If you could live forever would you really want to?

Question

personally i wouldn't want to but what do you think?

Answer 1

Faith in immortality was born of the greed of unsatisfied people who make unwise use of the time that nature has allotted us. But the wise person finds a life span sufficient to complete the full circle of attainable pleasures, and when the time of death comes, leaves the table satisfied, freeing a place for other guests. For the wise person, one human life is sufficient, and a stupid person will not know what to do with eternity.

Epicurus (341-270 BCE)

Answer 2

No, we're only here for a certain amount of time. The world gets more violent and lonely and scary and I don't wanna stay here forever.

Answer 3

nah, it would suck to see ur great-great-great-great-great granddaughter die.....hahaha, well, it would also suck if the sun blew up and u were still living......

Answer 4

Dancing on the graves of my enemies....

...just never gets old.

Answer 5

Sleep

Answer 6

I'll pass.  I've seen one too many vampire movies, and vampires are never happy with their immortality.  Without some kind of superpowers attached to the immortality, it would just be unceasing boredom.  People would find out about you and lock you away for eternity.  The 7-year itch would turn into the 7 millenia itch.  You'd be forced to watch as bellbottoms went in and out of fashion over and over again.  You'd have to sit back and watch people get fatter and lazier and lazier and fatter.  The intelligence quotient of the average person as technology increased would dwindle until people would not have knowledge of tieing their own shoes.  Robots would overtake the planet.  Aliens would invade.  

Well, what I mean to say is...I'd die of boredom.

Answer 7

After the first millenia, you'd want to commit suicide from the shear boredom...

Answer 8

Yes and we already are, death is just a trancendance to a different reality you will live in after this one.  You should not fear eternity because drastic changes in your life sometimes is what makes it worth while and never boring.

Answer 9

No way men because I am gonna to resume my godly position. hee hee.

Answer 10

No, I wouldn't want to live forever not only because I don't want to but also because I would witness a lot of people that I would know dying.

For instance if I had children and I had longevity and they did not, I would one day have to witness them die, and my grand children, great grand children, great great grand children, etc.

It would be a never ending cycle of heartbreak.

Answer 11

There are days when I feel like I would like to live to 1,000 years old, and then there are days when I am really depressed and I don't want one more day on this earth.  I suppose that if I could live forever with a young body (and little to no sickness) I would have to say yes.  I also guess that after a few hundred years I would be tempted to kill myself somehow, as I may be tired of life.  A good question, only one that is not possible (yet)!

Answer 12

To know that one is going to live forever is the greatest disservice one can do to one's life...... because life would then lose all its perceived value..... because time would lose its significance..... there would never be anything must and everything can be postponed. More importantly, we are not geared to deal with the infinite because our basic cognizance itself is dependent of finite limits that draw the boundaries so as to enable us define anything...... meaning for us arises from our ability to define...... infinite life would be undefinable and thus turn out to be absolutely meaningless...... my favorite quote is..... inevitability of death defines life.

Answer 13

Absolutely. I would sacrifice ever being able to have a relationship with another person. Think about all the things you could accomplish... cure diseases, stop war and famine. It would be a great responsibility, but I would be willing to do it for mankind.

Answer 14

it depends on your life for me

Answer 15

No, I hate commercials.

Answer 16

Honestly no, the idea of eternal life actually frightens me more than the idea of death. Preferably I would like to live my life than just cease to exist, but seeing as that is the only thing science actually proves can't happen I am kinda screwed (matter cannot be destroyed completely or cease to exist). Maybe if I am lucky reincarnation is what happens, living over and over again but in different forms and such sounds neat. :)

Answer 17

Haven't you seen the Highlander? MacLeod was immortal and had to watch everyone he cared about die before him. The whole time they were aging he was looking about 35. That would kinda suck to be the only one that couldn't die even if he wanted to.

Then there is Michael from Lost. He did bad things and tried to put an end to it, but nope! He couldn't die either. How sad.

Of course, Michael was freed from that fate eventually. And MacLeod could always take his own head. :D

Right now, you're faced with a bunch of childish adults that scheme and take advantage of each other and assault one another. I suppose that's fine to deal with that for a few decades, but to have to be forced to live in that for eternity...i don't think so. The only way I'd go for that is if I had super powers. On the one hand I could rule the people, on the other I could stroll down the streets like a normal person--kinda like I had a disguise on so no one could recognize me.

I suppose if that could happen I wouldn't mind living forever. But that won't happen, so ditch that idea. The only thing that would make this place worth living in is if it was reformed and people started acting like human beings, and caring for each other. The only way that'll happen is if God steps in and does something about it. When that happens, I'll be more than happy to live forever here.

Answer 18

diiiiiiieeeeeee

Answer 19

It would seem fun from my point of view now, and if I were given the option now, and having only a few minutes to decide, I'd probably do it. However, given enough time to think about it, I would probably choose against it.