Would you choose to be immortal?

Question

Immortality... Never being able to rest. Always existing, an eternity of doing the samethings (boredom). If you had to pick between an immortal life or death right now what would you pick?

Answer 1

I'd pick death. To me death is actually the start of immortality only in a better place, I hope.

Answer 2

Death

Answer 3

Wow, sure are a lot of deathists around. Well then, let me be the first to choose immortality. And I would choose it even without the alternative of instant death otherwise.

Life is such a great thing, it's too bad so few people see that nowadays. I want to live forever because I want to experience it all, I want to see society and civilization and mankind progress and evolve, through the good times and the bad.

Anyone who thinks immortality means an eternity of boredom, has no imagination. If I became immortal today, I could _still_ never hope to see every movie made, every book & magazine published, every scientific advance made. These are things that will never run out. And hell, if they ever do, I'll make my own. :-)

As the saying goes, the meek will inherit the Earth...while the rest of us, inherit the stars.

All you pessimists who see no redeeming value in your lives, go ahead and die when your time comes. I for one won't stop you. In fact I encourage you. It takes a certain optimism and dynamism to be an immortal, and the type of person who would choose immortality, is just the type I would want to be surrounded by after the rest of you have gone the way of the dodo bird.

Answer 4

Death.

Answer 5

Actually, immortality would mean an infinite amount of rest. If I were immortal, I wouldn't always do the same things – nor is doing the same thing repeatedly a necessary cause of boredom.

If I could choose to be immortal, I would. Life is the greatest good that I have. Offer me more of it, and I'll jump at the chance.

Answer 6

Do I get to keep my body in tact--the way it is right now, or do I have to get saggy, flabby, wrinkled, and weak? If I could keep myself--as I am now, I would chose immortality. Although I am not a "life is always sunny, gosh I love everyone" kind of person, I think it would be great to go on and on. People may say, "Yeah, but what about the people you will lose?" And, I reply," I will enjoy them while they are here... I will meet new people." However, I will not get that choice, so I have to be immortal in another way. See, the immortals, to me, are Mozart, Sartre, Shakespeare, Chaucer... well, you get the point. If my words live on, than so shall I. Guess I need to get back to writing.... this trying to live infinitely sure is hard work!

Answer 7

I think I would choose death. This world is so full of hate. It has progressively gotten worse over the years and I don't see it getting any better. Why would I want to live to see hate when I can die and possibly be in peace? I would only choose to be immortal if the world were full of peace and there were no wars or hate.

Answer 8

Same thing? By choosing changes and allowing it to happen with no effort made from your side is equal to immortality...That required absence of beliefs, for your beliefs resisting natural changes to occur, keeps you rigid.Changes occur anyway locally, and sometimes painfully, that is a sign of mortality. Changes speaks for itself.Never the same, always different whether in forms or in its appearances. Have a Faith and you are immortal. Oh, with presence of Faith no beliefs can exist. Would it be boring to exist in different appearances and, perhaps, in forms which you can and cannot yet imagine? I suspect that it is a destiny of any each of us on a big scale, frustrating isn't it?

Answer 9

death

Answer 10

I don't want to be immortal, and I don't believe in death. I'll just be moving on, thank you very much.