Thread: What would you choose?

EDIT: before i posted this he didnt say 1000 years, so this post is for if he said forever

If when you say yes, you have no choice, then no, i would not.

As i said in another thread. Living Forever would be the worst possible thing that could ever happen ever. Because after about 10000 years, you would get bored. And soon, you would get border and border, but you could never ever die, so it gets worse and worse until you just become basically living flesh with no feelings, emotions or thoughts.

And yet, you still live, and it becomes 10000000000000 years and 1000000000000000000000000000000000 years, but there you are, living.....

Assuming you get health with that bargain, I would choose to live. With endless life a person could accumulate a lot of resources. With money and no time limit, you could master all sorts of skills and trades, you could travel. You could invest part of your life in charity work (like the Peace Corps or something). The possibilities could be endless. I don't see how it would be possible to ever get bored.

That's also assuming the earth never dies lol. If it blew up or something, would you still be alive as molecules, floating around as space dust, thinking and feeling as a trillion different specks? Or would it be safe to assume that if the planet died (and there didn't exist ports on other planets) that you would cease to exist?
If I ever became crazy insane, I could perfect a way to destroy the world and thus end my life

Originally Posted by Zhaylin

I could perfect a way to destroy the world and thus end my life

No. You can't die.

Say you live a thousand years.

ok, i would say yes

Thousand years sure, bad thing about that though is your family and friends would die, when you still had your normal appearance and youth.

If I survived a planetary extinction event as thinking and feeling space dust, then I would say "no".
If I was to be completely free of thought and feeling, though, I would still want to live forever.

This depends on so many factors. i suppose I would mostly say no though.

If I stayed youthful and healthy, yes.

If I would live for a thousand years, I'd probably say yes. If I were to live forever, I'd definitely say no.

I just don't feel that much for being alive after, for example, the Sun reaches the end of its life cycle. That means I would be the only remaining human on Earth (assuming the Sun didn't blow it up). I would be the loneliest organism in the universe.

A thousand years on the other hand sounds a lot better. But as Mancon said, only if my body doesn't age. Otherwise I'd be reduced to dust before I've even reached 200.

Nope.

Yes I want to live forever. Anybody who doesn't is in some small way suicidal.

Yes, I would. I don't think boredom would build up. Even after 10000 years there would still be new things to try, new ways to live. Losing loved ones would be tragic, and it was the only thing that made me consider that maybe I wouldn't want to live forever. But, in reality, losing someone would only keep you demobilized for a few months, years or decades, depending on how attached you were to the person. You might keep the scars and memories of the person for hundreds or thousands of years, or longer, but you would be able to live and be happy again eventually, and in the end, the life gained would be worth the loss. You would meet new people, form new bonds and loves with amazing people, who you never would have met in a normal life. Think about how many PhD's you could get, how much you could learn, and how much you could help humanity with the combined knowledge.

... until the earth is gone and the universe collapses (or whatever it does).

What then? Hmmmmm?

Questions like this are just too abstract to give an answer to. Would there be other immortals? Would you live forever no matter what, like if the earth expired and there was no food or air? If so, HOW? Magic? And if you're able to do such amazing things, what other amazing things can you do? If the universe passes through a wormhole and begins a new Big Bang to recreate itself, do you go with it or remain floating forever in an empty void? Do you still have to pee?

If you REALLY picked life you'd regret your choice immediately. (In this imaginary situation)

Everyone is so unique, pros and cons, and although we grow and change over time because of genes it's only so much. I think I'd get tired of me after a while. Unless you could could completely morph over time without being permanently rooted in the past I think I'd rather die and be one with the creative force of new lives.

If your forever is only 1000 years, sure I could take that. If you mean "eternity" as we accept it, then no. But well, I would probably turn completely insane after millenia, so it wouldn't bother me that much. If the offer was instead that I would be otherwise immortal except that I could kill myself then, there is no problem.

Imagine that all consuming loneliness. All your friends or anyone you could ever attach yourself into will wither and die away. Your immortality would ultimatetly shape you into something that is not human.

No.

Not this life. no

No way, you'd eventually lose all your loved ones and friends.

Not if they are also eternal

I would, because i would keep making new friends. And I could be by mahself too if it came to that. I just love life

No, it really isn't worth the trouble. At the end you'll just be going mad, wandering around finding a way to die. Questioning everything in existence. And you'll probably get locked up when you are 300 becuase you lived long enough already that you are now property of your goverment and dissapear of the face of the Earth. And then you'll get send to one man secret missions to who knows where for the rest of your remaining 700 years of life.

I'd like to be these people in this book I read, who are elves. They live forever, but can die of mortal wounds or sickness like any other human.