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Who Wants to Live Forever?

Do you want to live forever?


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Edgar

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Only if I get to fight other immortals for the prize.
Otherwise it will get kind of boring after a few centuries.
 

Rasofy

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Not sure if I do want but if the option was given I'd take it. Why? Because I'm used to being alive and it is supposed to be better than ''being'' dead.
 

InvisibleJim

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Only if I get to fight other immortals for the prize.
Otherwise it will get kind of boring after a few centuries.

There's nothing like the mega-jizz.

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Agent Jelly

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I'm dipping into another types forum, my apologies!

I really would not want to live forever, I think it'd become very boring. Plus we get all nasty looking and our bodies fall apart with age. BUT if I was like a vampire and stayed in mint super condition, I may consider it. But I'd have to be a daywalker. I really like me some sunshine! This makes me think of the supernatural episode with the crazy scientist dude who had created immortality and looked really ugly and kept having to replace his body parts.
 

Mad Hatter

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A new and different life after death would be nice. But living the same life for all eternity sounds like torture.
 

Metamorphosis

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I would like to live forever. I don't see why it would get any more boring as it goes on. It certainly hasn't yet and there's much more out there to see and do and learn than I can possibly do in one lifetime. I would venture a guess that it would take a really fucking long time to learn everything there is to learn out there and know everyone there is to know.
 

Rasofy

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For the ones that answered a straight No:
If you were given that chance right now, would you decline?
In case the answer is still no, imagine you are old and almost dying. I know it is hard to assume the perspective, but would you still decline the opportunity and just die?
 

The Ü™

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I'd love to live forever in some form or another. Although maybe not in physical form.
 
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Anew Leaf

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there is no try, only doooo

I asked because the poll seemed wide open and then I read the OP and saw the part about IXTP. Which I "barely" miss.... Of course I am Fi-dom so I keep my F-ness hidden... so perhaps no one will suspect me!

Anyways... I do NOT want to live forever. At the end of my life I will close the windows, bring down the curtains, blow out the candle, and leave the doors unlocked.

Seeing the state the world is in today... I really am not down for how it will be in 50 years much less 150 years. Maybe 500 years if humanity has blown itself to bits, and I can live in some natural forest.... mmm, on second thought, still no.

@Jim - that's why I was asking. I did not vote to skew your scientific results. :D
 

Santosha

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I would want to consciously exist in some form, always.

But if I had to remain in a human form, even if that body did not age, I think that I would become tired of it within a few hundred years, and begin to really consider the great eternal sleep a comfort.

I have worked with the older population and seen this in people by 70, and people that are in tremendous pain or exhaustion. I wish everyone was given as much time as they wanted to experience and grow, and that they could check-out on their own terms.
 

Octarine

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I have worked with the older population and seen this in people by 70, and people that are in tremendous pain or exhaustion. I wish everyone was given as much time as they wanted to experience and grow, and that they could check-out on their own terms.

Yes, the body often gives up before the mind.
 

Totenkindly

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I'm not sure. Sometimes I want to die already, simply because I'm tired, felt like I've dealt with a lot in my life, and would be happy to let go.

And it's the same pattern -- always searching for something new to occupy one's attention so as not to be bored. The cycle might get repetetive after awhile.

And it would be painful knowing that everyone I know and love would get old and die, while I would continue to live. After awhile, it might feel fruitless to even bother connecting with anyone, since they're going to be gone anyway soon enough and the loss process would occur all over again.

... then again, when you're offered the choice to die, who actually wants to take it? There's a life instinct that wants to keep on keeping on.
 

Octarine

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Perhaps too many people take the gift of a healthy life for granted.
 

CzeCze

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Yeah I'm down.

Do I have to hide that I can live a long time though? Because I don't want to be persecuted my whole life and spend it on the run. I also don't want to be sick or indigent. I don't want to be 'locked in' as I am now, like the vampires in those "Interview With a Vampire" books. Also, am I indestructible? I dunno wanna be like the ladies in "Death Becomes Her".

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?

If I get real bored I'll just become an alcoholic or something for a few decades then snap out of it in time for the revolution.

0.o

I think living through the birth and death of loved ones would force me to grow profoundly as a person. I wonder how a person's personality would change through the years?
 

Totenkindly

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Do I have to hide that I can live a long time though? Because I don't want to be persecuted my whole life and spend it on the run. I also don't want to be sick or indigent. I don't want to be 'locked in' as I am now, like the vampires in those "Interview With a Vampire" books. Also, am I indestructible? I dunno wanna be like the ladies in "Death Becomes Her".

I dunno, maybe I could handle being a vampire if I could look like Kate Beckinsale forever without running down. :)

I think living through the birth and death of loved ones would force me to grow profoundly as a person. I wonder how a person's personality would change through the years?

That's actually an excellent question. I've only been alive forty years or so, and I've already experienced some major shift in self-perception, enough that I look back at the person I was when I was twenty and see that self as a stranger in many ways. It must be disorienting/unsettling to constantly be "losing" old selves that, of changing so much that it's hard to maintain continuity.
 
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