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Would I? Hell yes. I've always known that I would be "cut out" for immortality. It's just one of those self-evident things. I don't keep any friends, or lovers, and don't/won't have any close ties of any kind, and with my extreme tolerance for prolonged periods of boredom, I think I'd handle it relatively well.
I'd take it as long as it were still possible for me to voluntarily die at any point of my choosing. Wouldn't want to hang around forever after entropy has reached its maximum, because that'd just suck.
I would not want to outlive my children. However, I think I could take up a few dozen lifetimes doing interesting things.
That would be depressing for sure yet on the other hand you could see that thier children and grandchildren were safe and you could be that stange uncle who comes to visit with worldly advice.
It really depends for me IF there was some way I could have my current GF with me and she was immortal then by all means yes. I truly enjoy life but I wouldn't want it without her. Yeah I'm a sap.
I watch a show last night called "Through the Wormhole" it was about "Immortality", I'd like to discuss this on a philosophical sense and not a religious sense. I'm not talking about immortality as in indestructable but in the ability to live forever.
Questions:
How would immortality impact relationships? Would relationships with families stay intact. If you knew that people lived forever how would your approach be toward them.
My answer, I think that society would become emotionless, most emotions stem from the temporary nature of life, our fear of loss.
How would the human species evolve to deal with overpopulation?
We are products of our envionment, would be evolve to have less children, instead of the female being born with about 400 eggs could the female evolve to have only 2 or 3 eggs.
If you had the chance, would you want to live forever? For me, maybe not forever, but a few hundred years would be interesting. I'd love to see where human nature is going to take us.
These are just a couple of questions, I'd like to hear your questions and thoughts on this subject.
It would be boring after a few million, billion, trillions years.
I view this "immortality" question from a position of frustration.
Imagine that you are at the lowest rung of the ladder in any profession, hobby, or occupation.
The "great ones" will always be the "great ones."
There is no mobility. You and I will always be in last place.
There will be no growth. Stagnation will occur. We will long for death, an ending.
Couple that with the dire prospect of having to stick around on this silly little world. Yuck! We just invented a real Hell.
A while back, there was a Star Trek episode whereby the intrepid crew of the Enterprise caught up with Leonardo DaVinci (living on another planet). Having lived for centuries on end, he was finally dying. And as upset as Bones was over this "great one" dying, Leonardo was grateful that it was all finally coming to an end.
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Sure, it would be nice to see how "it all turns out" after a few centuries. Unfortunately, the attention of the world would be focused on you, should immortality be only for the few.
I feel that we already know how things are going to turn out: we've been there, done that before. We, as a species, rise and fall. We reach a certain technological point, and then we are back to subsistence existence. In all the iterations of mankind over thousands of centuries, we have failed to evolve as humans, to surpass the very destructive, innate forces within ourselves.
"We are nine meals from chaos." Love that line. As long as we are fat, dumb, and happy, we can live as a society and deal with almost any problem. But take away our "lifelines" (e.g., technology), and we revert back to the worst of animals.
I'd rather not be around when that happens. My luck, however, is that I will be reborn to the survivors, eeking out a pointless life for what?
I've crunched the numbers and figured that I had enough in investments to last me to the 80-90 year old range. If I had counted on immortality I wouldn't have retired at 55.
Personally, given the information I have amassed concerning living and my life, I would like to live forever, given the option. There would be a few conditions however. I would have to be healthy throughout. I would not want to live alone in a world destroyed by nuclear destruction, a plague, or some such thing. But if every year could be like any of the last five or six years, I can see no reason why I would not want to go on forever.
As much as we all want to live, I would not want to outlive my entire family, children, grandchildren etc. Imagine the pain.
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