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[The Darkling Wolf]

There was some crazy chinese emperor dude who thought eating these poisonous beans would let him live forever.

Guess how well it worked out?

I'll have you know it worked very well actually! I'm, still as fit as a fiddle.

[ShadowHammer]

On the topic of immortality, I would like to never age past my prime, as well as being immune to all diseases. I wouldn't, however, want to be completely incapable of dying, but I also wouldn't want to have to make the decision "I die now" in order for my existence to end. I would simply want to be a normal guy who simply never grows older than ~25 and never gets sick. If that wasn't an option, I would be willing to forego all of the above conditions except never dying; I wouldn't accept immortality if I could never die.

* Descan giggles at people saying, basically, "I'll be immortal but no one else will be!"

* Descan also giggles at people saying "Living forever is boring!"

1) Kind of a dick move to create a method of immortality without giving the option to use it to other people.(regardless of what it is, you guys saying "I'll just upload my neurons" like that won't kill your consciousness and like it won't be a form of immortality [i.e. someone thinkin' they're you living forever] are silly)

2A) Like you've done it.

2B) If you're bored in the universe we have, and the technologies we have and will have, and with the myriad people we have, will have, and will create, and possibly find, then you're doing it wrong. I'm not bored with life now. I don't see why I'll be bored with life tomorrow. And I don't see that stopping any time soon, especially since all evidence points to the alternative being the ultimate in boredom, i.e. *literally* being nothing and doing nothing.

These are all valid points, but...
1) I assume any immortality would be granted through magical means that you yourself have no control over, because I don't see any way in which anything bound by physical law can last forever, much less sustain a human being's life along with it through any event that may occur. Of course, it's not like I can think of a magical way either, but you know what I'm saying, right?
2A) I'm not certain I understand this point, but if you're saying "You have not lived forever, therefore you don't know whether you would be bored living forever", then the obvious response is that you also don't know whether you wouldn't be bored living forever, and some people don't want to chance it.
2B) After a long enough time, you would end up being put in a situation in which there is simply nothing to do for a very, very long time, if not forever. This would most likely happen in the form of being flung into deep space. You could, of course, occupy yourself by just thinking, but that would, after a few centuries of simply drifting through starlit emptiness, probably drive you insane. Not to mention the possibility of being sucked into a black hole: if the mystical force preserving your mind and body did manage to keep you from being destroyed, I don't imagine that there would be much sensory perception going on.

There was some crazy chinese emperor dude who thought eating these poisonous beans would let him live forever.

Guess how well it worked out?

I'll have you know it worked very well actually! I'm, still as fit as a fiddle.

Well played. Of course, you did have a few thousand years to think that one up, but still, well played.

[Skyrunner]

I'd like another hundred years of me in my prime before deciding if I want to die.

[MaximumZero]

I'd like a lot longer than that. I really enjoy the simple things in life, and there's no reason to want to give them up.

[Orange Wizard]

I'm cool with dying. I don't want to, but I'm not especially scared of it.

[MaximumZero]

I'm cool with dying. I don't want to, but I'm not especially scared of it.

Same here, although my outlook on death is a little strange.

[Descan]

:V

* Descan giggles a third time at people making a dichotomy of "Live literally until the end of time with no option of suicide or hibernation, or die when you're 80 after 30+ years of a decaying body and senility~"

"Mystical force" wat?

"Live forever" is a bit rhetorical, but I figured that'd be obvious if you read my post, considering I said things like "durable brain/body" and brain uploading (though I'm not a fan of uploading in the "copy your brain and simulate computer, and stuff your corpse down a chute" variety, or the "slice your brain into little slices and scan all the neurons and then run it on a computer" variety. I'm okay with the "get nanomachines to infect your brain and engulf each neuron, scan it's connections, destroy it and re-create the individual neuron, and then move on to the next one" variety~)

And really, something doesn't need to be novel to be entertaining. I mean, I GUESS if you eventually master and experience literally everything a game can give you, then maybe. But that's only one game. And then you have all the books that can be or will be written, which is like... Nearly infinite. :I And those are only two things!

Simply put, 80 years is too short. Life is too short, people say that rhetorically but I mean it, and I aim to fix it.

Way I see it, I'll either spend one lifetime unlocking a thousand thousand more, or I'll spend one lifetime making the world a better place with medical technologies. Either way, win/win, until I'm dead and winning is a meaningless concept.

[Vector]

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[MaximumZero]

I really wish that my prime weren't mostly being consumed by battling a post-traumatic stress condition.

... still feeling pretty shitty.

You still have a lot of prime left as an academic, polyglot, translator, writer, mathematician, teacher and general mind-oriented badass. Like, 30+ years of prime left. And after that, you'll still be an incredibly talented person with a lot of knowledge to pass on and people will tell stories about how gorram incredible you are. Not were, are.

I don't know how to say this without sounding whiny, but my prime is past as an athlete, and I'm very jealous about how long you'll be able to do what you love and what you're good at.

Edit: Durr close your BBC tags, dummy.

[Kadzar]

Even ignoring my disdain for the idea of eternal existence, I don't think immortality would be good for humans on a societal level. All the terrible people in the world would never die off and stop being terrible, and all the resource consumption an immortal species would do would discourage us from making babies, and it seems like new generations are the biggest force behind social progression.

[hops]

People will complain about life being too short until we have immortal Hitler.

Then people will be very afraid.

[MaximumZero]

People will complain about life being too short until we have immortal Hitler.

Then MZ will tie him up, put him in a bag, and have the best punching bag ever.

FTFY. ^_^

[SalmonGod]

Edit:  Nevermind.  Not real.

[tuypo1]

I really wish that my prime weren't mostly being consumed by battling a post-traumatic stress condition.

... still feeling pretty shitty.

You still have a lot of prime left as an academic, polyglot, translator, writer, mathematician, teacher and general mind-oriented badass. Like, 30+ years of prime left. And after that, you'll still be an incredibly talented person with a lot of knowledge to pass on and people will tell stories about how gorram incredible you are. Not were, are.

I don't know how to say this without sounding whiny, but my prime is past as an athlete, and I'm very jealous about how long you'll be able to do what you love and what you're good at.

Edit: Durr close your BBC tags, dummy.

im sad that i left starting my prime so late im 18 god dam years old and am only just starting to seek employment

[MaximumZero]

In tons of pain today. Was eating breakfast, and one of my already broken teeth broke further and in a way that it's hard to hold my mouth shut without grinding on it.