If you could live forever, would you?

Human life expectancy continues to increase. Medicine and genetics will eventually allow us to live twice as long as we do now. If the human race last long enough, I have little doubt that technology will even give us thousands of years of life. But the holy grail, what all of this research and development may finally one day achieve, is immortality.

So I pose the following question: if you could live forever, would you? If there were a big red button in front of you, which if you pressed, you'd be immortal, would you press it? For me, without a question or shadow of a doubt, I'd press it in a heart beat.

That's a tough question to ask me. I guess it comes down to, I'd press it, but I'd feel strongly remorseful afterward. I have my reasons my pressing it, seeing the world for a **** long time, living in the same place I've loved for centuries, but it's also mixed in with why I wouldn't want to live forever. Sure, I might not have so much things to do in this lifetime that I'd like to do one day, but when that certain time comes, the time when you realize, "What else do I have left to live for?", you don't really have much choice.


Relate life to what it is now, under the assumption nothing bad happens to you. Your life, RIGHT NOW, could be considered forever, 'cause it's gonna be a hell of a long time before it's up (again, under that assumption), you'll make the same choices, and keep relying on the present, therefore resulting in error and wishing you'd press the button. But when you do that, you could say you will eventually get bored of immortality, was it?

I think everyone has a time, and the choices you make influence your next choice whatever the hell it may be. But I'll be extremely selfish (wrong word in this context ) and press that red button.

PS: I don't think it's worth living for eternity so I sorta did this post on the button extending your life, but you can see it conflicts with the idea of immortality a bit more often than I'd like.

If it made me imortal? No.
If I just lived like Edward Cullen then yes.

The problem with longger human life is the use of rescources and space.

If suddenly everyone lived to 200, the worlds populations would skyrocket past it's current skyrocket.

Last time I checked, the earth could support quite a bit. Though there is really no solid statistic, it's been said it can be as high as 16 billion. Anyways, that aside, if I could live forever, I probably would, but it would have to be the real deal. What I mean by that is that science is also working on ways to just preserve the brain rather than just the body. But, perhaps if you could keep your body and your brain, or have a shell for your brain, then I would be interested. I would like to stick around to see things that no other person has seen before. I could say "I was there..." or "I remember this thing happening in my lifetime." I'd love to see all the technological advances and news things that came about. The only downside is that I'd have to see the bad as well. Societal ills might still exist and conflicts and wars might happen. Who knows if World War III would end up happening for some reason or another. Whether or not it would be worth it, I don't know. But in the end, I think I would really want to live forever, come what may, and see what becomes of this world we live on.

I would live forever in the way that old age and disease won't kill me, but I can still be murdered or killed by whatever.

That means I don't have to suffer eternal torture should the Earth ever explode and I'm in space.

Imagine all the runescape you could play.

Tricky question, isn't?

Let's say, living forever would be a total nightmare for me. Not because I'm a depressed emo who hates life and everything in the world. I just believe that what makes life so special is that you only have one shot at it. You only live a long and epic -sometimes awkward- journey where you learn to know about yourself. And at the end you say ''God that went so fast.''. Afterwhile, you realise there is an unknown fate after your death. I mean, do you reincarnate, go to heaven, whatsoever? It's a mystery. And spiritually never have the chance to ''know'' the answer to that mystery would be sad.

However, I admit that being immortal would be pretty badass for a time being. You would live for at least 5 centuaries and say ''Yeah I lived for the last 500 years, I learned alot'', but then will come the time when you'll say ''And now what? Am I bound to live this routine forever?''
Yes, you are. Living forever become boring after a while.
And before the next 100 years, you'll have nobody you know now, they're all gonna be dead. Imagine your existance without those you care about.
You'll become a mentally old man/woman with no life, no children, no friends, no family. That's a pretty unpleasant destiny.

No, I would not want to live forever, because I'd die of boredom

Part of me says: yes
But it also asks if this slows down the ageing process? if it does than yes again.

but then another part of me says no.

we werent made to live forever. i would want to die at some point. there is only so much you can do in life. having an everlasting life would get boring after doing everything.


i would like to see the aging process slowed down so you can enjoy the younger years more.. and possibly even watch your grandkids grow up more. but i dont want to live forever. It just wouldnt be right.

I'd imagine Runescape wouldn't exist at a certain point. That point being the moment we'd all kill ourselves. xD