Soul Searcher Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 The first option is No. Just try to imagine how handsome/ beautiful you are gonna look at 5000 years old. Also, old age and diseases and all that stuffs that is not worth it in the end. Frozen in time does sound appealing but only if there is somebody to spend that eternity with and other things that I might need. Basically, that life should be comfortable and full of happiness. I won't mind occasional hiccups but only if in the end, everything is okay. However, I am of the belief that death is not the end, it's just a catalyst for a change. We all live because someday we might die. If there is no death, there is no meaning of life. Plus a lot of other theological stuffs that I have not actually explored. Conclusion- I want to die. Not anytime soon. But when I am old, seen happiness and done something for people I love and I am surrounded by my family, I'd want to pass the responsibility on somebody else and then go out in peace. Link to post Share on other sites
Lord Jade Cross Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Hell no! I can't wait for my time on this Earth to be over, so there's no way I would choose immortality Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Other: Immortality without aging, preferably with my 17-year-old body thanks! Link to post Share on other sites
Ashmedai Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 That would just break the circle of life and existence. You live, you die. What makes you becomes something else, as was what was something else becomes you. Not to mention immortality would end up as eternal suffering. Link to post Share on other sites
Homer Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 1 hour ago, Jade Cross said: Hell no! I can't wait for my time on this Earth to be over, so there's no way I would choose immortality +1 There's no point in me being here in the first place, so. Link to post Share on other sites
Bio 7 Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Do I get any extra immunity or healing from the immortality in option 2? Link to post Share on other sites
Yoruka Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Can't we just be like the territopsis nuctricula and change our stages of life when we get too old, over and over until we get eaten? Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 4 hours ago, Jade Cross said: Hell no! I can't wait for my time on this Earth to be over, so there's no way I would choose immortality Mood Link to post Share on other sites
Lonemathsytoothbrushthief Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 11 minutes ago, Phoenix the II said: Mood Same Link to post Share on other sites
Soul Searcher Posted March 16, 2020 Author Share Posted March 16, 2020 1 hour ago, Yoruka said: Can't we just be like the territopsis nuctricula and change our stages of life when we get too old, over and over until we get eaten? No idea what what that is. Link to post Share on other sites
Soul Searcher Posted March 16, 2020 Author Share Posted March 16, 2020 2 hours ago, Bio 7 said: Do I get any extra immunity or healing from the immortality in option 2? Healing? Well, try to think it like this- no physical changes in your body whatsoever. You will just exist and do anything that you want. Just you will be frozen in the state you are right now. Would you choose then? Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 39 minutes ago, Brainiac said: Healing? Well, try to think it like this- no physical changes in your body whatsoever. You will just exist and do anything that you want. Just you will be frozen in the state you are right now. Would you choose then? If my wife also got it, then sure. Link to post Share on other sites
MacAttack Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Absolutely not, not if everyone I care about dies and I'm just stuck here unable to join them. Link to post Share on other sites
Dreamer23 Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Wait, how does number one work. If I'm immortal, that'd mean telomeres are no longer shrinking and importantly my cells are safe from mutations or bad copies (which is what kills most people) -> but that'd also prevent all age related diseases. So I don't get how 1 would work from a biological perspective 😕 Or are you saying I'll age till like 90 and then be frozen in time? At least some of that stuff would still be operable then Also when we are talking immortal, does that include unnatural deaths ? (Like being run over by a car won't kill me) Link to post Share on other sites
Gloomy Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 No to both. Immortality sounds like it would get really boring and depressing after a while. Link to post Share on other sites
AceMissBehaving Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 The first one, absolutely fucking not. The Second one depends on if by immortality you mean like vampires, so won’t die naturally, but can be killed them maybe. That way when I get tired of it all there is still a possible out. Osamu Tesuka did a manga series called Phoenix, that highlighted one horrifying downside of immortality if you can not be killed, which is even though you will live forever, the world will not. Link to post Share on other sites
Bio 7 Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 3 hours ago, Brainiac said: Healing? Well, try to think it like this- no physical changes in your body whatsoever. You will just exist and do anything that you want. Just you will be frozen in the state you are right now. Would you choose then? Hmm well if I’m stuck in this state forever then no. I need to get my body fixed first it’s a mess. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 Absolutely not to the first one. The second? Sounds enticing. I'd consider that. Link to post Share on other sites
andreas1033 Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 None of the above(ie options). I hate this planet,a nd humans, i am a total misanthrope. If people want these ideas, and obsess with this stuff, and want it, fine. I would never want it. The worst moment of my life was being born into this horrid world. I do not want to be in it a second more then i have too. People should have a choice on such things, and i will never want these things. For me, they are both bad choices, and i would rather just choose to die like people did before now. I want nothing to do with transhumanism. Link to post Share on other sites
iff Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 The first one - no, absolutely The second one - I have made the suggestion that everyone stop aging but that was when I was in my 20s. Now in my 30s and time is taking effect, it is becoming far less tempting. The poll itself reminds of the story of Tir na nOg (in English, land of the youth where a person never ages) Link to post Share on other sites
Zagadka Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 I don't want to stay around longer. I would go nuts, I can barely handle life now, much less sustaining it indefinitely. Link to post Share on other sites
Soul Searcher Posted March 17, 2020 Author Share Posted March 17, 2020 10 hours ago, Dreamer23 said: Wait, how does number one work. If I'm immortal, that'd mean telomeres are no longer shrinking and importantly my cells are safe from mutations or bad copies (which is what kills most people) -> but that'd also prevent all age related diseases. So I don't get how 1 would work from a biological perspective 😕 Or are you saying I'll age till like 90 and then be frozen in time? At least some of that stuff would still be operable then Also when we are talking immortal, does that include unnatural deaths ? (Like being run over by a car won't kill me) Hahaha. I wasn't really thinking about the biological technicalities while writing this poll. I don't even know if immortality is actually possible. However, they being said I once saw a hypothetical documentary about Adam Savage in 1000 year old man where he kept aging until 500 or so and by then the science had developed enough to rejuvenate all of his dead cells in the body and he had nanotech implants in his body to keep all things out that might cause his body harm thus allowing him to live forever. I never took biology above what was mandatory so I don't know anything about telomeres and all. Sorry. Also, I think immortality does mean that you won't die in cat accident or that your consciousness can be preserved in very small parts of your body until your body can br put together again. Just like how deleted files are stored in the 0 sector in case you would want to recover them. Link to post Share on other sites
Skycaptain Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 1- nope 2- yep, but would have been better if it had happened a couple of decades ago 😋😋 Link to post Share on other sites
WanderingKate Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 No- although I enjoy my life for the most part, I also enjoy the passing of time and going through life's stages. I imagine things would seem fairly...dull and anticlimactic, for lack of a better word, if there was no beginning or end to life. Link to post Share on other sites
Alejandrogynous Posted March 18, 2020 Share Posted March 18, 2020 1) Definitely not 2) Yes, no question. Can you imagine the amount of things you can learn and know and accomplish and create with infinite time? And it doesn't specify that you can't die so if I ever am ready, I'd just off myself. (Or if I can't, reach some sort of meditative unexistence.) Link to post Share on other sites
Tja Posted March 19, 2020 Share Posted March 19, 2020 1- No 2- Yes. It's only me, so I'm used to being alone. Wouldn't bother me, at all. If the world ended, like if the Sun went nova, and I couldn't die, then I'd start swimming through the Universe and see what's out there.🏊♂️ Link to post Share on other sites
uniQChick Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 Yes, eternity with God! Link to post Share on other sites
GlamRocker Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 Yes to 2, but only if I can still die in some way so I can kill myself when I'm done. As for losing everyone I love, that's part of the point of saying yes. I would have no trouble taking care of every single one of them til the very end, they wouldn't die alone. It's safe to assume I would be invulnerable to the things mortals would be vulnerable to, and would, therefore, be the greatest protector imaginable. Though I'd have to be careful to isolate myself and not make more friends once I couldn't stand to go on anymore, because I'd have to hang on until they passed. I also expect I'd have a hell of a lot of fun, being invincible. Link to post Share on other sites
SithLord Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 If it came with being a vampire and being able to be in a cool vampire society, FUCK YES (to number 2, screw the first option). But I don't want to be the only immortal. That would suck. I'm not the type of person who could deal with being alone forever, doomed to watch your loved ones die... Link to post Share on other sites
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