Forever?

Theres a show about a guy who lives forever thats coming on.
Question(s)....would you want to live forever and why?
If so what age do you want to stay at and why?
If not why wouldnt you want to live forever?

 

Death gives meaning to life. Death gives balance to life. We have to die as part of a cycle, whether it's religion or science. The earth could not sustain immortality. With that said, there's a big part of me that would want to live a long time, but maybe not forever, maybe like 500yrs. And if I could choose my age, I would say 26-27. I would be over eighteen for driving and voting privileges, I would be over 21 for legal drinking and a full adult, I would be over 25 for lower cat insurance and renting cars with no stipulations, I would be in my prime, still in my twenties, but close enough to my thirties to engage youngins and the older folks.

 

Immortality? Yes, please. Think of all the knowledge one could attain. The experiences a person could have. Almost any career one wanted, he or she could have. Imagine always having the option to simply "start over."

35 would be the age I'd want to be set at. Young enough to be seen as vital. Yet, old enough to be taken seriously.

 

Now comes the question that always seems to be asked in both literature and film when it comes to the topic of being immortal : What does one do with multiple lifetimes of knowledge & experiences? Simply hoard the knowledge & experiences for self for ones own benefit or attempt in some way to pass on this accumulated knowledge & experience to better the human race?

 

Forever? Only if I could find plenty of other planets with other people on them. After about 1000 years on earth I'm sure to get bored with it. That's enough time to learn and experience everything that could possibly interest me multiple times, write a book about it, and share discoveries with the world. Thats more than enough time to do things i never even planned like swim from cuba to miami. After multiple generations of close friends and family dying it would be time to move on. Anyway I think 30 would be the perfect age to experience immortality, because at that point you know yourself and understand your abilities well enough to benefit from each additional ounce of knowledge. I would probably want to switch planets every 200 years.

 

No immortality or 1,000 year lifespans, it would be an excuse for people to laze around and not take care of business. The planet would also crowd up with people who'd been around for centuries sharing a finite space with newborns.

Make the most of your 70 years and die.

 

Immortality, despite all that one will see and learn through the years, is a lonely proposition. During that time, family and friends will no longer be alive and that person is all alone. That person will live through the best of times and the worst of times. But still alone. Death would be a much needed remedy for this person. Death would set this person free.

 

Good question. I'd try to help where I could. Providing time doesn't make me too cynical. Think about how optimistic you were when you were young. Then life happened and you got to see how effed up people can be. How would an eternity of experiencing human nature affect your willingness to lend a hand?

As far sharing accumulated knowledge and experience, don't we already have something that does that now; the internet? Nothing is ever forgotten.

BTW, are we defining immortal as just never getting old. Or, are we saying getting never aging, never getting sick and never getting hurt. Say, you burn yourself real bad, do you heal from that or do you live for eternity burnt up?

 

Then comes the question of whether or not to withdraw from the rest of the world totally or become a total ass and use what you know to force your will upon others to get them to change for what you have observed over lifetimes would be their betterment?




As far as sharing, you always have to keep an eye out for those who choose to ignore or discredit any information. But "yes" as long as there are those willing to listen, learn and accept any knowledge shared it will never be forgotten.

 

I would say yes to all of that. You are invulnerable to any physical harm or disease like Dorian Gray, Wolverine or even Star Trek: The Next Generation's Q(although Q has god-like powers, he is susceptible to feeling lonely, so his remedy is to play with life forms, but sometimes Q plays rough). The best examples are Louis LeStat from Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire. LeStat embraced his immortality while Louis matured from it(Louis practices greater restraint than LeStat). However, even LeStat complains that he is younger, stronger and more appealing to the eyes of men and women because he becomes a rock star. His main job is to protect his bandmates from other immortals and it is difficult.

 

Would I be the only immortal?
If not then sure I'd like to live "forever"
I'd resign myself to be an agent of harmony and balance. The human race needs such agents if we and other life on the planet are to survive.

 

Hmmm, 70-80 years, maybe 90 if I'm heathy and can still fuction on my own. I don't want to be a burden to family and society.

 

You are the only person that can live in this manner

 

Damn that would suck. I guess I would try to be an agent of positive change learn all I can and apply it the best way I can.

 

I would say yes to planet switching either way, just another stipulation of the question or logic. It would take you a long time, but if you could propel yourself into space, you'd just float to the next planet. You're immortal, you wouldn't die. The mere mention of immortality has to include some type of regenerative ability or invincibility to begin with, because you wouldn't be immortal if you got burned so bad that an infection killed you or pieces of you fell off.

 

I think he meant ageless because even vampires die and they're considered immortal

 

:smt045Yea, I would say ageless because the mere def of immortal means your not dying.

 

I agree that there has to be some regenerative ability, but for me to actually want to live forever I would need to know that I could actually find plenty of other planets with people on them. I don't want to be the only person on a planet or in a situation where each populated planet is 300 million light years away from the previous one i found. (Good luck finding that) Don't want to spend that much time floating and not know for sure that the planet I'm trying to reach is even worth it.

 

How about this lets add on...ageless but can die at age 100 but you look a different age.

Or lets say immortal and live forever.