Rejuvenation

[Karma168]

In the Commonwealth Saga novels by Peter Hamilton people have the option to rejuvenate their bodies back to their early twenties, allowing them to another life. this process can be repeated over and over; effectively making the person immortal.

Memory crystals (sort of like back up storage) and clone bodies can also be used to ensure that nobody dies a permanent death. memories can be edited at each rejuvenation, allowing you to forget bad memories if you wish.

Pros:

1. You effectively live for ever
2. can do anything (legal) you want, no threat of permanent death
3. you can amass a fortune over the years
4. you can get married/raise a family as many time as you want
5. you have several lifetimes worth of experience and confidence


Cons:

1. rejuvenation is incredibly painful, you spend 15+ months in agony as your body undergoes the treatment. And cloning is even worse.
2. life may become routine/boring as you have done everything you can think of
3. love becomes temporary, marriages usually only last a few decades as people get bored and move on


So, would you live forever at a slower pace? or live one lifetime in the fast lane?

Me, I'd probably live a few lifetimes, see how things progress around me. Though I would have to completely change my life at each rejuvenation; new job, new home, etc. I would hope love would be permanent though.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Living forever would get boring.

 

[FalloutJack]

I have no reason to stop living. I'm pretty sure I can find something to amuse myself in the growing years, or even Rip Van Winkle myself a while and see what happens a few decades from now. Could be fun.

 

[rickvhoeij]

So I can live forever, remove memories that I want and keep the ones I wanted ... I see a simple solution here to prevent it to be boring.

Once in every, let's say, 80 years forget everything except skill and "lessons learned" and start a new live. Experience everything as it were the first time and still be very good at everything you do.

That would be my option

 

[Cheesus333]

I think my 10 year old sister (completely of her own thought, I might add, it blew our minds wide open) said it best:

"The world needs room for all the new people."

 

[rickvhoeij]

I think my 10 year old sister (completely of her own thought, I might add, it blew our minds wide open) said it best:

"The world needs room for all the new people."

Damn new people, get of my lawn!!!

 

[HellspawnCandy]

Living forever would get boring.

Maybe for a little bit, time is slow but progress is fast. That is unless you really hate space.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Living forever would get boring.

Maybe for a little bit, time is slow but progress is fast. That is unless you really hate space.

The concern would be memory.
As you age, one second remains standardized but compared to your memory and life experience, perception of a second changes because it becomes a comparatively smaller and smaller portion of time compared to the length of time your experience has gathered as you age.

(Quasi-statistically on a subconscious level)If you live to be 25, your brain understands that 1 second is 1:790,000,000th of your previous life experience. If you live to be 80, your brain understands that 1 second is 1:2,525,000,000th of your previous life experience. And as you get older, this value continues to shrink. If you live to be 400, 1 second in reference to how old you've lived is so small, you are no longer capable of comprehending it. Likewise the duration of experiences vs. time to experience them shrinks. The length of time that things you enjoy would have to increase relative to your perception, in order to take any satisfaction in them, or else their duration would be so short that the act becomes meaningless and not understandable, like breathing or blinking.
A life like that would be horrible before long.

 

[lee1287]

Boring? Are you people stupid? You could do EVERYTHINg in the world. I Want to stay alive just too see what kind of Technology we make. Who wouldnt want too?

EDIT; Also, space travel? Why dont you people want to stay alive so you can see how ourr ace Expands.

Also, when we die, i hope we can just watch the world.