Would you want to live forever?

[JoeClark]

If you were given the chance to live forever—never age, never die—would you take it?

Why or why not?

Do you think immortality would be a blessing or a curse?

[Orion84]

God, no.

Immortality would be an absolute nightmare. Just imagine watching everyone you know and love grow old and die. Never forming relationships with other people again, because it would just happen to, them, too. Their lives are but a blink compared to your own.

Then, after enough time, humanity begins to evolve without you. Imagine a proto-hominid being alive today. They wouldn't fit in; they're not even the same species, anymore. They'd be dull, slow witted, clumsy, an object of ridicule and study.

That would be you, after humanity moves beyond what you are, now. You'd become a relic of a previous age. Human intelligence increases with each new generation, so eventually you'd just appear completely stupid next to everyone else.

Then, what happens in the event of a disaster? Nuclear war wipes out all humans, and most of nature. You'd be the only intelligent survivor in a world of cockroaches. What if you get trapped somewhere? Buried under a lava flow, or stuck in a canyon? You can't get free, and nobody can find you. Imagine what a living hell that would be, stuck there for eternity.

What about when the sun goes nova? The Earth will be destroyed, and assuming you didn't get pulled into the sun's gravity to spend the rest of existence within its dying core, you instead spend eons floating helplessly through the frozen emptiness of space.

No thank you. I'm looking forward to death.

[JoeClark]

What if not only you, but other humans will also have eternal life?

[aaron13547]

I think we already do live forever. We just don't remember who we were before we woke up. Because we don't remember who we were and what we were doing before we woke up we don't worry about what will happen when we die... proof is going to be in how everyone says no to this. To live forever would mean to be responsible for all that is and no body wants that much responsibility. In my opinion that's why we don't know who or what God is, no human can handle that much responsibility as to see we are all a part of the divine creation itself doing something right "now"

[Amber667]

No definitely not, living forever would just mean watching everyone you love die over and over

[JoeClark]

What if the people you love could live forever with you?

[strateguy632]

No way! ! life is awful. Reference film https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mr_nobody

[seeyounexttuesday]

Nope. Imagine the heartbreak of continually watching people you love die. Forever

[JoeClark]

What if not only you, but other humans will also have eternal life?

[seeyounexttuesday]

Then we would run out of resources quickly.

[In_Trance]

No not on this shit show of a planet

[sean1234]

Sure, as long as Jesus is king.

[jshm2]

No, nothing mortal can live forever.

[dreamstar72]

Sure if we stop aging and we had money.

[EmmaMary]

No thank you.