Soon enough you will tire of this life and all the stress and pain will just get on top of you. For this reason, death is a welcome release
2006-09-28 02:21:20 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I do not think that I would want to live forever here. .. only in heaven where everything is perfect...
2006-09-28 02:23:00 · answer #1 · answered by Jessica M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Imagine the technicalities of living forever. If we discovered immortality today, right this minute, and everyone was suddenly immortal, we'd have to create laws where people would have to cut back on the number of kids they have, finally outlawing children all together because of overpopulation. Would people be outraged? Would there be an underground baby black market? How would wars be fought? I for one wouldn't go to war if I could live forever. Too much to risk. Evolution? If some natural catastrophy happened, we wouldn't be able to evolve and adapt. Also, in my experience, when I buy a book it tends to sit on the shelf for a long time before I get to it becuase "I've got forever," but when I get a book from the library I have to read it fast or I won't get the chance. Maybe a fear of death motivates us to get things done.
2006-09-28 02:36:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that anyone would choose to live for ever on this earth and there comes a natural stage where our bodies wear out and we get rather tired of the way in which everything around us is changing and we feel out of step with the rest of the world. We are then ready to die. But I believe very firmly that I am destined to live for ever in a better life free from pain, stress and sorrow and that after death, through faith in Jesus, I shall be equipped to face the otherwise terrifying prospect of eternity.
2006-09-28 03:34:14 · answer #3 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Many do like to live forever may be due to various reasons.
1. The attraction to worldly things like Money, Comfort, Lust etc.
2. To see the development and changes that take place
3. To see to the welbeing of decendents
4. Fear of Death
5. Uncertinity about life after death
These are taken as the reasons for a person to re-incarnate to see and continue life. As you have clearly mentioned, living it self is a suffercation - but there is a meaning tolife and the day we find the meaning to life, there will be no reason to continue life.
2006-09-28 02:31:10 · answer #4 · answered by R G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tire of life?? Never! Boredom and ennui are for people without the creativity and curiosity to find something worth living for.
It's not like an immortal would run out of things to do. You could spend all of eternity doing nothing but reading, because the rate of new published material is far greater than anyone's reading rate. You could spend all of eternity doing nothing but watching TV or movies (at least if you included foreign films) for the same reason. Of course no one would want to spend eternity doing any one thing (especially lying in the ground rotting!), but my point is that there is no excuse for ever, EVER being bored with life. Think of all the great relationships you could cultivate over the millenia and eons. Think of all the places you could travel; you could hike all of Earth, and by the time you finished with that mankind will be among the stars and you could start hiking the galaxy. Think of all the skills and hobbies you could acquire; you could learn to be a gourmet chef, speedboat racer, librarian, farmer, rock climber, engineer, whatever caught your fancy, and you could do that for as long as you felt like it.
You bet I'd want to live forever. I want to experience it all, the good and the bad, then experience it again. I want to glean every last bit of wisdom there is to be had. Ditto with knowledge, though I doubt that one person could ever "know it all." Death is the end of all experience, the end of all thinking and feeling and learning. Death is permanent. It is not only the opposite of life, but the enemy of life. While I would never force immortality on anyone who didn't want it, I would suggest that anyone who embraces death may want to do some serious soul-searching, and ask themselves what _their_ purpose for living is, what keeps them going now but not later?
Death is the result of being trapped in imperfect bodies. If there were a such thing as a Creator god, he was one lousy engineer. A lifetime of 70-80 years is far shorter than the blink of an eye in the cosmic scheme of things. Heck, you really haven't _lived_ until you've lived for a few millenia!
And to the previous answerer who worried about overpopulation in a world of immortals, I don't think that's a big concern. The human biological body is too flawed for immortality. We'd need to migrate our minds to more durable cybernetic/electronic forms, free of disease, fragile biological cells, or the need for any resources other than plain energy (electricity). Such non-biological forms would have a very small resource footprint, as they would not require food, water, medical care, heating/cooling, or any of the other things required to keep biological life alive. As such, non-biologicals would also no longer be limited to this planet, but could begin settling off-world to the moon, Mars, other places in the solar system, and eventually move out to the stars themselves. Biological humans will likely be constrained to Earth for the forseeable future. The rest of us, will inherit the stars!
2006-09-28 03:48:00 · answer #5 · answered by R[̲̅ə̲̅٨̲̅٥̲̅٦̲̅]ution 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hmm not everyone has such a negative view on life. Life
is what you make it.
And besides, who really knows what is on the other side. Maybe that is where the real stress and pain is?
2006-09-28 02:23:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would think you would want to live forever, if anything to try an make the world a better place for others...peacheschocklate
2006-09-28 02:30:16 · answer #7 · answered by peacheschocklate 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because that's how long it would take to construct the ideal life--know everything, have found everything you ever wanted, amassed wealth beyond measure, witnessed world peace--living forever is a blessing if you are sufficiently goal oriented and wish to accomplish things that you can never accomplish within one human lifetime
2006-09-28 09:20:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you could stave off boredom, and you could keep your health and well-being for all your life, then living forever would certainly offer you the chance to learn about virtually everything, and I think THAT would be pretty interesting.
2006-09-28 02:31:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It may be nice to live for a thousand years or so.
But I'm not sure death would be welcome.
Don't get me wrong I'm not afraid of dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
2006-09-28 02:32:05 · answer #10 · answered by Mr Cheese 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because people don't accept they are a simple produce of nature and they can't decide what will happen with them (passivity) , it's the human's caracteristic: we want control everything, that's the point in most religions.
2006-09-28 02:30:56 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋