Do you want to live forever

take everything

If so, why.
If not, why not.

Just wondering as well how it correlates with your happiness. Are you happy.

vicwatson

I would like to live more than once but not forever, it'd get boring

Jim Bob Scratcher

Honestly, I cannot wait till the day I die. It's only in death that you are truely liberated.

galljga1

Just one word: health, both physical and mental.

jacksie66

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The King of Moo

I'd like to live for 100-year stretches, with 100-year cryogenic sleeps in between, so I'd get to appreciate leaps in development during the breaks, as opposed to not really appreciating them by seeing them gradually occur.
And I'd also like to have the option to die.

Kerrydude1981

PandaX9

No, because living any age past the age of 70/80 (depending on your family's genetic history) you'd still have the mind of a 70-80 year old. For the rest of your life. There's a reason why some people suffer from memory loss with age, and that would only be exacerbated by living on and on and on. Not to mention physical age also - sure what use is being 200 years old if everyone you knew is dead and you've got arthritis and high blood pressure to the extreme? I would find it very lonely.


In that case I would rather be able to live out my lifespan to its natural end but stop aging around 30-40. Or live 10 lives, each time anew with no previous recollection.

SEPT 23 1989

The King of Moo wrote: »

I'd like to live for 100-year stretches, with 100-year cryogenic sleeps in between, so I'd get to appreciate leaps in development during the breaks, as opposed to not really appreciating them by seeing them gradually occur.
And I'd also like to have the option to die.

every 100 years going forward you would be like the village idiot not able to understand anything around you

Speedwell

I can't answer the poll. At the moment I'm not terribly happy, but I want to be able to live long enough to outlive my problems or discover solutions!

The King of Moo

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

every 100 years going forward you would be like the village idiot not able to understand anything around you

That's grand, that's pretty much how every day is for me anyway.

gifted

I'd like to be able to start again....tell my newer version that life is what you make it and don't worry so much

Tea-a-Maria

No, but I wanna learn how to fly.

FAME!

SEPT 23 1989

gifted wrote: »

I'd like to be able to start again....tell my newer version that life is what you make it and don't worry so much

but would you listen?

gifted

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

but would you listen?

Hell yes....lol lol....

Zillah

Yeah, a trillion trillion years from now I'd love to be floating in an endless void in which all the stars had died and nothing moved or shined ever again. I bet being so bored you go mad ten thousand times over would be great.

(I would accept a thousand year lifespan in an instant, yes)

Kiith

I said yes, but with the assumption that i stay healthy (physically and mentally). It kind of bums me out that i won't get to see what happens to us over the next few thousands of years. Seeing technology change over the past 20 has been interesting, so seeing it over a much longer period of time would be great to see.

smash

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

every 100 years going forward you would be like the village idiot not able to understand anything around you

Unless people gradually get dumber in which case you could be the smartest man alive. Like in that movie, idiocracy!

Wanderer78

Kiith wrote:

I said yes, but with the assumption that i stay healthy (physically and mentally). It kind of bums me out that i won't get to see what happens to us over the next few thousands of years. Seeing technology change over the past 20 has been interesting, so seeing it over a much longer period of time would be great to see.

Can't see the planet making it to the year 3000 so it could be a nasty life!

Knine

I want to live long enough to be able to look after my disabled daughter. I dread the thought's of her having nobody to look out for her when I am gone, especially when you read the horror stories on the news about those residential care centres.

byronbay2

Live forever? Are you fúcking joking? People are living WAAAY too long as it is, not to mind extending life even further. What we need is a "Logan's Run" style end date - not 30 but maybe 80 or so. At that stage, people have done everything they're going to do and the best thing for them is a quick end rather than prolonging it and dragging the arse out of it. Who's with me??

BattleCorp

I think to live forever would be an unimaginable torture.

I can not think of many things more horrific as a concept than eternal life. I am genuinely relieved that people who claim there is such a thing have not a shred of evidence for the claim.

I would certainly personally like - were it my choice - to have a rather significant and lengthy extension to the current life expectancy that faces me however. Maybe a factor of 10 or 100 tops.

seamus

Like others, I think being truly immortal, being required to live forever would eventually become absolute hell. However, having the ability to choose when I die at some indeterminate point in the future, whether that be 100 or 1,000 years from now, would be a nice luxury.

The connundrum of course is that without death trimming the fat and tilling the soil, would humanity cease to evolve socially and technologically? Imagine a planet where backwards sociopaths like Trump and Putin could continue running for and/or holding political offices for hundreds of years. If I had an indefinite amount of time to do what I wanted, would I bother working hard and innovating now, or would I just stick it on the long finger?

failinis

I would be happy with a normal life span with normal health.

Looking at the sci fi side, if I could not age (so not a 150 year old bed ridden) I would add on a few more years, but only if I had a reason. No point staying longer than you are needed, because most people are not needed as it is.

Robsweezie

Don't know whether to start blasting queen or oasis

Aglomerado

Idiocracy is more than likely the future.

So, no.

stuar

A mad scientist by the name of Aubrey de Grey believe's he can someday bring people back from the dead and keep people alive forever.

My personal view of him is that he is a pompous prat with his beard stuck up his arse.

There's a few unanswered questions about this "grey area" of science, if he is in fact right with his theories, and death reversal becomes an everyday occurrence, where will all these re-animated people live?, who will live and who will die?, will humans be divided into "liver's" and "dier's"?

Another company Bioquark Inc has been awarded a licence to carry out experiments on 20 patients in India, these "patients" are actually dead people, it's the first phase of the experiments.

I personally want to die when the Good Lord takes me, whenever and however that will be.


Biotech ‘Lazarus Trial’: Brain Reversal to Bring Dead People Back to Life
http://www.universityherald.com/articles/29777/20160505/biotech-lazarus-trial-brain-reversal-to-bring-dead-people-back-to-life.htm


The Messiah himself, Aubrey de Grey............

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qfwSoJdWsg

imitation

More info is needed

Do I get to be a hawt 20 year old forever or do I eventually have to be wheeled around like a bucket of human sludge.

Can loved ones and pets etc live forever too to or do I have to watch everybody i know die ? Would get pretty traumatic befrieding people and watching them pass on again and again.

What about accidents what if i loose some vital body part, a lot people get caught out in just 70 years, after a few millennium the those accident statistics will catch up on me.

Winterlong

I am happy enough with the cycle of life as it is. That assumes I will live to a decent age and die before I am an invalid or in pain.

I reckon you would get wild bored if you lived for ever. Very little would come along that you have not seen before apart from technology. And even at that you would give up trying to keep up.

Plus, you would need some pension to fund all that extra living!

jackwigan

There can be only one