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Jitro
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05 Aug 2012, 6:32 pm

Would you like to live for all eternity?



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05 Aug 2012, 6:33 pm

Yes.



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05 Aug 2012, 6:36 pm

In principal, yes.

Only if my family could too.



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05 Aug 2012, 6:43 pm

Jitro wrote:
Would you like to live for all eternity?


so far I have.


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05 Aug 2012, 6:47 pm

I guess it really depends on many things.

Will there be other human beings for company? Will humans eventually evolve beyond all recognition?

Will the world (or lack of) really be a sort of place worth being around in a million or a billion years?

I guess it might be nice to stick around to see how the next 10 or 20 thousand years pan out for mankind, but if theres some apocalyptic catastrophe like a nuclear war or meteor strike that changes things for the worse I may start to envy the dead.



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05 Aug 2012, 7:32 pm

The movie Highlander sums it up for me. I could not bear the pain of out living all my loved ones.
Only with the hope that I could grow old and die when I wanted to and have my loved ones able to
live that long with me would it bearable.



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05 Aug 2012, 7:59 pm

Yes
I want to see what the future holds.


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05 Aug 2012, 8:00 pm

I would prefer an infinite set of finite lives to a finite set of infinite lives.

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05 Aug 2012, 9:25 pm

Certain quality of life issues would need to be sorted out. Is still life as a regular human that needs food and has vulnerabilities like broken bones or illnesses? Eventually the planet will become uninhabitable and one will need to deal with unusual challenges. Or preferably have a means to space travel.



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06 Aug 2012, 12:04 am

I don't think I understand practically the consequences of living forever. My life and my understanding of it would certainly be completely different if I knew that there was no programmed end to it, so as "I" am only my mortal self, I cannot answer.

There is an interesting take on this in Tolkien's writing, especially in the Silmarillon. On the one hand, mortal Men envy the Elves because they escape death; on the other, the Elves grow weary of the world, and envy Men because they are allowed to escape it.



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06 Aug 2012, 12:15 am

nolan1971 wrote:
The movie Highlander sums it up for me. I could not bear the pain of out living all my loved ones.
Only with the hope that I could grow old and die when I wanted to and have my loved ones able to
live that long with me would it bearable.


I would like to take the opposite tack - screw my loved ones. I'll have forever to get over it.

However, I don't think I'd go for it. I'm pretty sure the slide into jaded debauchery would be unavoidable.


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06 Aug 2012, 12:23 am

I would love to live for eternity unable to age as well staying looking like I am in my 20s and just generate income in my savings account and travel the world many times!


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06 Aug 2012, 3:17 am

If I can continue to be in good health, then that wouldn't be a bad proposition. At least as long as my wife and daughter can also live forever with me.

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06 Aug 2012, 3:23 am

Hell no! :lol:



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06 Aug 2012, 3:28 am

ruveyn wrote:
I would prefer an infinite set of finite lives to a finite set of infinite lives.

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This. I'd like a choice to renew, not a choice to continue for eternity.
Eternity isn't all that interesting if whatever makes life interesting will only exist for a few million more years at most.



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06 Aug 2012, 6:40 am

AspieOtaku wrote:
I would love to live for eternity unable to age as well staying looking like I am in my 20s and just generate income in my savings account and travel the world many times!


While everyone else you might care for shrivels and dies including your own children, grandchildren etc..

No thank you.

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