[QUOTE=deathbringer_jo;24304932]it is possible for people born in 1960 to be eventually immortal. With the rise of nanobots cryogenesis. People can extend life for ever. Be succesful in life save some money and if your lucky you'll never die. (its already possible to go into cryogennesis and unfreeze when it is possible to be augmented to be immortal, only it costs $60.000). Good luck on your road to immortality.[/QUOTE]
The problem is that current stasis technology is crude, often kills people it's used upon (you have to sign a waiver which says you don't care if you die in the process), and is generally not as effective at preventing aging as one would think.
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I'd hate to be immortal. Probably get bored after the first 500,000 years after the whole different perception of time thing kicks in. Maybe I would figure out a way to get out into space.
Me too.
Dying = bad.
[QUOTE=Mister B;24305020]Me too.
Dying = bad.[/QUOTE]
Dying = good end to life.
Heaven and Hell both suck equally.
You might enjoy the extension on life for the first couple hundred years, maybe 1000, hell maybe even the first 1,000, 000 years but after a while its going to start sucking and it will NEVER end.
Fuck immortality, death is a great end to life.
[QUOTE=Sparkwire;24302576]I was born too soon.[/QUOTE]
I wish I would live to see the advances of technology in a 1000 years time,
too bad I was born in fuckin 1995
[QUOTE=superdinoman;24305107]Dying = good end to life.
Heaven and Hell both suck equally.
You might enjoy the extension on life for the first couple hundred years, maybe 1000, hell maybe even the first 1,000, 000 years but after a while its going to start sucking and it will NEVER end.
Fuck immortality, death is a great end to life.[/QUOTE]
Honestly, search your feelings: Are you completely comfortable with ceasing to exist? Just completely fizzling out?
[QUOTE=Destitide;24305168]Honestly, search your feelings: Are you completely comfortable with ceasing to exist? Just completely fizzling out?[/QUOTE]
Yes.
Why are you scared of this
I wish I could say the same.
[QUOTE=Destitide;24305168]Honestly, search your feelings: Are you completely comfortable with ceasing to exist? Just completely fizzling out?[/QUOTE]
A few years ago in my greedy teen years no, but as you get older you accept it and realize its the best thing to end life.
Why would you want to exist forever, its so horrible. A good book about eternal life is Tuck Everlasting, they drank from the fountain of youth and everyone they know dies, they have to move on, and they will ALWAYS exist.
The burden of life would become so great.
[QUOTE=Destitide;24305224]I wish I could say the same.[/QUOTE]
I'd rather not exist, but before I cease to exist I want to try some crazy drugs.
What will your ego do now :O
[QUOTE=superdinoman;24305245]A few years ago in my greedy teen years no, but as you get older you accept it and realize its the best thing to end life.
Why would you want to exist forever, its so horrible. A good book about eternal life is Tuck Everlasting, they drank from the fountain of youth and everyone they know dies, they have to move on, and they will ALWAYS exist.
The burden of life would become so great.[/QUOTE]
Isn't Tuck Everlasting mandatory reading for fourth graders? Honestly, it isn't a good precedent to judge whether or not immortality would be in one's best interest.
[QUOTE=Destitide;24304967]The problem is that current stasis technology is crude, often kills people it's used upon (you have to sign a waiver which says you don't care if you die in the process), and is generally not as effective at preventing aging as one would think.[/QUOTE]
still. Your best chance's are: save money, live your life healthy (minimal sun radiation, proper weight, not smoking, no use of alcohol). Think of it this way. People that are born 100 years ago are now 100 years old. well 100 years ago it was rare for people to age 60+. So we could expect that you will be at least 150 years old (if healthy). Judging you are around 20 technology still has 130 years to develop life extensive systems. I have hope in it
[QUOTE=Destitide;24305423]Isn't Tuck Everlasting mandatory reading for fourth graders? Honestly, it isn't a good precedent to judge whether or not immortality would be in one's best interest.[/QUOTE]
The grade level of a book does not detract from the messages and meanings a person can derive from it.
Just wait for the singularity...
Before I die, I want to contribute some sort of discovery to the world. Anything just to help further what we know. I may not be there to see the crops reaped from it, but at least I know I did something :unsmith:
[QUOTE=superdinoman;24305440]The grade level of a book does not detract from the messages and meanings a person can derive from it.[/QUOTE]
I guess scholars shouldn't be looking to Homer's works, then, but rather to Flat Stanley and Why Being Different is Okay.
[QUOTE=Destitide;24305496]I guess scholars shouldn't be looking to Homer's works, then, but rather to Flat Stanley and Why Being Different is Okay.[/QUOTE]
Hey bro dont be dissing flat stanley.
It saddens me to know that humanity is nothing but a little dot in an infinity of stars and planets and whatnot. What saddens me even more is that we'll never get past our solar system in our lifetime, this is why I'm hoping robotics research will somehow explode in the next 30 years and we'll be able to start augmenting/placing ourselves into robots or something.
I mean, I can't even imagine what living 1000 years would be like...imagine living to see the fall of mankind, and the evolution of a new dominant species, you being the only one to tell of mankind's accomplishments or failures.
And what if...you lived till the end of the universe? (A heat death, I think people call it? I don't understand it too well.) If you were immortal, your presence would be infinite, but...nothing would be there. Just blackness. And you'd have to wait a seemingly infinite amount of time till a new Big Bang happens or something....and you'd live to tell about it.
Just imagine...living through that, forever. Wow. I can't imagine it, but reading H.P. Lovecraft always puts me in a philosophical mood.
I want to witness everything above, and although it seems selfish, it's just human nature to want to know about the unknown. Perhaps, we will achieve something close to that in our lifetime, or an elongated lifetime using augments or medicines or something.
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damn you now i feel sad
:emo:
I've read this entire thread a few times and I'm indifferent.
I don't understand what people are turning emo about here.
[QUOTE=Sonicfan574;24305792]I've read this entire thread a few times and I'm indifferent.
I don't understand what people are turning emo about here.[/QUOTE]
Life is meaningless man, theres just like no point to do anything ever, people should just listen to screaming in the microphone and sad depressing music about how pointless life is.
:[ dude I feel the same way.
Don't worry, you'll get your wish. Millions of years after your death, the earth will be destroyed by the sun exploding or some other equally destructive force. But those tiny little atoms that you were made of will be drifting across the universe in the endless expanse of space. Floating aimlessly in the vacuum, traveling distances that we can't even begin to comprehend. Nothing ever lasts forever, but in the same way, everything kind of DOES last forever.
That always gives me hope, I'll never be completely gone.
Rate dumb
[QUOTE=Sonicfan574;24305903]Who cares if we have no point to existence? There's things to do, places to see, fun to have. Just because we're not made to perform a certain task doesn't mean we can't enjoy it.
If you're so depressed about being alive then consult a suicide hotline. Maybe they can help you.
Also, the music you're referring to sucks ass.[/QUOTE]
If you couldnt tell by the way I was typing, I was being entirely sarcastic to the tone of this thread and how emo OP and everyone else is being.
[QUOTE=linksysruler;24305899]Don't worry, you'll get your wish. Millions of years after your death, the earth will be destroyed by the sun exploding or some other equally destructive force. But those tiny little atoms that you were made of will be drifting across the universe in the endless expanse of space. Floating aimlessly in the vacuum, traveling distances that we can't even begin to comprehend. Nothing ever lasts forever, but in the same way, everything kind of DOES last forever.
That always gives me hope, I'll never be completely gone.[/QUOTE]
But I won't be able to witness it for myself, all I want to do is be able to understand how little we understand of the universe...it's just so infinitely big.
This is why I am going into Astronomy! :v:
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