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People in media always make immortality sound awful. It really wouldnt be that bad, they always make little twists like you can't ever die or nobody else can be immortal with you, all because its hard to make giving people more time to live seem awful without those twists. I find it fairly annoying.
Every time something uses the ‘life only has meaning because it ends’ trope I want to scream
It's a philosophical point of view and like anything, it's debatable.
Death create an urgency, and we cannot substract ourselves from that.
When we imagine immortality, it is framed within this urgency. You might think : well there is so much I haven't seen. But by being immortal in the litteral sense of the word, at one point, you will have seen everything to not care about it anymore. Then what? You go interstellar in the hope of finding something new in a few millions years?
If I could live a thousand years, I would definitely be interested. But living billions of years with no end in sight? Absolutely not.
I would accept immortality if I could choose to die at any moment
(Quasi-heatdeath and all that)
Elf immortality would be enough for most people, can't get sick, can't die of old age, but can still be outright killed.
Ah Mercury. So Shiney and so deadly.
I was more excited about life at 8 than
atafter 20, so for me it's def reversed.Tho I do need to know if an elixir causes immortality, I do not want to drink it by accident.
Imagine still being alive to witness the slow, agonizing death of the universe, when all matter and energy are evenly spread across an incomprehensible vastness, and nothing will or can ever happen again. The next billion years would be fairly interesting until the sun expands and swallows the Earth...or, at least, dries up its oceans. Hopefully, you've found a way out and onto another planet for another billion or so years. But after about 170 quattuorvigintillion years of cold, dark, nothingness, you'll probably get pretty bored of it all.
I don't think very many people, if any, want to be unable to die forever. Most people just want more time.
Making a lot of assumptions here that our models are accurate enough to correctly predict the end of the universe - whether it's a big crunch, big rip, heat death, some clumsy git dropping the marble so it shatters, or something else entirely. I would take eternal life+youth so I could find out.
Once I know everything, then I might get bored.
So far, I think the general consensus is heat death. Being an optimist, my hope is for the big crunch. If that one's true, what'd be infinitely hilarious is if it always repeats in exactly the same way.
If that's the case, then I guess all of us do truly live forever. We just microdose the same exact snippet of eternity.
So much of what exists is spheres and circles. Who's to say time doesn't also run in a circle?
I was promised eternal life, not consciousness. That's cryosleep conditions right there.
Imagine becoming immortal at the dawn of the age of science. then spending the next 8000 years secretly building a ship in your free time to take you off this godforsaken planet.
only to find that:
a) you're not the only one
b) you're not even human
Immortality with the ability to end it at will is great. Immortality with absolute invincibility will eventuality become a living hell.
Idk, have you looked around lately? Not sure I could put up with much more of this tbh.
Also how immortal are we talking here? Like several thousand years of vamping, then kaput by unnatural causes/moidled? Or like, orbiting the last dying star for warmth as the universe goes out, immortal?
Protip: fill each day with novelty.
When we're young, everything is new. Our minds are on constant overdrive taking everything in, followed by more each and every day. As adults, we're simply not challenged at the same clip and wind up throwing out all these dull and repeated experiences - so fix it! Keep reading, keep learning, keep exploring, and never stop asking questions.
Easier said than done.
Seeking daily novelty would get expensive quickly.
That being said, if I were immortal I'd probably just sock away funds into a low risk investment vehicle and do a variety of drugs to keep me comatose until my investments made life easier.
If you can't die, you don't need a lot of fentanyl to keep you under, and from what I gather it can be had relatively cheaply - though I've never looked into it much. I realize from my brushes with opiates that were legitimately prescribed and mostly taken as directed (I'm sorry, if I'm in enough pain to warrant them, I'm popping two of em and going to lay down for a nap, then taking as directed) and I like them waaay too much to think of doing it for fun - I would ruin my life, and fast.
If you ever have kids and probably just as you age it only gets worse. I'm like, this little kid is 5 already? And it hits hard.
My best friend just had a kid. I imagine I'm gonna wake up tomorrow and he's gonna be graduating high school. When did time start passing so fucking fast?
That point in time was when the number of new things in life diminished to sporadic events. New things stand out and feel longer, repetition and same ol blurs and becomes irrelevant to memory and thusly disappears making time seem to "fly by"
If you do a ton of new things you've never experienced there's still the possibility of having an "endless summer" such as the ones people often fondly recall from their youth.
The problem often is that when young, basically everything is new, getting a bike and being able go visit a gas station is a new thing, but as an adult, visiting a gas station, even if a new one, has enough same ol to become irrelevant'd by the brain.
Each day of your life is less and less of the sum as time goes on.
oof imagine being immortal, but you keep on aging and getting diseases and stuff but they just can't kill you
Love centurii-chan
Don't forget to show the part where Hob Gadling meets them for a drink.
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So like, what problem does immortality solve? Because when I think about, it's just giving me more time to deal with more problems. Like how good of a person I am doesn't change if I live longer.
How would being immortal make your life better? because I'm just not sure I get it.
