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Who Wants to Live Forever?

Do you want to live forever?


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Lark

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If its an eternal youth deal then yes I would like to live forever, I would not want to be a zombi or vampire or anything like that.
 

ICUP

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Yes. I would take vampire right now if someone offered it.
I think that would be awesome.
 

Qlip

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The question hardly makes sense to me. I suppose I wouldn't mind the option to live forever, being that I could change my mind. But I can't begin to imagine what being immortal would be like, what kinds of things it would do to your outlook to how you interact with people, to your actions.

Anyway forever is also a ridiculous proposition. Can you imagine persisting after all the stars have become cold with entropy? What we're talking here is an arbitrarily large finite time, but finite none the less. If you can't get something out of your current finite time limit, what makes you think you'll do better with X more?
 

xisnotx

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I've thought about it for a long time, and I honestly have no clue what I'd do. I know what I think I'd do, but I also know I couldn't possibly know what I'd be thinking if actually given the choice. Think about it, if given the choice to live forever, would we not be in heaven? Or hell? The cyclic nature of "what now?" "this"..would be too much to bear.

Ideally, I would die, find a way to analyze life while dead, compare it to my situation, and find a way to "not be dead" if I so choose. But If, while dead, I couldn't be undead, would I not be in hell? or is that heaven?

ughh..this death/life thing kills me sometimes...
 

Resonance

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I already intend to live forever, so if you're offering it to me for free, I'd accept in a heartbeat! After examining the caveats, of course.
It must be disorienting/unsettling to constantly be "losing" old selves that, of changing so much that it's hard to maintain continuity.
I think one could get used to it. I'm only 24 and I already look at my 20-year-old self as a stranger. It's hard to come to terms with the whole 'no constant self' thing, but I think it's a lot more freeing and maybe even healthier. It's definitely more natural, at the very least.
 

Fluffywolf

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Basicly yes.

Ofcourse, if eventually the sun goes supernova and earth will be blown to pieces, I'd rather die instead of living in cold space unable to breath for all eternity. So there are limits as to how I want to live forever. But yes, I do want to live forever.
 

OrangeAppled

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Absolutely. There's so much to explore in the world, the universe. I couldn't give up the chance to explore infinity. Plus, you can always start over with a "new" life, and I love that idea. A phoenix rising from the ashes every time.

I suppose when I hear this question, I always frame it positively: everyone I love will live forever too, we'll be in a state of youthful adulthood & good health, there will be relative peace among people...utopia, basically :D. But even with the way the world is now, I'd still say yes.
 

kelric

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If I could live forever as a healthy, able-bodied, sound mind person who isn't being hunted down or persecuted, then sure! Why not?

:yes:

Perhaps I watched a little too much Highlander in the 90's, but definitely. Although I think I'd have wanted to start a couple thousand years back, I'd certainly not say no anytime.
 

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I would definitely do it if I had the option to kill myself whenever I wanted. Is that a dealbreaker?

Otherwise I'd have to think more about it, but I'd lean towards no in the scenario I'm imagining. Unless everyone lived forever. But that'd be really weird and the world/future would be pretty drastically different as a result. Especially if we're talking literally forever and not just "a really really really really long time".
 

Totenkindly

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I suppose when I hear this question, I always frame it positively: everyone I love will live forever too, we'll be in a state of youthful adulthood & good health, there will be relative peace among people...utopia, basically :D.

ha ha, you freakin' INFPs...! :) Of course that would be much more palatable.

Yeah, I always think the opposite -- a stark Alien-esque universe or a bittersweet Highlander one.
 

OrangeAppled

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ha ha, you freakin' INFPs...! :) Of course that would be much more palatable.

Yeah, I always think the opposite -- a stark Alien-esque universe or a bittersweet Highlander one.

The concept of forever has always fascinated me, because to me, it's the ultimate hope. Even it those stark, post-apocalyptic scenarios, I see hope in the infinite possibilities forever presents. There will always be time to try improve, innovate, & try again. And yes, this is very INFP thinking :D
 

miss fortune

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I've seen Death Becomes Her... and that does NOT look pretty :horor:

anyways, if I live forever how am I going to see if there really IS something after death? it's a new adventure! :holy:
 

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I'd like to live a really, really long time, like 1000 years or more if that was an option. This is assuming I'd be in fine health and I could opt out of life when I wanted to. But would I want to live forever? I'm not so sure, I think eventually I would die of boredom and outliving everyone else would seem kind of weird.
 

Mae

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I would definitely choose immortality, but I'd like to have the option to kill myself eventually, you know, like if the human race dies out in the next few hundred years and I'm just sitting there alone bored out of my mind. I'd also have to have a youthful body, of course. I wouldn't want to be old and crumbly forever.

I just don't think 60 or so years is enough time to do all I want to do.
 
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