Poll: Who wants to live forever?

[Sir Rammington Steel]

I would most certainly say yes. Sure, after who knows how long things would get pretty boring, but I think that it would be worth it for all of the things that you could see and do. Not to mention who knows, maybe after a few billion years of nothingness something new and interesting would come about. I think that the ability to live forever would be a true gift if used the right way, oh and with loads on top of loads of patience.

 

[Oneirius]

Many of you seem to ask for one of two things to go along with your gift of immortality. Very well, let's see if it makes things any more interesting: with your eternal youth, health, and life, you may also choose one of two "bonuses"(because you bribed the angel with porn, of which there is none in heaven): either the ability to commit suicide once every hundred years if you really, truly want to, OR kickass superpowers.(And I am talking kickass here: flight, super-strength, super-speed, energy manipulation, whatever)

What about now?

 

[Anarchemitis]

[HEADING=2]I shall live my life to the fullest, laughing in the face of fear, so that

Death will tremble to take me.[/HEADING]

 

[HellbirdIV]

Probably yes. Unless someone proves to me that death isn't scary.

 

[qazmatoz]

Yes because human progress is fascinating. Technologically alone, within twenty years cells phones have gone from the size of an original Xbox to multimedia devices like the iPhone.

 

[-Samurai-]

While I have the most ridiculous fear of death, a life without my loved ones(one person in particular) is a fate worse than death.

No immortality for me.

 

[iLikeHippos]

Everything that is have an end eventually. Doesn't matter if you have the possibility to live 50000000 years and beyond.

If I'd live forever, I would experience too much for my brain to keep up with anyway.

However, I'd trade in immortality for superpowers any day. Why isn't that in the poll?

 

[skeliton112]

I dont think it would get boring, there would be new thing 2 play with every couple of years, and you could technically reteir 60 years in and live out the rest bludging of the government!

 

[JoshGod]

if by the time our world dies we cant inhabit another planet life would drive you insane

 

[likalaruku]

If I had to eat babies to stay eternally alive & reasonably young (why live forever if you're just a brain-dead rotting corpse writing in pain?) I would eat babies to do it.

 

[ThrobbingEgo]

I think Hob Gadling is the only non-evil human immortal in fiction who isn't suicidal. Before I would have questioned why fictional immortals are always portrayed as suicidal, begging for death, now that I've read Sandman, I can point to Hob as the exception. Hob is more or less what I would be if I were immortal.

I am of the opinion that existence is preferable to non-existence. (Granted, Hob lives in a world with magical beings, where there are multiple afterlives including heaven, living in dream's domain, and reincarnation. In his reality, living forever on plain old DC-universe earth may not be his best option.)

 

[Adorann]

You may be immortal to the physical realm, but the mental anguish and suffering from friends/family dying around you(most from old age) would be worse than death for a lot of people. Immorality can be a curse as much a blessing.

 

[Oneirius]

You may be immortal to the physical realm, but the mental anguish and suffering from friends/family dying around you(most from old age) would be worse than death for a lot of people. Immorality can be a curse as much a blessing.

The question is what you think it will be for you.

 

[nick n stuff]

eternal life would be too painful. loss, ageing and no possibility of dying at the rock and roll age of 27 the official cool death age. (don't worry, i don't plan to top myself at 27)

 

[TomCorf]

yes, only if it meant i was invinsible and could survive massive falls and bullets. if not then no.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Congratulation, it appears that you have just won the cosmic lottery. The angel appears before you one summer morning with the most amazing prize: immortality. Eternal life, eternal youth and vigor. No wound or illness or other cruelty of man or the universe would be able to deal you any lasting harm. Like a demigod, forever and ever and ever. No tricks, no catches, no games, no secret tests of character. You don't sell your soul or anything like it. Just a gift. A cool gift, because the universe is just cool like that.
Take your time to think. You can refuse the prize, if you want. But if you do so, then that's it. The opportunity won't present itself again. It's now or never: just shake the angel's hand and immortality is yours.
Hell of a deal.(or is it?)

I would shake that angels hand pretty quickly. Immortality with no drawbacks? Can't say I'd mind at all. Sure watching one's loved one's die over and over would likely be a cause of some amount of mental torture, but I could live with that.

I have to ask was this pun intended or just a mistake but an awesome one at that?

 

[Emilin_Rose]

Apart from fear of death, there are a lot of good things about living forever. Say 2000 years pass and someone asks you there really was an atomic bomb or if its just a myth. You can tell them that there was, and thus help preserve history while at the same time observing the advancement of humankind. Losing loved ones would be hard i admit, but a lot of those loved ones are going to die before you do anyways. You can't avoid the pain, but you can remember them.

Imagine, if you will, having a scientist able to live for 1000 years, starting back in, i'd say about 1870.

The problem with most scientifics now is no matter how specific one is, there's that niggling little detail in the back of their heads that seems so minutely obvious that they don't think to write it down. Not a particular fault of theirs, but human nature. Everyone assumes a scientist of all people is going to be able to pick it up right off the bat. But the new scientist that takes over for the retired scientist is looking at it from a different angle, even just slightly. As a result it takes him a few months to figure out almost exactly what his predecessor was thinking, and a few years to perfect the swing of things, so to speak, and start making real progress.

So for each change of hands in the scientific community, we lose a few years of in depth research and advancement. However, aforementioned scientist who lives a thousand years, wouldn't need to change hands, and thus, could get far more progress. With infinite time comes infinite ability to learn and apply the knowledge. Imagine being able to cure aids, and from there, curing some other deadly illness from the future, because you know how to research and what to look for and not look for so specifically that it could take months for someone else to do it.

Or, if you care less about the advancement of your fellow man(and I can't blame you really), you'd be able to see the future of video games and the ultimate downfall of man entirely.

and given that no illness or wound inflicted by mortal man could kill you, that opens up some options that otherwise would be ill-advised at best.

Me, personally, if i got to live forever and see the downfall of man, the first thing i'd do is probably go have sex with a hunter. *shlickshlickshlick*