Would you rather live 80 years or 1,000 years?

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Let's say your family and friends also have the option of choosing.

Why the hell would anyone want to live for 1,000 years.
It is completely unnatural and physically impossible. The world will end before then.
If the the sun doesn't destroy the earth nuclear weapons will first.

The sun won't destroy the earth with in the next 1000 years AFAIK altho nuclear war is always a possibility.

I'd say sure to the 1000 years as long as I wasn't aging. Don't want to be looking like the crypt keeper. Dying sucks.

I will live 43 years and then my heart will fail just like it does for everyone in my family. Predictable = awesome.

I don't even want to live for 80 years.

However I would say not to 100,000 years or a million years or more. There is just so much of life that I could bear.

When everything is just a repetition of what has come before it can get rather boring.

ruveyn

I especially agree with the bolded. It's an inevitability because of our tendency to notice and think in patterns. How early someone becomes bored enough to decide they've had enough depends on the individual, but I have doubts that anyone would even make it to 1000 even if it becomes a possibility.

things don't repeat themselves exactly the same around the rythm is a melody i'd like to stay for ages.

If life could be extended that long, it could only be through natural means obeying physical laws.

The sun is not due to use up its fuel for another 5 billion years.

Nuclear war is a possibility, but it is not a certainty.

ruveyn

maybe if i actually had the life of riley, i wouldn't mind sticking around for maybe 100 years but not for 10x that much. the least of heaven is so much better than the finest that this hellworld has to offer. only the fortunate [lucky and strong] people will fall for the false charm of living forever in this world.

No way will the sun destroy the earth in 1000 years. Maybe in a billion.

i bet i could keep myself entertained for a thousand years, there are simply so many possibilities and so much to learn and understand.

If I live to be 80 I'll call it a miracle

80 years alone sounds exhausting.

A thousand years are like a day.

I guess it would depend on boredom. If I somehow knew that I'd be able to maintain an interest or string of interests, that could be ok. But if it's 995 years of boredom, depression/anhedonia, and ennui (sp?), then no thanks.