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If given the chance, would you want to become immortal?

no. Living forever would get boring, and everyone you knew would die off and I think you'd just get tired of living. It's much better to live your life at it's fullest and die knowing you're going to heaven.

No! It would be so sad to watch how all that I love die. And it would be so boring. I will try all the things I could do but after some time it'll get boring and then I wouldn't have anything to do. I will spend me life in misery....

Nope Never.Same reason as of above two.

no i wouldent it would take away the excitement of living because you would know it would never end

Same here.

thats not why i dont want to live forever i dont beleave in him i just think it will bring all the excitement in liveing out

Amber said: " No, I would want to meet God sooner or later "

same here .. :)
and there wouldn't be much fun left for you to enjoy , because by then, you would have experienced everything

Yes. To be honest, the idea of death really scares me, and I'm always afraid of not having enough time and I don't think I could ever get tired of life. Maybe if I actually was immortal, I would hate it, but right now, it sounds good.

What comes after death is even better

yeah exacly...

That's true.

it depends, do i get to be a spoiled poodle?

NEVER...eternal life is just a crap.
it's better to die than see your love ones dying before u

Jonathan Swift, in Gulliver's travels, addresses this when he comes across a place that has random people born immortal. Eventually they become idiots because their brains can no longer retain day to day memories... I think, its been a while since I read it. The point was, if a child was born with the birthmark of an immortal, the family grieved.

My view on living forever is that I WOULD if it meant I was continually productive. But looking at myself now at 54, with my body falling apart, I don't see how that could be. Also, I've had loved ones die away from me and I don't think I could take that heartache forever.

ON life after death, here is my view: either there is life after death, which includes the reward of heaven, which is great, OR there is nothingness and the end of cognition. If there is nothingness, we won't be able to perceive it so it won't matter.

No. All my friends and family will eventually die. I don't like seeing people die, so...Also it would get kinda boring...And if you're not aging, I would stay as a teen...not able to get married, have kids, and that stuff. And how am I supposed to pay bills stuff like that? My parents do that. I wouldn't be able to do that kind of stuff because I'm not old enough. So yeah. Being immortal is just full of bullshit :)

Nope. =)

In the words of a song, "Do you really wanna live forever?" -Forever Young

Yes, if I was immortal I could spend so much time finding cures for differint disseases and mental disabilities

Makaylia wrote: "No, but then again if your spirit is foever living, then isnt everyone technically immortal?"

why do you mean by "the spirit is forever living"? I don't understand. what exactly is the spirit? and in what way does it live forever?

Amber *Jace and Clary* wrote: "No, I would want to meet God sooner or later"

Yes yes yes!! can't wait!

I would never want to live forever because sooner or later every one and every thing you love would slip away from you and you would be alone

John wrote: "Jonathan Swift, in Gulliver's travels, addresses this when he comes across a place that has random people born immortal. Eventually they become idiots because their brains can no longer retain day ..."

considering the second possibility, of nothingness after death, wouldn't it be unfair to live such a complicate life, with struggle and heartache, just to reach nothing? :(

:c

Yes, but I wouldn't want everyone to be immortal.

I said yes to if everyone was immortal, would you want to be immortal then. But I wouldn't want everyone to be immortal. I don't think. Maybe.

Would it be like living forever like in Torchwood Mircle Day immortal because that would suck

No i wouldnt want to live forever and see everyone around me dying and if we all lived forever there world be too over populated and world issues would increase dramatically.

You couldn't technically live forever because the Earth would reach its carrying capacity for humans after the exponential growth with no fatalities.

Yesterday, I would have answered yes without hesitation. I'm terrified of death, because what if there's nothing after that? And what if there's something and it is not life?
But (and it's stupid) today, I read Clockwork Princess, and I'm not so sure anymore. Losing everyone you love, having to live knowing you see things your loved ones will never see, things they could never have imagined, even... The mere idea of it is torture.

Wow. You're right. You would always be tortured by memories of them and what they would have thought of the future.

I wouldn't want to live forever because I want to live with God. That's much better than living here.

No. I actually want to die before 60. I just don't think it'll be convenient for me if I'll live longer, and worse, forever.

No. What would be the point of living if you never died? Plus, everyone you loved would die. But I suppose you would start living a life like Magnus Bane. ;)

I wouldn't want to live forever I would just live on as every one I cared about dies that would be to much to bare after a wile

H99 wrote: "Almira wrote: "No. I actually want to die before 60. I just don't think it'll be convenient for me if I'll live longer, and worse, forever."

Why? Many people are healthy at 60, or 70. Even 90 or 100."

I don't think I'll be healthy since I've always had a poor health and I don't do anything about it *_*
Maybe if one day I woke up and just so suddenly decided that I shall do something about my health, I'd expect to extend 20 years.

I want to live to 100.

I would love to live forever. To see the advancements of our human race, be able to experience interstellar space travel into the unknown...personally, I am upset thinking I won't be able to experience this in my own life. Immortality is the only way I would be able to see what our species amounts to.

Billy wrote: "I would love to live forever. To see the advancements of our human race, be able to experience interstellar space travel into the unknown...personally, I am upset thinking I won't be able to experi..."

I guess it's about what you believe. Heaven is supposed to be an infinite amount of times better than Earth, and it makes Earth look like hell in comparison. Plus, there's no pain and no suffering! Just peace! I personally think that might be better in the end. And if you lived forever, you'd have to experience the end of the world. And if you couldn't be killed, then you would have nowhere to live, just floating in space knowing that Earth is completely and totally destroyed and the entire human race gone and dead. And then there's also the thing that everyone you knew would die eventually. That would happen time and time again, so much so that you would probably never be able to attach yourself to anybody for fear of them being taken from you oh so quick. Because 100 years would seem not long after about 500 of them.

Marie wrote: "Billy wrote: "I would love to live forever. To see the advancements of our human race, be able to experience interstellar space travel into the unknown...personally, I am upset thinking I won't be ..."

I know heaven may be an amazing place, but so is our universe...the human race has only seen 0.00000000001% of the universe (if that much), who knows what lies out there? I would love to be able to see that. As humans, we have no idea what is out there....we don't even know much about the deep oceans on our own planet. Being immortal would let me gain so much knowledge...and knowledge and happiness are really the only things that motivate us to live.

And in our life today, we lose loved ones all the time. We lose friends, family....I dont see how being immortal would make it any worse. If I would immortal, I would be able to meet so many more people, and experience life without restrictions.

Billy wrote: "Marie wrote: "Billy wrote: "I would love to live forever. To see the advancements of our human race, be able to experience interstellar space travel into the unknown...personally, I am upset think..."

Well you could watch all of that from heaven! And as Dellis said: "Losing everyone you love, having to live knowing you see things your loved ones will never see, things they could never have imagined, even... The mere idea of it is torture." I think you would be so completely depressed all the time because you would have your memories of the dozens of people you met who you had been good friends with and would always be thinking, "What would they have thought of this?" or, "They would have loved this." You would lose soooo many people who you wished you could take with you further into the future and keep them alive. This would happen so often you would have attachment issues, never wanting to get to know someone for fearing of losing them "so soon", even though it might be 100 years, that gap of time would feel like a fraction of it to you because of how long you have been alive already. You would lose all the people you lose in one life, but times 10 or more. You'd also start forgetting so much about your early life or people you knew in your first 200 years or so, and that would pain you because you would feel like you were dishonoring their names by not remembering them, you being the only one who remembers them anymore.

Marie wrote: "Billy wrote: "Marie wrote: "Billy wrote: "I would love to live forever. To see the advancements of our human race, be able to experience interstellar space travel into the unknown...personally, I ..."

I guess to a point, I would miss alot of people. But the sheer fact that I would experience the human race, space travel, and almost infinite knowledge would really override my sadness. Not to mention the interactions with other humans for the rest of time, may help my sadness of missing loved ones. Really no different to how things are today.

And I dont think I would start losing my memories of people...the human brain can hold so much information...I would bet that most of my memories would be stored somewhere.

Another point is, being immortal, I would single-handedly hold so much history in my brain. To this day, humans try to piece together the past and things that happened. Can you imagine the clear understanding of the world we would have if there was somebody around for the last 20,000 years? Our view of the past may be completely different if somebody was able to give a first-hand point of view.

In the future, I could be this guy. I would be able to educate people about the past while I experience the future...it would be amazing.

Billy wrote: "Marie wrote: "Billy wrote: "Marie wrote: "Billy wrote: "I would love to live forever. To see the advancements of our human race, be able to experience interstellar space travel into the unknown....."

Well think about it. When people are 80, they don't remember things as well from when they were 20, but they do remember better when they were in their 60's. It already happens today. And yes that is true, but the only reason we are trying to piece together the past is because we weren't advanced enough to keep good records. Now, with the Internet, and our much better methods of recording what happens, that wouldn't happen anymore. And part of the beauty of the human race is passing down stories from generation, to generation, to generation. "Your great-great-great-great grandmother did this..." and reflecting about that person and the time they lived in, that is a beauty that would be changed.

I wouldn't want to live forever, because (I assume everyone else around me would be mortal) it would suck to love people and watch them die, and then get over it only to love new people, then watch them die.

@Lo That's exactly what I thought.

Lia wrote: "I wouldn't either. The idea of being reborn several times appeals to me though."

I hope reincarnation is true...

Me too

YES i wud want to live forevr, like a vamp!.

hahaha

nah i just wanna see what the future is like.

If say i was a vampire-thing then measly human limitations do not apply to me, and i wudnt have to worry about things like 'going to college' or 'getting a degree' or whatevr since i know that i have many lifetimes worth to get those things done.

The year is 2014...and I still don't want to live forever.

Not if I'm the only one and I have to watch everyone else that I know and love die.