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But even living normally forever would be bad as one day you'd most likely be alone and then you'd just be waiting billions of years for the universe to collapse I guess, from there I'm not sure.[/QUOTE]
Exactly the point I tried making earlier. You are just going to watch the very planet die around you, and as one person there is no way for you to stop it.
and when the planet is no more, wouldn't you just float around in space.
I want to see where we go in millions of years
If there ever comes a point where we really have figured out everything, I wouldn't want to live anymore. At that point, I'd simulate my own universe.
immortality?
living on and on?
eventually your body woudl break down and you'd suffer eternally in agony since you couldn't die
I'll take eternal life, thanks, I live carefully, so I think I'd live for a good while, until America blows up the world or something
At the beginning of one's immortality, it may seem as though it is a blessing. Eternal youth, no dying. Awesome. Then you have to live through seeing your friends die, you mourn for a while, and maybe try to resolve yourself to not get close to people anymore, so you won't be hurt like that again. But, inevitably you come to crave human contact once more, and you make friends. And watch them die. And the cycle continues, until you eventually lose everything that made you human, because you eventually become an emotionally calloused psychopath. Then the govment catches you and pokes and prods you to try to learn your secret, yadda yadda yadda, eternal imprisonment. Suddenly you've lived having it as a curse for much longer than you had it as a blessing.
Edit: So yeah, definitely an overwhelming curse, rather than a blessing. Take for example the myth of Prometheus, in which he was placed in an inescapable situation, as has been mentioned in this thread before, and forced to live through it day by day.
[QUOTE=DepDirkson;42308204]At the beginning of one's immortality, it may seem as though it is a blessing. Eternal youth, no dying. Awesome. Then you have to live through seeing your friends die, you mourn for a while, and maybe try to resolve yourself to not get close to people anymore, so you won't be hurt like that again. But, inevitably you come to crave human contact once more, and you make friends. And watch them die. And the cycle continues, until you eventually lose everything that made you human, because you eventually become an emotionally calloused psychopath. Then the govment catches you and pokes and prods you to try to learn your secret, yadda yadda yadda, eternal imprisonment. Suddenly you've lived having it as a curse for much longer than you had it as a blessing.
Edit: So yeah, definitely an overwhelming curse, rather than a blessing. Take for example the myth of Prometheus, in which he was placed in an inescapable situation, as has been mentioned in this thread before, and forced to live through it day by day.[/QUOTE]
You're basing this off of an exclusive thing. If human beings in general were to overcome aging, your issue becomes a non-issue. Even aside from that, I'd want to keep living as long as I could. I want to see mankind succeed in its potential. Given the immortality mentioned in the OP, I'd probably use my ability to help shape the future.
[QUOTE=Grimhound;42319759]You're basing this off of an exclusive thing. If human beings in general were to overcome aging, your issue becomes a non-issue. Even aside from that, I'd want to keep living as long as I could. I want to see mankind succeed in its potential. Given the immortality mentioned in the OP, I'd probably use my ability to help shape the future.[/QUOTE]
Perhaps, however the way it is worded in the OP, it seems to be exclusive. Although if it was to be a human-wide thing, a whole new set of issues arise. Overpopulation and all of the side effects that would be caused by it, for example.
Edit: Dying from natural causes is how nature sorts shit out. Sure, we as a race could advance quicker with issues like disease and hunger no longer major problems, but our growth rate would become exponential without people dying.
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