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Living Forever
Gnomelover:
I don't want to sound depressed but I think one lifetime is enough. Sure I would gain knowledge and of course I am curious, but living forever would mean seeing everything I know die over and over again and knowing that the grief will never stop. It would be living hell. :evil:
Devious Viper:
--- Quote from: omnipotentoculus on April 15, 2006, 07:24:18 PM ---given the choice, I would choose immorality.
--- End quote ---
Freudian slip, Omni? :lol:
Although, that has to be a salient point, too. Like Dorian Gray, an immortal would - imo - become jaded, decadent; the innate human desire for novelty would force them to seek ever-increasing bizzarre stimulus, and ultimately brain-destroying boredom would see them seeking release through suicide. Besides, life without death ceases to have meaning: it would be like sex without orgasm, or 20/20 vision in a world with no light.
No thanks - I'll take mortality.
Dark Lord M:
FOr what I said earlier, my father told me that. Anyway, for the live forever thing, they would only give it to healthy, elderly people. There skin wouldn't age anymore and they couldn't die from disease, of course if they wanted to die... I'm sure they could hire a mercinary or something to kill them. 8-)
*I know I repeated the disease thing, I don't want to catch pnemonia again.*
mike624:
I wouldn't want to live forever just because if anything were to happen to every human on Earth, and everyone were to die, it would be forever with no one to talk to but yourself.
omnipotentoculus:
Dark Lord makes a point, which despite my Freudian slip (thanks DV), I think would make immortality not just tolerable but enjoyable. The ability to die gives life its meaning, but living forever means it isn't restricted merely by time. Something else must cause its end. Unlike Dorien Gray, who could be shot, stabbed, burned etc. with out so much as flinching, all of these maladies would be a threat to the immortal-self we are describing.
The immortality I generally think of mirrors the story "Out Numbering the Dead" in which people are "overhauled" every 20 years or so with cloned organs. Think of it as a face-lift for the whole body that is completely safe and does not leave one looking like Joan Rivers. In that sense, the person generally maintains a permenant state of being a healthy 30-35 year old. If this were the "immortality," I would definitely take it.
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