If you could live forever would you?

AMKC

Do you think you would enjoy it or maybe end up going mad?

Saipanne

To exist/live in the heat death of the universe would be worse than hell.

Timberrrrrrrr

I would love to so I can watch the world evolve but I would hate to see loved ones grow old and die.

Ericdravancrow

Need to throw in a youthful age and good health... image if you stayed old, sick, impotent, wheelchair bound.... foreveeeeeeeeeeeeeer

Doom Chicken

Think of the History book you could write

Winterlong

The world would be so lucky to have me around for more than 1 lifetime.

Cina

I find it pretty hard to live one lifetime, so .. no.

Although it is quite sad knowing we'll likely all be gone before humans ascend into space..

.. or obliterate ourselves.

No absolutely not, I have a very enjoyable life and I would like to think I will have grandchildren, but after that what would be the point of hanging around here for ever and ever.

the evasion_kid

Not a hope....I'm looking forward to death

Deub

Yes. So i have a chance to see the Event center being built in Cork.

RobertKK

Yes, and as technology improves, I become more and more bionic and just need WD-40 to grease the joints.

StupidLikeAFox

You'd eventually end up like Jay out of the inbetweeners

Year 2125: "Lionel Messi? Used to have kickarounds in the park with him mate"

jimgoose

"I want more life, Father!!" said Mr. Batty, famously. I quite like the idea of hanging around for millions, even billions, of years, just to see what goes on. But not in my current extremely limited form. If I could do some sort of a Dave Bowman/HAL/Star Child and evolve beyond current human form and travel the galaxies at incredible speed at will, then hell yeah! :cool:

GavRedKing

Only if I could live on the dole for the end of time.

AMKC

jimgoose wrote: »

"I want more life, Father!!" said Mr. Batty, famously. I quite like the idea of hanging around for millions, even billions, of years, just to see what goes on. But not in my current extremely limited form. If I could do some sort of a Dave Bowman/HAL/Star Child and evolve beyond current human form and travel the galaxies at incredible speed at will, then hell yeah! :cool:

Or be like Q from Star Trek be omnipotent and very powerful but not immortal so if after a million or a billions years you had enough and wanted to die you could.

jimgoose

AMKC wrote: »

Or be like Q from Star Trek be omnipotent and very powerful but not immortal so if after a million or a billions years you had enough and wanted to die you could.

Oh yes, that fella. He's an even bigger prick than Bowerick Wowbagger. :pac::pac::pac:

podgemonster

GavRedKing wrote: »

Only if I could live on the dole for the end of time.

Well you eventually would be getting a pension and you could just claim that until the state funding the pension scheme is obliterated by Space Nazis or the Chinese.

Dyr

You know that queen song where freddie mercury hits the high notes on "whoooo waaants to liiiiiiiiivee foreveeeeerr"

Mentally I go " I doooooo" in a soft falsetto

**** yes I would, you'd see all your loved ones die but they'll have kids, you'd see how it all progresses. i think things are gonna get really interesting in the near future and I'm gonna miss it all

westcoast66

The thought of it would be terrifying.

Imagine knowing that you would be spending eternity floating around in space long after the earth has gone.

kowloon

Bambi wrote: »

You know that queen song where freddie mercury hits the high notes on "whoooo waaants to liiiiiiiiivee foreveeeeerr"

But love must die...

RobertKK

westcoast66 wrote: »

The thought of it would be terrifying.

Imagine knowing that you would be spending eternity floating around in space long after the earth has gone.

We will be living on exoplanets by the time Earth is gone, we will be star trekking across the universe.

Turtyturd

Would there be people trying to cut my head off?

The_Valeyard

Be grand if you could save and store a copy of your life, then format yourself and Start again.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Of course not.

AMKC

AMKC wrote: »

Or be like Q from Star Trek be omnipotent

Hey! Leave Jim's personal problems out of this!

BoJack Horseman

I want to see Liverpool win the EPL.

So, yes, but more out of necessity than desire.

pragmatic1

The thought of it used to terrify me as a child. I'd hate to live forever. Death is a gift.

lawlolawl

I'd love to live forever as some sort of God-King, all powerful type thing.

Just being some dude who can't die would be lame.

jimgoose

Candie wrote: »

Hey! Leave Jim's personal problems out of this!

Don't imagine you're too far away from me for a Cosmic Kick-up-the-hole, young lady!!

CINCLANTFLT

Forever is a very long time... on a clear day you can see forever...

jimgoose

CINCLANTFLT wrote: »

Forever is a very long time... on a clear day you can see forever...

"Forever is our today,
Who waits forever anyway?"

The flying mouse

Yea I would, I would love to be one of them vampires in that movie, An interview with a vampire, the only drawback is you cant go to the beach in the daytime.

CINCLANTFLT

The flying mouse wrote: »

Yea I would, I would love to be one of them vampires in that movie, An interview with a vampire, the only drawback is you cant go to the beach in the daytime.

Factor 40 all over... don't forget the backs of your knees!!!

wakka12

Living forever sounds like hell. Society cannot function properly without the cycle of life and death. Need to make space for new humans. Id love to see how the future is in a thousand years but oh well. Its not our time.

zSparc

I'd end up going mad. Sure I'm not even 40 yet and most of things drive me crazy: the Kardashians madness, celebrity cult, new music is sh1te, new movies rarely have any value in them, just special effects... No, I am looking forward to die some day.

Junkyard Tom

Will there be tea and sandwiches laid on?

aaronjumper

Only if I could end it when I've lost interest.
Floating around an empty void after the last star dies sounds boring and endlessly suffocating probably wouldn't be great fun either.

RobertKK wrote: »

star trekking across the universe.

"Only going forward coz we still can't find reverse!"

faceman

The thoughts of living forever is terrifying. Life never ending. Fook that!

Although someone once tried to explain to me the difference between infinity and eternity (in that eternity is better than infinity) but I was having too much of an anxiety attack to listen properly.

What would the retirement age be if you lived forever? Would we still have a pension crisis?

CINCLANTFLT

A Sci fi story I read a few years ago gave a scary angle on this... I don't have the full story to hand, but this just about covers it... http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/82593/women-immortal-from-nanotechnology-sees-end-of-earth

LordSutch

No, you'd be too lonely if everybody else around you kept dying, century after century ....

You live your life, then you die, as you pass the 'baton' to the next generation.

JupiterKid

No, I think anyone who would live beyond, say, 200 would go insane.

Esel

Fuppin' sure I would!

Estrellita

No, I would not want to live forever. For many reasons, but one of which is technology in the home and every day life. I was born in the seventies and life seem so much simpler. I've teenage children now and neither one actually owns a phone. There is one they can use (a basic dial and text) if they needed to use it, but they don't. I don't allow gaming to take over their free time, so while they have an Xbox and a PlayStation they are currently in the attic. While that may seem harsh, they are allowed use them (a little on holidays). It's well worth pulling the plug on children's technology because what naturally happens next is what they are supposed to be doing, getting outside into the fresh air playing football or reading a good book.

Whenever I'm out I often see the same sight with young families. They are out to have some dinner, and while they wait the toddler gets handed a phone or tablet to watch something (normally very noisy). God forbid the parents should interact with the child.

I never wanted to live in a world where technology took over human interaction to such a degree, so I know I'd hate the future. Give me another 40 years and I'm checking out.

bgr123

Only if my buddies can as well.

TeaBagMania

not sure id want to be here when the asteroid hits