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If you had the choice to live forever, you wouldn't. amirite?
by Anonymous12 years ago
Maybe if my significant other could live forever with me. But otherwise no, I wouldn't want to go through life and watch everyone I love die.
by Anonymous12 years ago
Yes but then you'd have to stay around and watch everything crash and burn. Zombie apocalypse possibly.
by Anonymous12 years ago
For some reason, this post makes me feel sad.
by Anonymous12 years ago
I would never want to live forever. It would be torture.
by Anonymous12 years ago
Cracked had an article about this:
http://www.cracked.com/article_18708_5-reasons-immortality-would-be-worse-than-death.html
Reasons why it would suck:
#5. Evolution Will Turn You Into a Freak
#4. Nobody Can Ever Find Out
#3. You're Still Getting Older (Mentally)
#2. Time Speeds Up Until You're Insane
#1. You'll Eventually Get Trapped Somewhere (Forever)
by Anonymous12 years ago
5. not necessarily, and not if there were others. humans aren't really evolving anymore because we're past the survival-of-the-fit-enough state and actually look out for each other. otherwise you'd just become like another animal and being an animal doesn't necessarily suck
4. kind of an exaggeration
3. not a bad thing, that doesn't imply you're deteriorating
2. not true, that's just in your head
1. VERY not true. By the same logic that you'll inevitably get trapped somewhere, you'll inevitably get rescued at some point.
by Anonymous12 years ago
Well, for number one, if like, an incredibly long time, the sun will eventually expand and engulf the earth, or a meteor will hit it, and eventually you could be stuck in a star, or floating aimlessly through space for an eternity.
by Anonymous12 years ago
If nobody had found a good method of space travel and an alternate place to live... You still wouldn't float aimlessly for eternity, you would eventually find a home. That is, until all the stars in the universe have collapsed. But that would mean you would collapse into a black hole as well, so the laws of physics pretty much prevent you from living beyond that point anyways.
by Anonymous12 years ago
They claims weren't specifically mine, although I do think they're very probable. Did you read the article, it explains them in depth.
by Anonymous12 years ago
Yeah, I did, but I think they're ignoring some stuff (and they're assuming that you're the only one who gets to live forever, which isn't something you have to assume).
by Anonymous12 years ago
I actually thought about, and you're right - it is making a lot of asumptions, like that you're going to be the only one living forever - which, even when you consider how unlikely being immortal is, it's even more unlikely only one person would be affected.
And I guess "immortal" means you're not going to get old physically or mentally.
Dunno much about the time thing either, but I reckon it would effect a person negatively, in regards to interacting with other humans when they've done it for thousands of years.
by Anonymous12 years ago
I don't see why people could never find out. If you're going to live forever anyways, what could they do to you?
by Anonymous12 years ago
Yeah, that's something to think about.
I think the main thing wouldn't be "you'd be hunted forever" because those people and their research would eventually die, but that you'd be subjected to medical testing for quite a long time. But, as duckshirt says, they're assuming that you're the only immortal, as opposed to a whole town being exposed to radiation being immortal or something.
by Anonymous12 years ago
I'd want a controler on life. Like in 'Click'.
by Anonymous12 years ago
Does this mean you'd want to live life as Adam Sandler? I hope not.
by Anonymous12 years ago
Wait, I forget, why does the control spazz out?
by Anonymous12 years ago
I don't really wanna ACTUALLY live for ever. but a thousand years would be nice. I'd love to see how technology develops and whether mankind destroys itself by then.
by Anonymous12 years ago
Yeah.. I'd also like to live for a really long time, but forever is way too long.
by Anonymous12 years ago
Four words. The story of Tithonus.
by Anonymous12 years ago
What is this?
by Anonymous12 years ago
A Greek God asks Zeus to make her mortal lover immortal, but forgot to ask for eternal youth. The guy can't die, but he gets so old his body starts to break down.
by Anonymous12 years ago
Oh. Shiiiiiiiiiiit.
by Anonymous12 years ago
Moral of the story: Zeus is an ass.
by Anonymous12 years ago
"Everlasting life? I imagine it would be kind of lonely. Well, maybe if you had someone to share it with. Someone you loved. Then it might be different."
by Anonymous12 years ago
It depends on if I'd have to age or age to about 30 and stay there. Because then I would have been out of college, and that's the perfect age because I won't get back pains and have to use a walker. O.o ;p
by Anonymous12 years ago
Eternal youth and life until the world ends. And the only way you can die is if you kill yourself. That doesn't sound too bad.
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