If you had the choice to be immortal ...

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If someone with the power to turn you immortal gave you 15 seconds to decide if you want live forever what would your answer be ?



I would definitely say no thanks.

Definitely would say yes.

Only if someone offered to teach me swordplay. All those other immortals would be running around trying to take my head. We can sense each other, ya know?

Never. No way. Why would I want to stick around in this body, on this planet, in this whole material mess? My soul has so much more to do than worry about being human.

After the sun goes super nove you'd just drift through space for all enternity. That would suck.

Sun won't go supernova. It isn't big enough. As it runs out of hydrogen and begins to fuse helium, it will swell into a red giant for a few million years, then shrink to a brown dwarf: a dead star.

That doesn't matter though. Even a small drop in the energy output as Sun begins to die will cause Earth to freeze solid. (And eventually melt into a giant ball of liquid rock and metal when the red giant's surface engulfs Mercury and Venus and comes very very close to Earth.)

None of that matters either. Earth's plate tectonics will cease when the mantle cools. That will happen far far sooner than the death of the sun. Plate tectonics regulate the temperature of the planet and make life possible. When they stop, Earth will turn into something resembling today's Mars.

Now, whether or not life will survive until that time is debatable. Some other climate change or cosmic disaster may take us out before the Earth turns into Mars.

immortal doesn't necessarily mean you can't die. It just takes a lot more effort. Head lopped off, stake through the heart, incinerated...

so yeah, I'd want to live for as long as I think I'm ready to go.

As long as I don't grow (older...

But sheesh, no retirement, new identities are a @#$% nowadays, kinda takes the fun out, donnit?...

I can't see why anyone would want to live forever. Saying that you can live forever could possibly devoid life of any desire to achieve things "in one's lifetime".

I'm surprised to see so many answer "no". When ever I talked about this with friends they seemed to think that it was automatic to say yes. Obviously theres more factors that come into play like not growing older but that's why I said 15 seconds. No time to asks questions lol

And that post was interesting to read Dilbert

Yes, I would be. Corporeally though... only if my future wife is also and we remain in good health and remain youthful in state and appearance.

As for the 10,000 years bit:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU2h9dXPat0[/youtube]

id want to live longer than a normal human life, and probably kill myself when Ive had enough, or just swordfight till my head lops off ha ha death is needed i reckon, but life is too damn short imo im only 19 and I feel old, halfway to 38!! !!

No, I care too much about my family and friends to leave them forever, even if I did live forever.

I remember reading this science fiction story but I can’t remember the name now. It was about earth sometime in the future when everyone had become immortal in that they had stopped the aging process. Along with being immortal they all had also become hypochondriacs because now they had more to lose.

i'd love to live forever