Poll: You will live forever

[BeerTent]

Can I still lose weight? If not, can I like, take a raincheck for a work out montage?[...]

Saelune, asking the real questions around here. (S)He's[footnote]With an avatar like that, is it safe to assume female?[/footnote] going places.

To be on topic, however, I'm looking at the other side of things.

Regeneration? Keeping my form? So much money is spent on things like dental work, food, shelter, cans of air. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiabeNR_q0U] It could cut my outbound budget in half. I could pay off my loans and my car in mere years, instead of decades, and then build a stockpile of immeasurable amount of monies. With my current career path, I could become a superhero. Would I still need Glasses?

Even with that in mind, living forever, as Saelune mentioned, I'd be able to see everything. See the world, see interesting people, become nomadic for years going across Africa, Europe, Asia. Learn languages, meet interesting people, learn infinite skills, woo infinite people until the inevitable heat-death of the planet...

So, funny story, I'm transgendered. (Not offended or anything, I genuinely laughed)

Also glad others see the wonder of immortality. Who knows what the future holds, and I want in dammit.

Yaay! Trans are always awesome people!

I'm also looking into the other aspects of this immortality too. Can't feel pain? Why not just jump off a boat, and boom. Coral Reef. If you regenerate, than it could mean that you don't need to go to the bathroom. Eat, Drink, breathe. All it takes is a tough-ass waterproof flashlight and a boat, and boom. You could be somewhere no man has ever been before. Or even conversely, go to space when people are plenty capable. When you get tired of exploring Earth, the possibilities are endless. I'm a creative sort, so I've thought a lot about this. How would you tell your parents? Friends? Co-workers? How would you realize it's all true? Man, I could write a book or something.

Anything can be done, in enough time. And immortality grants infinite amounts of it.

 

[Saelune]

Can I still lose weight? If not, can I like, take a raincheck for a work out montage?[...]

Saelune, asking the real questions around here. (S)He's[footnote]With an avatar like that, is it safe to assume female?[/footnote] going places.

To be on topic, however, I'm looking at the other side of things.

Regeneration? Keeping my form? So much money is spent on things like dental work, food, shelter, cans of air. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiabeNR_q0U] It could cut my outbound budget in half. I could pay off my loans and my car in mere years, instead of decades, and then build a stockpile of immeasurable amount of monies. With my current career path, I could become a superhero. Would I still need Glasses?

Even with that in mind, living forever, as Saelune mentioned, I'd be able to see everything. See the world, see interesting people, become nomadic for years going across Africa, Europe, Asia. Learn languages, meet interesting people, learn infinite skills, woo infinite people until the inevitable heat-death of the planet...

So, funny story, I'm transgendered. (Not offended or anything, I genuinely laughed)

Also glad others see the wonder of immortality. Who knows what the future holds, and I want in dammit.

Yaay! Trans are always awesome people!

I'm also looking into the other aspects of this immortality too. Can't feel pain? Why not just jump off a boat, and boom. Coral Reef. If you regenerate, than it could mean that you don't need to go to the bathroom. Eat, Drink, breathe. All it takes is a tough-ass waterproof flashlight and a boat, and boom. You could be somewhere no man has ever been before. Or even conversely, go to space when people are plenty capable. When you get tired of exploring Earth, the possibilities are endless. I'm a creative sort, so I've thought a lot about this. How would you tell your parents? Friends? Co-workers? How would you realize it's all true? Man, I could write a book or something.

Anything can be done, in enough time. And immortality grants infinite amounts of it.

I'm hopeful for a Mass Effect/Star Trek situation where humanity does eventually become part of some currently unknown intergalactic civilization, and then its off exploring the galaxy with aliens!

 

[Wrex Brogan]

Awww dammit, does it have to be how I am now? I'm still fat and unfit, can you come back in like... 6 months when I've managed to shed a few kilos?

Anyway, total curse. A painfully ironic one at that given I've tried to off myself in the past. Hell, I'd probably dedicate my life to ruining the Outsiders shit because of it. What a ****.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

Curse.

Oh sure, it's fun now. Sure it's not bad later when I can experience all of human gaming history and maybe have an impact on ACTUAL history having lived through many eras.

But what happens when the world eventually dies? What happens if the planet eventually is devoid of all life and I'm alone in a post-apocalypse? What happens if the planet is utterly destroyed at some point and I'm just floating endlessly in space forever?

...Death is scary as all fuck, but living forever is just way scarier because it means you will at some point truly be forever alone.

 

[HybridChangeling]

It would be a blessing, not for the person who is immortal in any measure but for humanity. Getting anybody to be immortal means you have a person who will never die or succumb to anything. Someone like that could take 30 years to learn all they need, and take hundreds of years to cure every disease. No lost notes or losing progress due to disease. Oh and to have someone as a living fossil record from another decade, being able to live through history and being a living witness to it. No more postulating ideas in an office, this guy survived it all and can tell you in detail. And if things go truly all wrong, you have someone who could rebuild from knowledge.

As for me personally, I think it would lie somewhere in between. On one hand I would remain at the peak of my aging forever and wouldn't have to deal with all the fear. On the other hand I would have to deal with being truly alone, and at the end dealing with true nothingness. That is truly terrifying.

 

[springheeljack]

Honestly yeah I probably would take it even though it would probably really start sucking a thousand years from now
A part of me just wants to know what will happen to humanity by and large. Will we ever perfect space travel or will we just blow ourselves up in some war or will we just slowly die out? What if anything will come after we are gone?

You will also get to personally see your generations grow for better or worse which would be a cool thing.

 

[Jadak]

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?

Another? If that was a thing, sure.

Otherwise, eh, forever is a long time. I'm be up for a couple extra millennia, but too many opportunities to get completely fucked with infinite suffering with immortality. One good accident and I'm buried in a landfill, stranded in an ocean, lost in space, etc...

And yeah, falling behind the evolutionary curve would kind of suck, even more so if my healing prevents cybernetic enhancements.

If it's simply the option between a normal life and living forever in my current state without the option to ever die, pass.

 

[Orga777]

So, complete and total awfulness in place of death? Glad I can still be alive till the inevitable end of the universe.... Just floating around in nothingness endlessly suffocating. Can't even say till the end of time since you will still be alive through that, too. Sounds fun! Rather just die, really. :/

It would suck in the short term, too.