Would you want to live forever?

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Lets say they had a new formula which let you live forever. Would you take this? Would you be willing to live forever? Do you want to die a timely death? Some of you would say you want to stay mortal. Some would want to live forever since you fear death. Some of you would only live forever with certien conditions like your parents stayed with you or a lover or your friend or whatever. If you pick the third choice please explain your conditions.

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Only if (name conditions) 43
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  • KnightNigelWellingtonXXI
    11 years ago | pl

    Yes. As long as I stayed young and had the option to die whenever I wanted to.

    Signed,
    Knight Nigel Wellington XXI

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    • NeuroNeptunian
      11 years ago

      This.
      My biggest worry when it comes to time is my youth and fertility. If I didn't have to worry about how long I could wait until it's impossible or horribly difficult to have kids and I could take my time for college and my career then I'd be set. After I've done everything I want to do and seen everything I want to see, I'd like to have the option to check out of this world.

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    • Store210
      11 years ago

      That, was a stroke of genius my friend

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  • wigsplitz
    11 years ago | pl

    Yes. Conditions: unlimited free shrimp and 2 haircuts per year courtesy of Supercuts.

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    • shuggy-chan
      11 years ago

      My only condition is that I get to live with a wiggy and share my immortality with that hot mama

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  • bigmouthstrikesagainn
    11 years ago | pl

    No, because I think you will eventually really get bored of life.

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  • disthing
    11 years ago

    I would live forever, as long as I maintained my youth (I wouldn't want to gradually melt into a wrinkly sack of skin and hair with some organs underneath).

    Also as long as I could kill myself if it all got too much.

    As much as the trauma of losing everyone I love would be upsetting (presuming they don't live forever too), I think eventually I'd come to terms with it philosophically. I mean, imagine all the incredible people you would get to meet that you otherwise would never have done? Imagine all the amazing experiences and opportunities that would never have arisen in your ordinary life-time? Imagine how much you could LEARN? The wisdom would be beautiful.

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  • forever_anon
    11 years ago

    Sometimes I think I would like to have one more life, just as a "do-over" for all the mistakes I've made in this one, but I would not want to live forever. Eventually that would get boring.

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  • DADNSCAL
    11 years ago

    I think I'd get tired of living after a while. Age gracefully and go out in peace.

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  • AppleMind
    11 years ago

    I love that more people answered no than yes. I love humanity :)

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    • dom180
      11 years ago

      Do you think not wanting to live forever makes you a better person? Why?

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      • AppleMind
        11 years ago

        I believe that if someone wants to be immortal they haven't thought it through. If you answered no then it shows you've at least given it some thought.

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        • dom180
          11 years ago

          It isn't an issue of morality; it's an issue of personal choice. I don't see what is immoral about wanting to live forever.

          I also don't see how voting "no" shows you have thought about it any more than voting "yes" does. "Yes" isn't the answer people necessarily default to. You shouldn't presume that just because people don't agree with you they might not have thought it through properly.

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          • AppleMind
            11 years ago

            Once we get past the superficial idea of living forever what is the benefit to not dying?

            Did you mean immortality? I didn't mention morality

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            • Anonymous Post Author
              11 years ago

              What is superficial about wanting to live forever. All creatures are driven to try and survive. Wanting to die and choosing to die is something not many creatures can choose.

              Are you saying that wanting to survive is less human of us? Why we created doctors for the survival of humanity. In a way its all just a way to survive. Wanting to die is one of the most unnatural things in the world.

              It is like saying humans are bad for having a sex drive or for wanting to eat. Now who that sex drive is directed at is debatable but having one is not this unnatural thing.

              Some things we have to deal with. Like the simple curse of eating food. Unlike plants we can not produce our own. Though at the same we are not being munched on. So maybe we got the better end of the stick on this one.

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            • dom180
              11 years ago

              Oh, sorry :P You're quite right, I misread "immortality" as "immorality". Forget I mentioned that.

              I don't think the benefits of living forever are superficial at all. Just read disthing's comment. You could learn so much, and have so much wisdom and experience. Think of all the millions of people you could help with that knowledge and wisdom, even if it was at the cost of your own happiness (which I don't believe it necessarily would be). Nothing superficial about that.

              But apart from those benefits of staying alive, I have a biological drive to not die. Death is very scary and I don't believe there is anything on the other side. It's permanent. If I didn't see any benefits to not dying I'd probably kill myself, but it seems very obvious to me that there are many benefits.

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            • Anonymous Post Author
              11 years ago

              I love your name. Makes me think of fresh produce.

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  • Gumball
    11 years ago

    Live to be old, happy, and healthy, yes. To live forever, no. Conditions that may make me willing would be to make my loved ones immortal. Living in each era would be tiring, with all the ups and downs and seeing others go by. I would disintegrate physically and mentally.

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  • Eveyana
    11 years ago

    My mother passed away when I was 10. I had an estranged father who passed away when I was about 22. I'm not very close to my family and I have no friends. I now have symptoms of abdominal cancer (I hope it's only a false alarm) and death terrifies me. I wouldn't say I've been a perfect person either and my relationship with God has been tenuous at best. I do, however, have a husband who loves me (even though he's not exactly Don Juan) and cares about me very much so I am blessed.

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  • bumblecreek
    11 years ago

    Absolutely no. Outliving all of my family and friends, seeing the extinction of humans and the evolution into new creatures, plus I wouldn't remember a thing from my life after a while and get really bored with living.

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  • reindeer
    11 years ago

    No. Death is a part of life.

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  • hidden_in_the_shadows
    11 years ago

    life stucks i could only put up with it for so long and plus everyone you love will die

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  • GuessWho
    11 years ago

    Sure. There's so much that I could do if my time was unlimited.

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  • heyitsmeteeheehee
    11 years ago

    I'd live forever, it's better living and doing so many things, travel, family, friends ect then dieing and doing absoloutly nothing at all you can't think, move. But maybe dieing is like when we weren't born, nobody no's what we were doing when we were unborn so maybe that's the feeling will get when we die. Also if everyone choose the option to live forever, others getting born into the world, which means It would be over populated and cramped.

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  • searchingnow
    11 years ago

    I'd get over the people. I wouldn't want to live forever because eventually I would get trapped somewhere, forever. And what would happen if the Earth was destroyed somehow? I'd like to live a long time, though. But not forever.

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  • SangoNyappy
    11 years ago

    Maybe. I wouldn't mind outliving my family because I fucking hate them but I'd be sad for outliving my best friends. But I really want to see the future it could be interesting and I could also visit countries I've always wanted to but never had time to do so.

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  • evilduckling
    11 years ago

    pretty sure i'd get sick of it after 100 years.

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  • squeallikeasacofpigs
    11 years ago

    This reminds me of the film In Time.

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  • ToxicCrayons
    11 years ago

    Yes, if I my biological age freezes at 25 and I am able to kill myself whenever I want to die.

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  • KaffeInjection
    11 years ago

    No...

    1. Living forever?... Would make you insane one day or another?.. LOCKED up FOREVER?

    2. After trying possibly everything there was to try here on earth, whats next?... Oh wait, just because i would live forever doesn't mean i get everything in the world right?.. Even more no.

    3. Unless i could become some future super space exploration guy.. Well, still no.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      You learn how to control peoples actions using words and make yourself king of a new world! Just like dr.horrible or Kira from deathnote.

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  • StinkyPoo
    11 years ago

    Too many people hate themselves to want eternal life. I want to live forever, in God's Heaven. There is more than this, I am 100% positive. Death is not natural, it
    is a curse.

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  • Evil_Rebel
    8 years ago

    Yeah, because I want to be young and immortal forever and could die when ever I want to. It's not that I fear death, I could murder myself anytime. What's the point of death if you could live forever and choose to die at anytime? I would want to learn how the universe began as to what we now call "living" and "death". What comes after what we now call "death"? Hell nor Heaven, none is real.

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  • TheMasterOfGTA89
    9 years ago

    I would want to live as long as the quality of my life is free from a chronic, incurable, painful disease. Life without pain is wonderful. A painful protracted life without hope of improvement is not a value to be had.

    Life is the ultimate value for which we do anything worthy from the second we wake up in the morning. If we can continue being creative, productive, curious about what is out there in the universe, there isn't enough time in man's life to do it all, no matter how long it takes. If genetic engineering can replace diseased organs with brand new ones, I would want to live as long as I am interested in learning and discovering about this amazing biological phenomenon of the universe which we call "life."

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  • GoraIntoDesiGals
    11 years ago

    No unless I'm very rich and can have sex with young girls forever.

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  • dom180
    11 years ago

    Yes, on the condition I could choose to kill myself if it all got too much. That would mean I could still choose to live a normal length life if I wanted. Why would I deprive myself of the free choice of when to die?

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  • dodongos
    11 years ago

    Yes.

    I want to live history. Not just a lifetime of it, but the entire duration of mankind. I love the history and accomplishments of humans, and I would do anything to see everything that has and will ever happen to the race.

    But only if I could be a mega-action-super-turbo-laser-destructo-mecha-bot.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      Yes and the perfectly functioning electronic ass japan made.

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  • Faceless
    11 years ago

    No, I just stick to enjoying the song. Oasis rocks.

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  • q25t
    11 years ago

    Sure. I'm all for the transhumanism movement. There are far too many things I want to do to have only 70 or so years. I'd need several hundred with what I have planned now.

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