heartache, certainly, but those things might happen anyway. And it'd be interesting to know what would happen to your mind, during such a long life.
How would you relate to people after several lifetimes had passed?
Would you come to care more for others, or would you become distant?
Could you still love, would you love more or give up on it entirely to save yourself the pain of loss?
How does friendship work for an immortal, knowing you'd remain the same while the others age, change and die?
How would you change during your lifetime? Would you become set in your ways or able to change just like now?
Would your way of thinking and acting change, letting you take years to slowly read a book or a whole week just to eat a breakfast - because time stops really mattering to you? Or would you value your time even more?
Just to answer all of those questions, and many others, would make it worthwhile for me.
Yes, I certainly would. There's always adoption, or pets.
I highly doubt that boredom would ever become an issue, given the amount of entertainment available just today and the current wealth of human knowledge (which would continue to expand as you carried on living). There'd always be something worth doing, or someone.
It'd be tough to have everyone age and die around you, certainly, but that is really not much different from how life is already. Our parents often die during our lives and some have their lovers die during their lives, leaving them to bury their wife or husband of the past 5 decades. A rare few, very long lived people, have already had to see their children and even their grandchildren die of age.
So long as you had a reason to go on living I really see no obstacles. Rough parts and heartache, certainly, but those things might happen anyway. And it'd be interesting to know what would happen to your mind, during such a long life.
How would you relate to people after several lifetimes had passed?
Would you come to care more for others, or would you become distant?
Could you still love, would you love more or give up on it entirely to save yourself the pain of loss?
How does friendship work for an immortal, knowing you'd remain the same while the others age, change and die?
How would you change during your lifetime? Would you become set in your ways or able to change just like now?
Would your way of thinking and acting change, letting you take years to slowly read a book or a whole week just to eat a breakfast - because time stops really mattering to you? Or would you value your time even more?
Just to answer all of those questions, and many others, would make it worthwhile for me.
No. Oh sweet baby Jesus, no.
The idea of immortality is one of those weird phobias of mine that are entirely hypothetical yet will still inspire years of nightmares to come.
Do not want. I find the idea of cessation more comforting than a Heaven, so the idea of living forever to me is outright terrifying. Yeah, it could be cool in the short-term. Maybe do party-tricks or some shit like that for kids' birthday parties ("shoot the **** and watch him live.") or whatever floats your boat (or tickles your pickle, if immortality is applicable to such a thing). But think about the long term.... you'd be really old. Or something.
Oh, right, and billions of years of complete damnation of oblivion until the Universe itself comes apart at the seams likely from the deranged maw of a million paradoxical black holes forever sucking in themselves, giving birth to a massive abortion or some other mad science shit, until you are eventually torn apart by the blind claws of reality falling apart. The fact that so many people would agree to this without thinking of the consequences just kind of stuns me.
The idea of immortality is one of those weird phobias of mine that are entirely hypothetical yet will still inspire years of nightmares to come.
Do not want. I find the idea of cessation more comforting than a Heaven, so the idea of living forever to me is outright terrifying. Yeah, it could be cool in the short-term. Maybe do party-tricks or some shit like that for kids' birthday parties ("shoot the **** and watch him live.") or whatever floats your boat (or tickles your pickle, if immortality is applicable to such a thing). But think about the long term.... you'd be really old. Or something.
Oh, right, and billions of years of complete damnation of oblivion until the Universe itself comes apart at the seams likely from the deranged maw of a million paradoxical black holes forever sucking in themselves, giving birth to a massive abortion or some other mad science shit, until you are eventually torn apart by the blind claws of reality falling apart. The fact that so many people would agree to this without thinking of the consequences just kind of stuns me.