Would you want to live forever?

Hey Ladi · 02-08-2003, 12:49 AM

Suppose you were made invincable? Like Highlander or a Vampire, would you want to live forever?

It might be cool I think, you could do all the things you wanted to try out, be an artist, a musician, a Hell's Angel, and just do it over & over till you get it right. I might be tough watching everyone you meet grow old & die, but you could meet new ones.

Kim · 02-08-2003, 12:52 AM

No I don't think I would...

The Jays · 02-08-2003, 12:52 AM

... nope. Eventually I would do everything and get bored. And then the Sun would eventually swallow the Earth, and I'd have to move to a real shitty planet.

Goatweed · 02-08-2003, 12:56 AM

On one hand I would want to, just to be able to see everything that will happen in the future. On the other, I would be lonely as fuck, because anyone I got remotely close too would eventually become a memory.

diceisgod · 02-08-2003, 12:57 AM

How much long term memory could someone immortal have? Would they remember what they did the equavalent of one life time ago? Two lifetime's ago? If you we're a vampire you couldn't take any pictures of yourself to remind you. Can vampires be heard on a telephone? Can they post on a message board? It's a touchy situation.

The Jays · 02-08-2003, 12:57 AM

.... but the future would never occur. Everything would always be the present.

Sir O · 02-08-2003, 12:59 AM

No. What if I end up like the dude in Johnny Got His Gun? I'd live forever and ever as a vegetable.

Or what about when the sun burns out and all forms of life are wiped out except me? It would get pretty lonely.

The Jays · 02-08-2003, 01:01 AM

... the sun will swallow the Earth before it burns out... so you're gonna have to travel into outer space and go somewhere.

Sir O · 02-08-2003, 01:04 AM

Travelling outer space all by myself? What if the rockets burn out, will I just drift aimlessly for an eternity?

The Jays · 02-08-2003, 01:04 AM

... bring a book....

QuickStop · 02-08-2003, 01:06 AM

i would love to see technology in the years to come, but i would want to have the option to die whenever i wanted to.

Hybrid · 02-08-2003, 01:17 AM

Quote:... bring a book....

:lol:

Weird NJ · 02-08-2003, 01:21 AM

Only if Hybrid lives forever with me. :thumbs-up:

The Jays · 02-08-2003, 01:25 AM

.... you'd eventually be stuck in outer space with him... and he'd be piloting your spaceship goin WEEEEEEEEEEEEE! or saying OMG IM HAN SOLOOOOOO!...

Weird NJ · 02-08-2003, 01:28 AM

Weeeeeeeeee-Bleep!

The Jays · 02-08-2003, 01:29 AM

... Knock him out the box, Luke, Knock him out!

Goatweed · 02-08-2003, 01:34 AM

it would be cool to see if the Red Sox ever win a World Series :lol:

PollyannaFlower46 · 02-08-2003, 01:42 AM

Quote:it would be cool to see if the Red Sox ever win a World Series :lol:

Naw, that's not worth living to see!

I definitely wouldn't want to live forever, I would constantly lose people to death, and once you found that one person that you never wanted to lose, you'd miss them for eternity. That would just suck. I am curious as to what things would be like 300 or so years from now, but I definitely don't want to live forever to find out.

Buttmunch · 02-08-2003, 01:44 AM

Somebody might have read Pete Hamill recently...

GonzoStyle · 02-08-2003, 01:54 AM

Yeah but i you live forever, do you have to work forever to? If so fuck that.

Aging itself is also a factor.