Immortality - are you ready for it?

[trekkiedane]

Tachyon Shield's How would you die?-thread had me thinking why would you die?

Isn't death just nature not accepting itself? The universe (as we know it) was born in 'fire' and will die in 'ice' -but it'll live for aeons.

Why should we accept anything less?

Technology (knowledge about vitamins, bacteria, blood-chemistry and whatnot) has already more than doubled our life-span and there is no reason why technology shouldn't allow us to live even longer: pigs could be make to grow organs that could be used in human implantation; a heart, liver, whatever, to fit just the patients needing these. In vitro organs might become the next big thing.

It isn't imperceptible that we will find technologies enabling us to live as long as we might want to.

SciFi-fans are the perfect people to ask, so this is what I do: would you like to live till the universe ends?

 

[Miss Chicken]

No, I think that if you lived that long life would eventually become very boring.

I would like to live a lot longer than I will however so I choose 400-800 years.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Hell yes i'd live forever if I could, I do NOT want to die ever. Even when the Earth is long gone we've probably colonised other worlds if I live long enough.

Roll on immortality!

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Nature decays, people age, I will eventually die. It is the way of all things.

Zion Ravescene, on the other hand, is forever.

 

[Gertch]

I wouldn't mind sticking around for a couple hundred years if only to see what happens to us as a species. But eventually I'd want to go to the next plain.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

500 years would be my ideal lifespan.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

It's always shocked me just how many people are happy to one day die, sometimes I think i'm the only one who wants to live forever, I think i'm the only one who's afraid of dying.

 

[ShamelessMcBundy]

I'm not afraid of dying, i just know that one day i will die.

 

[Miss Chicken]

It's always shocked me just how many people are happy to one day die, sometimes I think i'm the only one who wants to live forever, I think i'm the only one who's afraid of dying.

I am afraid of dying but the idea of living forever scares me even more.

 

[trekkiedane]

No, I think that if you lived that long life would eventually become very boring.

I would like to live a lot longer than I will however so I choose 400-800 years.

Your argument, as I read it, would fit the 'until I've had enough of life'-category.

Hell yes i'd live forever if I could, I do NOT want to die ever. Even when the Earth is long gone we've probably colonised other worlds if I live long enough.

Roll on immortality!

-my choice too; I'd love to experience the universe.

Nature decays, people age, I will eventually die. It is the way of all things.

True, not even the universe is 'forever'.

Zion Ravescene, on the other hand, is forever.

So, would you like your mind-state to be preserved/transfered to another substrate for 'eternity' after your body's death?

I wouldn't mind sticking around for a couple hundred years if only to see what happens to us as a species. But eventually I'd want to go to the next plain.

"Plane" is what I suppose you actually think; would that be the actual nothingness, or some -perhaps artificially created- different 'plane'?

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Zion Ravescene, on the other hand, is forever.

So, would you like your mind-state to be preserved/transfered to another substrate for 'eternity' after your body's death?

Oh, no - I'd just allocate a successor.... Simon Cowell-style of course.

 

[Goji]

There is no way I'd want to exist forever in any capacity. Hell, I'm only 21 now and I still can't believe how much I've got left to go in my normal life expectancy.

 

[trekkiedane]

It's always shocked me just how many people are happy to one day die, sometimes I think i'm the only one who wants to live forever, I think i'm the only one who's afraid of dying.

I am VERY afraid of dying -but I'm not afraid of death - experiencing the transition from being to 'not being' terrifies me, bot 'not being' is just that: not experiencing anything.

I am afraid of dying but the idea of living forever scares me even more.

Me too! -I'd preserve the right to end existence on my own terms!

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I am VERY afraid of dying -but I'm not afraid of death - experiencing the transition from being to 'not being' terrifies me, bot 'not being' is just that: not experiencing anything.

well that's what I mean, obviously if i'm dead i'm not afraid because I can't feel anything. It's the thought of becoming 'nothing' that scares me. I want to experience EVERYTHING, I don't want to cease to exist because there's no coming back from that, once you're dead you're dead.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Your argument, as I read it, would fit the 'until I've had enough of life'-category.

Not really because I think it would be hard to determine when I have had enough. I might feel that I want to die but it might only be a phase I am going though. A more finite lifespan would suit me more. I think a person would get more accomplished if they had a time limit.

I did say 400-800 years but I think 1000-2000 years would be more suitable.

 

[Rÿcher]

It's tough to say. I want to see tomorrow and I have the feeling when I'm ready to call it quits, there's going to be something that'll pique my interests like some new piece of technology or some new breakthrough that I want to see through to its fruition.

You know, I'm ready to off myself and on the news that night, they report they just discovered a lush world in the depths of space and they're signing up people to colonize this new planet.

Or...

They just found the means to communicate telepathically or shed our corporeal forms and exist as pure energy.

 

[trekkiedane]

Your argument, as I read it, would fit the 'until I've had enough of life'-category.

Not really because I think it would be hard to determine when I have had enough. I might feel that I want to die but it might only be a phase I am going though. A more finite lifespan would suit me more. I think a person would get more accomplished if they had a time limit.

I did say 400-800 years but I think 1000-2000 years would be more suitable.

The 4 to 8 option I actually only meant to mean something like that. The actual numbers I chose to be a 'very long time that just isn't forever' option.

Now, knowing this, would you like to be put into 'stasis' and then live for a short period of time every now and then?
As in: Stasis for 99 years life for 1 year - repeat - repeat - repeat…

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

As long as current tech will allow me to last.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I have always been concerned that the best movie of all or the book I would have enjoyed the most will be released the day after my death.

 

[Gertch]

I wouldn't mind sticking around for a couple hundred years if only to see what happens to us as a species. But eventually I'd want to go to the next plain.

"Plane" is what I suppose you actually think; would that be the actual nothingness, or some -perhaps artificially created- different 'plane'?

It's a wondrous place. Full of love and light. Whichever one gets there first gives the other the royal tour, agreed?