Would you want immortality?

[DuckRacer]

And why or why not?

EDIT: And you'd be 25 to 30-years-old or however old you want to be... and you don't age.

 

[ceiling_fan]

No because my senses would deteriorate as well as my spine/brain.

 

[Loon]

I said yes but it does really depend if you age the same or not.

 

[TopHat]

No. Overcrowding. Life would be hell.

 

[DuckRacer]

No because my senses would deteriorate as well as my spine/brain.

I said yes but it does really depend if you age the same or not.

OK for the sake of clarity, let's pretend you're 25-30 years old, and you stay that way. No aging.

 

[Loon]

Then hell yeah.👍

 

[exigeracer]

Yes, but have the option to just call it quits whenever I wanted.

 

[Philly]

I said no. It would probably get boring. And lots of people. I would just feel unnatural if I was immortal. It just doesn't sound all that great.

Besides, why have Earth when you can have perfection in Heaven?

There is my theological Christian contribution for the day.

 

[Blackbird.]

Assuming I only had immortality, no. My loved one would age past me and eventually grow old while I stayed the same age then die. That would suck

 

[Omnis]

Immortality would lead to emo-tality after a few centuries. I'd rather die than be emo and try to kill myself.

 

[Turbo Lag]

No way. It'd be really boring.

 

[a6m5]

With enough time, I'm thinking I might actually get good at Gran Turismo games. I'd shoot for all Golds in a few hundred years. Maybe.

 

[niky]

Immortality would lead to emo-tality after a few centuries. I'd rather die than be emo and try to kill myself.

I seriously LOL'd at this one.

I'm of the same opinion... but for more pragmatic reasons... say, a million years from now... I'm the last human on Earth... none of the creatures left are genetically similar enough for me to... uhm... you know... with. That would be a bummer.

And give it ten million years... Ice Age? Greenhouse? I'd be itchy as hell or freezng to undeath.

Another hundred million... a billion? Asphyxiating from lack of oxygen... starving to undeath over and over again... not my idea of a good time.

And by the heat death of the universe, I'll probably have gone crazy a billion times over... eyeballs cracked and frozen, drifting in a vacuum for megayears... such fun...

 

[Cap'n Jack]

I said no. It'd be pretty sweet untill everyone you know and love all die.

 

[DustDriver]

I said yes, but only if you could make the people you love immortal as well.
(without sucking their blood that is)

And off course, also the choice to die if you want to.

 

[Barracuda]

I seriously LOL'd at this one.

I'm of the same opinion... but for more pragmatic reasons... say, a million years from now... I'm the last human on Earth... none of the creatures left are genetically similar enough for me to... uhm... you know... with. That would be a bummer.

That's why we have opposable thumbs

I do agree though, it would really suck to live forever. What would be the point in doing anything, you don't just have your whole life ahead of you, you have an eternity.

 

[V1P3R]

no...

 

[Mark T]

I would only like to be immortal if it included not being able to die from serious injury.

It would be really depressing to see hundreds of friends & family pass away while your left alive.

 

[Barracuda]

At least you'd be able to watch your family tree grow. That would suck to see your own son or daughter dieing of old age though

I would much rather be able to time travel, but without the ability to affect the course of history with my presence or actions in that time period. It would really suck to be stuck in another universe for the rest of your life

 

[prisonermonkeys]

Problem: eventually the universe will end and start to decay.

You, however, wouldn't.





As for me, I'd only want immortality if the ones I love could have it too.

[/false sentimentality]

 

[Muzaffar]

No....it would be just unnatural.

 

[kikie]

No, absolutely not.

* This planet isn't going to be around for ever.

* What happens with you if the sun goes super nova and you're still alive?

* What are you going to do if major natural disasters happens or WWIII, IV, V, etc...

* I believe that being immortal doesn't mean that you can't suffer.

* What if you're abducted by aliens and you never see planet earth again?

* You can't get close to someone because they age and die, so you will be losing a lot off people you're close to.

*

 

[TheCracker]

On the plus side you'd get your money's worth from a lifetime GTP Premium account though wouldn't you.

 

[kikie]

On the plus side you'd get your money's worth from a lifetime GTP Premium account though wouldn't you.

Yeah, but you have to become an *immortal super mod* first.

 

[TheCracker]

You'd probably have a fair chance of being around for when GT6 hits the shops too.

 

[Greycap]

Not total immortality, but let's say protection from diseases. I'd be more than happy to live for 80 more years and then die as a healthy old man as I would have seen everything needed in that time.

 

[Cap'n Jack]

* What if you're abducted by aliens and you never see planet earth again?

That could still happen, even if you're not immortal.

 

[Danoff]

Ok, I don't think I'd want to be completely indestructible. But if someone's offering me a Dracula type situation where I can die, but only in a very specific way (but without the need to drink the blood of the living of course), I could get on board with that.

If things start to get ugly, I'll end it myself. At least death will be on my own terms.

Until things get ugly, I'll just enjoy life for a really loooong time. You'd really be able to amass some serious knowledge in that amount of time... and money. Can you imagine never having to retire? Constantly building up cash and benefiting from 100s of years of compounding interest???

You'd be filthy rich after the first 200 years for sure.

(just crunched the numbers: $10,000 put in the market at year 1 with a 6% return means over $3 million after 100 years. After 200 years it's $1,086,093,433)

It would suck that I'd outlive my wife... and children... and their children... But I don't think that would be reason enough to not take the immortality option. Unless you're willing to commit suicide after your loved ones are gone, immortality should still be a viable option. And if you ARE willing to commit suicide, I'd presume that you're able to. So either way, immortality isn't holding you back - it's just offering you persistent youth throughout the length of life that you choose to live.

It's actually a no-brainer.

 

[Omnis]

That's eternal youth, though, not immortality. If you could go by accident or something, that changes everything.

Here's the thing, though: I'd rather have complete telekinesis than eternal youth. You could control your cells with your brain, kill cancer, keep your heart pumping-- everything. And you could help others in the same way too. You would be the definition of uber-micro.

 

[Danoff]

That's eternal youth, though, not immortality. If you could go by accident or something, that changes everything.

EDIT: And you'd be 25 to 30-years-old or however old you want to be... and you don't age.

Well it's a combination really. Eternal youth kinda means immortality. It's hard to even conceive of an indestructible person - one who could not die under any circumstances. I would not want to be such a person. But the immortality that we're familiar with from movies be much more serviceable. If the only way I could die were a stake through the heart and my head cut off - I think I could get on board.