If you had the choice to live forever, you wouldn't. amirite?

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 Anonymous 12 years ago

Yes but then you'd have to stay around and watch everything crash and burn. Zombie apocalypse possibly.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

For some reason, this post makes me feel sad.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I would never want to live forever. It would be torture.

by Anonymous 12 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 Anonymous 12 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 Anonymous 12 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 Anonymous 12 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 Anonymous 12 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 Anonymous 12 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 Anonymous 12 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 Anonymous 12 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 Anonymous 12 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 Anonymous 12 years ago

I'd want a controler on life. Like in 'Click'.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Does this mean you'd want to live life as Adam Sandler? I hope not.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Wait, I forget, why does the control spazz out?

by Anonymous 12 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 Anonymous 12 years ago

Yeah.. I'd also like to live for a really long time, but forever is way too long.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Four words. The story of Tithonus.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

What is this?

by Anonymous 12 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 Anonymous 12 years ago

Oh. Shiiiiiiiiiiit.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Moral of the story: Zeus is an ass.

by Anonymous 12 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 Anonymous 12 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 Anonymous 12 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.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This reminds me of Tuck Everlasting.

by Anonymous 12 years ago