Poll: Who wants to live forever?

[Phlakes]

If you want to understand want being dead is would be like (assuming god/heaven doesn't exist), remember what everything was like to you before you were born.

Personally, I'm a huge coward when it comes to death because I don't know if God/heaven exist, so I don't want to take the chance.

 

[Therumancer]

I said yes, because truthfully I find death fairly scary. I'm not the best person in the world and aware of my own failings. If an Angel appeared that would mean that there is a Heaven and a Hell, and I'm not sure if I'd want to roll those dice if I didn't have to despite promises of forgiveness and redemption.

To put things into perspective for all the bad things that could happen with eternal life, I'd figure by definition even that pain would be better than Hell.

 

[lwm3398]

No way.

Eventually, everyone else would die.

How fuckin lonely would that be?

Suicide would be the final option after human extinction. No one can survive a straight-up bullet to the face, ever-living or not.

That would be a lot of make-up, wouldn't it? To appear old and aging like your spouse?

I would not enjoy it right after my friends died, but I'd get used to it. Imagine working for a few years, saving a bunch of money, and then doing whatever the hell you wanted with it? Or experiencing all the technology to come? It'd be sad, sure, but with all that time you could learn so much, then finally end up being the wise old person in a Bioware RPG.

 

[SoxFan96]

If I were to live forever I would become a hermit because anybody who I begin to care for would end up dead. It would be to painful.

However, if I had a true purpose like a rather interesting character in The Life The Universe and Everything (Douglas Adams) named Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged. He goes around insulting everybody in the universe in alphabetical order.
Now that is how to live.

 

[Mandal0re]

People always say immortality would suck because all your loved ones would be dead etc etc but i disagree, it would be a price worth paying if it meant the knowledge and wisdom that eternal life would bring. So long as my body didnt degenerate horribly i say fuck yes.

 

[Lullabye]

Immortaality would be perfect for me. I move around alot so I odn't really get connected to any one to much, and since I generally dislike people, it's not a big loss. Worse comes to worse and I get tired of life, I could always just kill myself. Plus chances are, someone would kill me anyway.

 

[TheBoulder]

Even though I voted yes, I'm sort of half and half on this matter. For one, I can see the human species evolve. Then again, I couldn't bear to lose my loved ones time and time again. It really depends what form I take. If I stay the exact same way that I am now, I would refuse. But if I turn into the 'perfect' human, then I probably will take it.

 

[BlindMessiah94]

If I had the choice to end it at some point then yes. But if the world blows up and I am left floating in space for eternity..that would suck.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

If i couldn't age and look the same as i do now i can handle it.

 

[NinjaTigerXIII]

The Only way eternal life would be remotely fun is if you had eternal youth because after 130 years you would be trying to kill yourself every day

 

[kastanok]

I can barely stand the idea of living another 20 years, let alone ETERNITY. I actually can't think of any worse fate, I really can't. Illness, work, fatigue, loneliness, loss... why would anyone want to put themselves through that for even longer than a life time?

 

[Cody211282]

I would say yes if I could give it up at any point I wanted to, no otherwise.

 

[Shifty Tortoise]

I'd love to, but only if I could control the amount of time I can sleep for, say I get bored? I'd just sleep through a couple of decades then have fun catching up.

And I kind of agree with this guy.

I'd like a longer lifetime, say around 200 years (and the aging thing is changed for us humans), but eternal life would suck, especially if others didn't have it. Watching everything die around you while you sit and survive? That is a worse hell than I could ever imagine. Death is a release from life, and should be treated that way, not like it is horrific.

It'd kinda suck if I was the only immortal, but I guess in the end you'd just get used to it. I disagree about the death being a release thing though. The thought that there is probably nothing after life scares the shit out of me.

Honestly? It scares the shit out of me too. I've always been tolerant of death though, since I was a kid, just because I kept telling myself that. I guess it was a denial thing, y'know? My Mum has always said that when she dies, her funeral shouldn't be depressing. She always tells me she'd want it like a new year party.

When it comes to death, I always say that we should celebrate who the person was, instead of mourning over their loss. Commemorate all of the great things they did, and distance yourself from it all with pride, not sadness.

I've always been a little grim too...

Oh yea, i completely agree about the celebration of a persons life and all they've done, don't get me wrong. It's just that for me, i'd prefer not to go at all.

But if i have to go i'd rather not see it coming, sudden death is the way for me XD

 

[QuickDEMOL1SHER]

I would LOVE to live forever for three reasons.

1. I want to see where the human race go's! Will we reach the stars? When?

2. I would be able to take infinite college classes and become the smartest person ever.

3. Think of the games! I would get to play EVERY generation of video games!

I think the whole "watching your loved ones die" thing, is a small price to pay.

 

[Kaymish]

hell yes if the years meant little to me could learn what i wanted to learn and build what i needed to build though i would probably get bored after a while and try something and someone will try to off me

though if the universe was truly that cool it would give me an out device

 

[Chancie]

No thank you. I don't want to lose everyone I love only to be stuck here...forever. After a while, life would start to feel empty and boring, I think. :/

 

[Mephisteus]

Yup. You'd just experience so much. Be able to do so much.

 

[Schneizel]

It depends on whether or not I could die when I finally chose to. If so, I'd take the prize. If not, I'd refuse it. I will have unending life on my terms, with the option to remove the "un" when the Earth is gone and I got bored of floating around in space.

 

[Outright Villainy]

Entropy would eventually make the whole venture pretty depressing. Sure, there's billions of years on earth, but then the sun goes out, and it'll be pretty boring for the next quadrillion years. Of course when it all leaks into electron soup it'll be even worse, not having any scenery. I can always hum Yakety sax though, so I guess i'll be pretty entertained. Immortality it is!