Poll: Who wants to live forever?

[Arcane Azmadi]

Yes SIR! COME ON MEN, CHAAAAAARGE!!!!!

...oh wait, you were asking the question literally?

No way. I don't even think I have enough to do to fill out the life I've got; I'll probably want to die by the time I'm 50. While it might be interesting to live long enough to finally see mankind unified and at peace, I doubt I'd have the patience to live that many thousand years. Besides, it's far more likely we'd all wipe each other out, or destroy the planet and drive ourselves to extinction through carelessness and neglect, and who'd want to live to see that?

 

[Brandon237]

You could be a true hero (except you wouldn't be in danger). You could do things that would kill others to save lives as you suffer no lasting harm. It would be awesome. You could also make unimaginable amounts of money and learn thousands of things that no human would have time for. Worlds most dangerous jobs anyone? I would want to see what was discovered. I want to know! I want to see. I would be the world's greatest resource once I had the knowledge of centuries.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Men of Tanith, do you want to live forever?

In all seriousness, no. It get rather boring, and insanity and senility would hit you like a ton of brick eventually.

 

[Oneirius]

You all seem to have some sort of problem with floating in a cold, entropic void for all eternity after the heat death of the universe.
I can respect that.
So let's change the deal: you don't ACTUALLY live forever, only for, say, one billion years.
What about now?

 

[O maestre]

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 is just a shame that sometimes people's passings are untimely.

i agree 200 years is sufficient time, there is just so much than cannot be done or learned in the time we have allotted.

then again if that is the case, then how will humans feel about age once we start exploring space? eternal life could certainly be useful in that context

and if i was biologically immortal i would like immortality in the same way the Turritopsis nutricula jelly fish has it, it basically rverts back to its teen years, grows old and then reverts then grows old, rince and repeat ad infinitum

 

[kickyourass]

Aww dang I thought this was about the song, but either way. YES provided that my body didn't age, I mean there's not much of a point to eternal life if you spend most of it in too weak a state to move.

 

[Zyxx]

Only if I got the Hob Gadling option - I could still die, but not until I really, truly wanted to.

But eternal life as a weak, squishy human? No thanks. I'd much rather take an afterlife option and ascend to a much more awesome form, or else continue the reincarnation cycle until I hit enlightenment, or whatever.

Also: I find it amusing that eternal life is offered by an angle. Where's my protractor? I want to measure it.

 

[O maestre]

Isn't mortality that what makes us human? So no.

lol then the question should be rephrased; do you really want to be human?

a peculiar question i know but interesting none the less.

 

[BrionJames]

Eternal life would be pretty sweet. Though yes like the Highlander, you would have to watch all of your loved one grow old and die. Which would be incredibly depressing and probably make you want to die too. However, if you focus on the good parts of it you could probably launch into a great campaign to create a utopian society like in Star Trek.

 

[CloakedOne]

Easily pick Immortality, no contest.

 

[Oneirius]

Only if I got the Hob Gadling option - I could still die, but not until I really, truly wanted to.

But eternal life as a weak, squishy human? No thanks. I'd much rather take an afterlife option and ascend to a much more awesome form, or else continue the reincarnation cycle until I hit enlightenment, or whatever.

Also: I find it amusing that eternal life is offered by an angle. Where's my protractor? I want to measure it.

You forgot to mention that besides ascension to paradise and reincarnation, death could ALSO mean things like eternal suffering in hell, eternal boredom in some sort of purgatory, or just nonexistence. There is no way to know, and the angle isn't going to tell you.

 

[quiet_samurai]

Immortality yes.... invincibility no. I would probably like to die somethime. After probably around 1000 years one would get fed up with humanity asn eventually life itself.

 

[BabySinclair]

I would probably like to have the Bullet-Proof Monk version where I stop aging and have limited control over the elements as well as time and space working in my favor to keep me alive.

 

[Project_Omega]

I would NOT like to live forever, as it would be quite painfull and dull after a while.
But I would like to live LONGER (lets say for a 1000 years) along with my girlfriend (yes, I am loyal and I love her).

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

As long as I can have children, and maybe some other Immortals. I mean, think of the things you could accomplish in a Immortal lifetime. Especially if no disease could kill me, they could test for cures using me as a guinea pig.

And I could run an antiques store!

 

[wootsniper]

I dont know, I ALREADY AM IMMORTAL!!!

 

[Mechsoap]

then i could use eternity to focus and medititation and live in the woods

i still would only if my best friend could live so

 

[Riobux]

Well, it would depend on one single factor: Could I choose to kill myself at any time? If I can, then I accept it. If I can't choose to kill myself at any point, then I'd refuse.

The reason is simply because of the apocalypse. No matter what, the world will end one day. It will one day crumble away into a mixture of rock and dust. The last thing I want is to be forever suffering unable to breath but yet still living.

 

[Klarinette]

Nah... you'd think seeing everyone you ever care about die would be super depressing. And you can't say you'd spend your eternity actively not caring for anyone else.