Do You Want to Live Forever?

[lt0778]

if i could look about 25 years and feel 25 i would love to live for ever but that's not happening. also if you live forever all your loved ones will die off i think eventually you will get lonely miss all your friends and family and i think you would just want to die so you can finally join them. this is a tough question we'll get some pretty interesting feed back on this.

 

[pixletwin]

Living forever without getting sick or old and having limitless money to take care of myself, yes.

If I still get old, sick, and have to work, no thanks.

 

[MarfMaster]

I wouldn't want to simply because a world where people live such excessively long lives means the Earth would be hellishly overpopulated. I've seen Soylent Green, no thank you.

Well 99% of the Earth's population probably wouldn't be able to afford the treatments required to extend their life.

 

[TheObsoleteMan]

Well 99% of the Earth's population probably wouldn't be able to afford the treatments required to extend their life.

Oh, so this is like a Highlander thing? Do I get to cut people's heads off? If so, then I'm in.

 

[MarfMaster]

Oh, so this is like a Highlander thing? Do I get to cut people's heads off? If so, then I'm in.

Never seen Highlander I just don't see the average health plan covering the treatments, at least at their inception.

 

[devilof76]

Death sucks. I'm in.

 

[Calcifer]

l actually can't wait till l die. i'm not scared of dying. l cant wait to find out if there really is a god. l hope l don't live to an old age, but ween our awesome healthcare might keep me ticking past the age l want.

Wish i could be this positive about "dying"

 

[The Ween]

And who knows if we will even have social security. With no income and what small amount we have saved...we are screwed. Doesn't sound like much fun to me. When I retire, I may have around $250K+ in my IRA if things go as planned...but that's not going to last long in this day and age...and if I have health problems...forget about it.

I think the only ones that are going to live a real long life are the ones that can afford it. People like me will just be left to die without help if I get sick.

Maybe I'll be this guy....

https://www.ktradionetwork.com/nwo/man-robs-bank-for-one-dollar-so-he-can-get-health-care-in-jail/

 

[TheObsoleteMan]

I think I'd be too afraid of what life would be like to want to live too long. As invasive as technology already is in our lives right now, I have a feeling we'd end up like the Borg. I'm not eager to die, but I also don't want to be a Cyberman.

 

[Boba Ben]

If there was a surgery to make me into a Terminator, I'd do it.

 

[devilof76]

I feel bad for people who think dying is better than living.

 

[mr.thrifty]

I feel bad for people who think dying is better than living.

What's worse?.......Knowing you will die or knowing you couldn't. ......

 

[Jen]

I think the only ones that are going to live a real long life are the ones that can afford it. People like me will just be left to die without help if I get sick.

Maybe I'll be this guy....

https://www.ktradionetwork.com/nwo/man-robs-bank-for-one-dollar-so-he-can-get-health-care-in-jail/

That's sad. But I wouldn't be surprised if we saw more people do desperate things like that. Or you could always become a nun. The Church will take care of you for life. You would have a simple life...but you'd have a roof over your head and health care.

I'm not scared of death anymore....that doesn't mean I want to die anytime soon....but when I'm old and broke, I'll have no problem saying goodbye and moving on to whatever lies ahead.

 

[plasmid303]

The answer is obvious. Yes. With time comes wisdom. I want to live long enough to see the end of our world, and existence. To see that last light flicker out of eternity. I'd want to see our advances and our political strife, our wars, our glorious moments in the sun. But most of all, I want to see what's out there in space. That vast, mind-blowingly massive universe of ours, with more planets than a human can fathom. One day, somehow, I hope we can visit some of these planets. And I wish I was alive to see it.

There are those (philosophy majors, undoubtedly), who'd say that death gives life meaning. I believe that that is just a coping mechanism ingrained in our cores from hundreds of thousands of years of living on a clock, a set timeframe. Constraints don't bring meaning. Thrust into a state in which we no longer have to worry about death, I wonder how our minds will react. I can't possibly fathom the concept.

 

[pixletwin]

I feel bad for people who think dying is better than living.

I feel bad for people who poop in their pants and don't notice it.

 

[devilof76]

Me too. But I thought that was the part they're fixing.

No more old poopy pants people.

There are those (philosophy majors, undoubtedly), who'd say that death gives life meaning. I believe that that is just a coping mechanism ingrained in our cores from hundreds of thousands of years of living on a clock, a set timeframe. Constraints don't bring meaning. Thrust into a state in which we no longer have to worry about death, I wonder how our minds will react. I can't possibly fathom the concept.

Death may give life meaning (it does), but aging doesn't.

And being able to live longer doesn't mean you'd be immortal. It just means you don't have to face the inevitable wearing down that getting older has always meant.

 

[Jen]

Me too. But I thought that was the part they're fixing.

No more old poopy pants people.



Death may give life meaning (it does), but aging doesn't.

And being able to live longer doesn't mean you'd be immortal. It just means you don't have to face the inevitable wearing down that getting older has always meant.

By the time this technology would be available (and no doubt expensive) we will be too old already.

 

[devilof76]

It's not funny.

 

[karamazov80]

The answer is obvious. No. With time comes understanding. I don't want to live long enough to see the end of our world, and existence. To see man turn on man, revealing his true nature. I'd not want to see the further devolution of our political institutions, more wars, more piteous moments of human frailty. But most of all, I don't want to see what's out there in space. That vast, mind-blowingly massive universe of ours, with more planets than humans can fathom. One day, man will truly understand his insignificance in the face of this, and I pray I'm not alive to see the after-effects.

There are those (irrational optimists, undoubtedly), who'd say that life has meaning. I believe that that is just a coping mechanism ingrained in our cores in order to deal with conscious self-awareness. Psychological frailties don't bring meaning. Thrust into a state in which we no longer have to worry about death, I wonder how our minds will react. I can't possibly fathom the concept, but am sure that it would be the most horrible thing human-kind has ever faced.

 

[devilof76]

Completely irrational. What's rational is believing that humans are capable of nothing but self-destruction and that it actually matters how small we are compared to the entire universe.