Immortality: is it good?

Question

Hi there; I read on a science magazine that, in the future, we will probably reach immortality by combining our biologic parts to mechanical ones or transferring our mind to a fully electro-mechanical structure...

Is that a good thing?

Answer 1

in my opinion, this is going to be a terrible mistake. Death makes life valuable. And would you really want Osama and others to be alive forever?  

Answer 2

i'd get bored living on earth that long really

Answer 3

I don't think it will be good, If everyone is immortal then that creates crowding problems, and if it was just me, I wouldn't want to watch all the people I love grow old and die, and i think after a couple hundred years I would just get extremely bored

Answer 4

If you think being a cyborg is good.

Answer 5

Isn't cessation of thought kind of a reward? Life is struggle, which is not to say it's not worth it, but still you work your entire life. Why prolong this? Do you have anything new to add to the world or is your mind unable to process the new things that with expanding technology were produced every day. I think death is there for a reason, why fight it? It's premature death we mourn, but when death comes to the very old it's often welcomed by that person and sometimes (sorry to say) by the community. It takes so many resources to keep us alive, why not give another life a chance to experience and grow. We like beginnings and endings. Death is just another part of life, and life becomes so much less without that possibility.

Answer 6

I have my doubts about it all.  Those mechanical parts do sound intriguing though as I have arthritis and could use a few oiled up joints!

Answer 7

We shouldn't play God. We all should die one day. that's a little said but it's going  to happen and we all live with it. If we were immortal there be over population and the world would be ruin with food crisis, short list of jobs, and pollution. And with the cyborg thing you have to be rich to do it. And while you live you're love ones who couldn't afford it will die and you be alone. Dying is a part of life we have to accept that.

Answer 8

Dear Diomedes,

                       We humans are immortal, because we have coined this word? We know the meaning of this word. Only an immortal can know what is immortal. A jeweler   can know of a True Gem!