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[King Zultan]

Stop telling him things like that, he's gonna explode at this rate.

Oh, I am fine- KABOOM

Oh god look what you guys did, he exploded!

Nah, don't worry, that's just his prostate.

What? What do you mean my... AAAAAAAAAAAAAA-BOOOOOOM

At the rate little bits of him are exploding he'll be dead by the end of the week, I hope you monsters are happy.

[hector13]

We’re lucky he doesn’t have an explosive temper!

… or diarrhea…

[Magmacube_tr]

I am fine. As long as there is some sort of rock or magma, I'll come back.

[King Zultan]

I am fine. As long as there is some sort of rock or magma, I'll come back.

So I got all worked up for nothing, you'll just come back from the ashes like a phoenix.

[Great Order]

Your worrying has made me sad, because I just suddenly got reminded that at some point, me and my friends are going to get old and we're gonna start attending each others funerals.

And if we don't, that's actually worse.

There's a reason I live in sort of wilful ignorance of the whole thing.

[Magmacube_tr]

And if we don't, that's actually worse.

I first thought of this as "what if we don't die?". Then understood that you meant you guys separating.

[hector13]

It would be horrible if we didn’t die.

[Frumple]

If we couldn't, maybe. Didn't is a different proposition, and one I'd heavily, heavily disagree with.

It might have its own set of problems, but it'd at least be a hell of a lot better if we just got the option to choose when we go, instead of the genuinely fucking horrible shit we deal with in our current situation.

[JoshuaFH]

I mean, on an individual level, not dying would be great; assuming it's the good kind of immortality where you get to stay young and nubile, and your brain retains its plasticity to allow you to keep learning and enjoying life.

On a civilization/species-wide level, it'd be utterly catastrophic. The human race would calcify and tear itself apart. Nature invented death to stop the old from endlessly suffocating the growth of the new, and that's exactly what would happen. Either population growth is purposefully stifled so the oldest immortals can continue to live out their infinitely long lives in relative comfort and pleasure; or it isn't stifled and humanity inevitably and perpetually splinters into neverending wars of young vs old, creating a new cycle of life and death, but this time instead of death being a natural process that is unavoidable, it's an artificial process wrought by human hands in bloodbaths that beget more bloodbaths.

[King Zultan]

Living forever sounds terrible.

[Great Order]

And if we don't, that's actually worse.

I first thought of this as "what if we don't die?". Then understood that you meant you guys separating.

Oh no, the alternative is we don't get old.

[McTraveller]

Living forever in this world is a terrible proposition.  Think of the PTSD associated with living through the past two centuries, or the past two millennia.

[Eric Blank]

No power no water this morning, pipes froze, propane in the tanks isnt boiling (only gaseous propane can flow up and out through the hoses). Very much ugh.

[scriver]

Who wants to live forever?

Or alternatively, I prefer: "What do we say to the God of Death?"

[hector13]

What took you so long motherfucker!?