Poll: You will live forever

[Pirate Of PC Master race]

I think you underestimate the effects sensory deprivation has on the mind and the toll a full millennium stuck in emptiness takes on you.

And thankfully, I have infinite time to recover from it. Why so pessimistic?

Who says you will ever recover from it? Not everything is a certainty given infinite time.

Once your mind is gone, it might very well be gone forever.

Considering that we all born without one, I'd say chance of getting one back or making a new one in infinite amount of time close to 100%.

I recommend coming up with better questions. Because for immortals, anything that does not last forever isn't a limit, anything that has impossibly small chance is something that will happen. Crevice thing? That WILL happen. Government experiment? It WILL happen. Anything you can put "if" in, it can and will happen - that's how infinite time works. But all those are mere obstacles, because you can always outlast them.

 

[Saelune]

I should add that I aspire to see humanity meet other civilized aliens. Then I become a reverse Marvel character when humanity dies out and I become some other race's version of The Collector or something.

 

[Kae]

It's both really, but I would take it as seeing time pass, civilizations come and go and eventually the End of this World only to be condemned to drift in Space for probably an eternity before being able to find living beings which are not really likely to be sentient is most definitely an interesting experience and to be honest I'm not really looking for happiness, and that would give me time to study absolutely everything, I could become a Loremaster, keeper of the Human history assuring that it would never be forgotten.

 

[JoJo]

I would accept, though I would prefer a get-out clause where I could choose to end my life if I wished. I enjoy life very much so extending it would be preferable to death. I can get over losing people close to me, there'd always be new places to visit and new people to meet. Sounds like fun actually, changing my identity every few years, trying a new life and a new career.

 

[FalloutJack]

Is this a blessing, or a curse? What will you do with your time?

Well, in the fullness of time, I suppose the answer is that I could do everything, but there are things that I have no preference for, so almost everything.

 

[Level 7 Dragon]

Depends.

I'm worried that humanity will change and evolve and I will remain the same boring short dude with hairy hands. Well, I'll have to change my perception of the world and time. Perceve time only in changes of state. Like, end up in a cave for 500 years, but remember only walking in and walking out.

I wonder if I will have infinite memory and be able to change my body. I probably would't need to sleep or eat, so I'll dedicate all of my time to art, study and videogames.

After writing a three tome deconstruction of the souls games, I'll probably dissapear or assume a new identity.

After accumilating thousands of years of knowledge, it would be difficult to relate to other human beings. It's possible that I'd leave to the mountains and become an ancient monk.

What if the world would get destroyed. Probably launch myself in the direction of the nearest inhabited star system. Would get a few books along the way. I'll use up all my wisdom to build a bastion of culture and science in space that would uncover every enigma and look beyond the furthest star.

I wonder if I would be able to ascend to a higher plane of existance, since this body would get boring after a while. Humans would get boring after a while, plus, it would be hard to form emotional attachment, since they drop like flies. I'd share my gift or create a race of automatons that last a little longer by my standarts.


Sooner or later, the starts will fade and matter will begin dissolving. The universe will become unsuitable for sentient life. I'd probably build a time machine or something. Go back to the creation of the universe, only to end up floating in void.

As my one last wish, I'll unleash my last burst of great power.

"let there be light!"

 

[Scarim Coral]

Couldn't it be both?

I mean being immortal especially it's the regenerate type means I can pulled off crazy stunts but over time, it become clear it's a curse that you are to keep on living and eventually everyone you loved will died.

I would says it depend on my mental state and if I able to adapt. I mean I can keep on making new friend to replace the deseased unless I can no longer handle it and aswell if I decide to adopt a new persona as in changing my apperance, tastes and personality.

Also it would also be what I make out of it like if I can build a legacy for being a immortal. I mean imagine if you founded a group or organization that you will forever run like a charity group or something to do good in the long run.

 

[Frankster]

Could I have an option to turn my pain recepters on/off at will instead of off all the time?
Sado masochism would lose half its appeal without it and if you're going to live forever then chances are you're gonna experiment a bit...

The idea of being some timeless witness to humanity's history would be appealing, but should the race get flushed and you're the only human left, it's gonna be awfully lonely... Guess my answer partially depends on if there's other civilizations to meet and integrate with, because floating around in the void for all eternity sounds like a horrible fate and a true curse.

 

[Evonisia]

It would start as a blessing, but eventually become a curse as civilisations come and go and the world eventually ends, with me adrift in the universe forever unable to die and with nothing to occupy me but my thoughts.

 

[Recusant]

A curse. I don't understand how anyone could see it as anything but. Do you really find this life so idyllic that you'd never want to experience another?

Life isn't so idyllic, that's why this is appealing to me. Not having to worries about reality's dangers, and living to maybe see better times. Plus with true immortality I could make life better.

But you're only immune from physical dangers. The heartbreak of watching your loved ones die, the isolation of having the philosophy of society alter around you, the revulsion of seeing what the next round of mutations bring the human race, the rejection of being seen as "that two-eyed, tiny-headed fogey", seeing every movie you ever loved remade into a horrible bastardized version by the thirty-second century version of Michael Bay...

You would see better times, to be sure. But you'd also see worse ones. You'd live long enough to see humanity at its worst, and that would rapidly take the shine off whatever your perceptions of immortality are.

I'm already embittered by my inability to really do anything. Such power would allow me to do more than sit on my ass and complain. Ive seen fiction where immortal beings become jaded by such, but that's cause they just sit around and complain...forever. I certainly wouldn't just be some observant outsider. Id be out there doing things.

Well, I can't speak to what you've read, but I can speak to what I've seen- and that's by and large people- smart, powerful, capable people- becoming jaded and bitter when they learn that no matter how much you learn, how much power you gain over your fellow human beings, and no matter how capable you become, you can't overcome the limits of humanity. All immortality does is remove the limits of time.

If you're already embittered by your inability to improve things, how much better are you going to feel when the excuse of "Oh, well, I'm only mortal" is taken away?

 

[Queen Michael]

Here's how I see it. Do you want to die today? Huh, you don't? Okay, how about tomorrow? You don't think you'll want to die tomorrow either? Well, then you probably don't ever want to die.

Dying is like any other activity. If you keep saying "I'm totally intending to do it, just not today," then you don't actually want to do it at all.

 

[RedRockRun]

Think about death and how it means you will stop existing. You won't be floating around, watching things. You won't fall asleep and wake up sometime later. You'll just stop, and you will never be conscious again. There is no worse fate than that. Immortality is the greatest of blessings.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

As I am now, even without the life-threatening stuff? Pass. If I could make a few changes, then... maybe. But I don't really want to outlive my partner. So, make that a pass, I guess.

 

[cleric of the order]

Being forever alive does not mean being stimulated or physically sound, perhaps when life on earth is exterminated. Perhaps after you a buried underground unable to move. Perhaps you will exist as your chemical compounds when the sun explodes. Perhaps you will live on as a slurry of your own organic juices after some serial killer dumps you in a bath tub.
Being invincible would be better.

Now I'd love some dimension hopping super teleport powers even if that would likely end in the spread of super disease and cause massive suffering across the mutliverse.

 

[Callate]

I haven't had clammy teenage fingers for quite some time. Are we talking about de-aging me, here? How far? I mean, eighteen or nineteen wouldn't be so bad, assuming I can keep my knowledge and experiences; I passed for mid-twenties by pretty early in my teen years, so it wouldn't even have much of an effect on my ability to express adult rights or make adult purchases.

Watching my loved ones die around me would suck, no question. But to some extent, that's bound to happen anyway, and I shouldn't automatically assume that having to watch others die is worse than my loved ones having to watch me die.

Then there's the matter that we're probably a generation or two away from major resource problems, at best. I don't think we're likely to beat climate change, and ten billion people combined with insufficient water to grow crops to feed them all is an ugly situation to have to witness, even if it can't harm you personally.

And eventually, in the extreme long term, it seems likely that you're going to end up floating in the vacuum of space, perpetually regenerating and experiencing brief moments of consciousness only to have your body struggle for air that isn't there and pass out, over and over again.

Or maybe your regeneration is so good that you never even lose consciousness, but merely float in space for eons. Hello, crazy train.

And yet, it's still tempting. I think if I could choose to live for centuries, or even millenia, in such a condition, I would. But until (or, powers forbid, beyond) the heat death of the universe...? I think I'd have to say no thanks.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

Curse, cause living forever means succumbing to boredom and insanity.

All my ambitions, goals, principles and good things in life are formed around the fact that everything dies sooner or later. As horrific as death is, it gives life meaning.

 

[the December King]

I don't know about blessing or curse. The Highlander pops to mind, and Queen's "Who Wants to Live Forever" - beautiful song- and though I'd be devastated at watching my family grow old without me, I would never leave them, either. I'd always be near my blood, and after some time, I'd like to think that I'd try... I'd try everything.

All disciplines, all arts, all skills, all recreations, all jobs, all sports... I might not be good at any of them- depending on how my immortality and cellular regeneration works, my body might literally be unable to adapt to new stresses or specializations, sort of like Anne Rice's vampires- but I'd give each a whirl anyways, like in Groundhog Day.

I'd like to tell you that I would also cunningly prepare for eventual attention via purchased identities, stashed passports like in Bourne films, a lot of moving, and safe houses, but I really don't have it all figured out. Not all that smart anyways, really.

 

[Evil Moo]

It would probably be quite liberating to not have to worry about survival. That said I am already pretty jaded on life at roughly a quarter of the way through one lifetime. Multiple lifetimes feels like too much, never mind literal eternity.

I think I would easily lose my sanity after a few hundred years. I'd probably end up in a cave somewhere, mutilating myself, spreading my entrails across the walls, creating a hellish underground landscape. Perhaps I would be discovered by society and shipped off to some lab somewhere where they'll try to find out how I survive, which I would simply have to wait through for it to end.

Eventually the planet will cease to be and I will drift through space, increasing my celestial influence with my infinitely regenerating body parts, slowly forming a gruesome planet of my own dismembered flesh.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

No ...


I'd lose my corset piercings in my back. Whole point of life is how prettily you can configure your body. Well ... maybe not the whole point of living ... but I lose a fantastic amount of accessorizing capability with hyper regeneration. Think about it ... no tattoos, no piercings, no threading, and assuming that extended to body hair, gross. I'm assuming it wouldn't extend to hair on your scalp, but if it did, that's also boring. It would also make wearing heels even more annoying. Now if I could shut that off when I wanted to, then you're talking.

Frankly, a large section of life was about making this body something more reasonable to endure. Not live with it in perpetuity. So yeah, curse.

 

[Hero of Lime]

Nope, an extended life would be pretty awesome, but eternal life, that would be lame after a few thousand years, probably earlier.

Now, I would take the offer, if I could choose to turn off my eternal life, and either start aging rapidly, or just be given a short period of time till I finally just die. A week or month sounds fair, upon which my body would just stop, and I instantly die.

I would also be sure to know who this mysterious person offering me the choice is, and if there's a contract, to make sure I'm not forfeiting my soul or something.