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.
Would you want to live forever?
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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.