It depends what you mean by life forever. Do you mean live forever in this world? Or does live forever also include living on in a life after this one somewhere else? An before I made a decision on the matter, I'd have to know if living forever meant being eternally youthful, because I certainly wouldn't want to live forever looking like an old hag.
Ok say it was earth and it was like highlander. Any of you ever see highlander? It's like that.Highlander, a movie.
I haven't seen highlander.
Highlander, he lives forever at like 30 years old. In his 30's and doesnt get older physically in demise just gets older and stays in the same health.
Not at all. I already dislke the world and all of it's HATE.
Earth is far too unstable an uninteresting for me to want to live here forever. Before I made a decision to stay on earth, I'd have to know what Earth's future was. An if my freinds, family, an pets, could live there with me forever. If there was an afterlife that I could go to instead, that was better, I'd choose that. Although if there was no life after death, then I'd opt to stay on Earth. As long as my family, etc, could stay with me.
Let's look at it this way, would you rather be fated to live until the end of the world, sharing in every single pain and injustice brought to the world, for the sake of being able to say "Ohh, I remember when it was like that," doomed to forget, or be forgotten as you go throughout the remainder of time, doing only for the sake of doing, perhaps fighting some losing battle, and to watch your loved ones leave you, not knowing when you will reunite?
Or would you rather be tied to the world for a short time, to have a lasting, even if unnamed impact on, directly or indirectly throughout the years? To be another one of the crowd, whose voice is the loudest, and to have people cry because they have lost something dear to them, namely you. Maybe there's hope that there's some afterlife after all.
I find it ironic; those who get to live on forever want to be mortal, to not have the responsibility entitled to them any longer. And those who know they will reach an end get greedy and want to live on, even if it means sullying their accomplishments.
I'd rather live forever.
I'd have to watch everyone I know die. Watch the world descend into more and more turmoil. I'd rather use the time given to me, and make use of it. Life would get boring afterwards.
Holy crap, man. o_OOriginally Posted by Necronopticous
I would not want to live forever, no.
I wouldn't want to live forever. I don't think I would be able to keep my sanity watching all of my loved ones dying, wave after wave. Also, wouldn't your body be pretty knakcered by the time you reach old age in a normal lifetime. So living with a frail body for centuries is a no.
I wouldn't necessarily want to live forever, but I do want to - and I intend to - live until there's nothing left for me in this existence, which could be construed as forever.
As usual, most opinions in this presume it is possible only in a static environment, and that nobody else will live forever. In reality, we're going to have the biotech to extend our lifespans immensely (To at least hundreds, likely thousands, of years), likely by the end of the 20s, and the nanotech to live forever, likely by the end of the 30s or the mid 40s. We will all be able to live forever, as long as we make it to the halfway mark of this century, barring some vast planetary catastrophe.
Additionally to this, if you lived forever, the lack of FTL travel would be trivial. You could get into a modern spacecraft and travel at very low speeds to other stars, worlds, even galaxies. Because, what's a thousands, or a million years, to someone who lives forever? If we have no way to go around c in pure physical terms, we'll go around it by outlasting it.
I'd want to live for a long time, but not forever.
It'd be seriously cool to live forever.... you would get to do everything and see everything. And as for "once youve seen and done everything... then what?" well doing things the second time is still fun. And a third and forth time. You would have the oppertunity to meet people, be friends with people and love people who you would never get the chance to meet, befriend or love if you were mortal.
The statement "Once you've seen and done everything, then what?" also rests on the presumption that nothing new will ever happen, which seems to be the basis for most of the rejections of immortality.
The world changes. And I probably own more entertainment media than I could actually digest in one lifetime already. More is being produced hourly. Several thousand years of the stuff already exists.
What would life be if you didn't die? What would you live for? The whole point of life (In my opinion) is to show Jesus, our lord, that we are worthy of going to heaven, and we have to prove that through out our cycle, I believe.
Please don't start a religious quarrel because of that. If you don't believe, don't comment, please.
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