lets say your 30 to 45 years old and you wish apon a shooting star to live for ever.And low and behold it happens .But now everybody around you grows old .Now think into the far future your great great great great grand kids are seniors .Would you want to live for ever?
2006-11-20 09:05:50 · 9 answers · asked by thomas t 1 in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
It would be great. You could get a reverse mortgage, with the knowledge that the bank would never, ever get its money.
You could remarry without guilt. Your wife would always be younger than you. Oh, the pleasure in attending the funerals of all those mothers-in-law!
You could watch evolution take place. You might look a bit different to the rest of mankind in a million years though.
However, with my luck, I would get Alzheimers when I was 150, and blow the rest of eternity in a rest home.
2006-11-20 10:27:33 · answer #1 · answered by Labsci 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nah, there's a reason for a limited lifetime. I cannot begin to imagine the incredible feeling of loss at losing everyone you love and knowing when you meet someone and start to care about them you will, with definite certainty, have to cope with their death one day. While I think one could learn to find infinite joy in living forever, joy does not come without its counterpart. The saying "live each day to its fullest" would lose its meaning. You could sit on your couch for 100 years and really it would be the blink of an eye. That said, if I was guaranteed perfect health and recovery, there are so many thing I would like to try! I wouldn't have to live a million years for that though. A regular life span would do.
2006-11-20 15:53:06 · answer #2 · answered by Schnibbs 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think living forever would be a bad idea, there is only so much lifetime one can handle. It would take an extraordinary person to be able to cope with living forever without losing it.
2006-11-20 09:18:04 · answer #3 · answered by Eoas 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only if health and physical good looks comes with it sure would. I could right what I've wronged and be able to help more people
2006-11-20 11:43:00 · answer #4 · answered by papabeartex 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't want to live that long. I don't want to have to watch eveyone I love and care about all die around me over and over again.
2006-11-20 10:07:01 · answer #5 · answered by Jaded 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'd love to see the future!
2006-11-20 09:10:45 · answer #6 · answered by nursesr4evr 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A million years isn't "forever."
And, no, that's too long to live for me.
2006-11-20 09:13:19 · answer #7 · answered by BOO! 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would not want to outlive my children.
2006-11-20 09:12:58 · answer #8 · answered by Semi-charmed 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'd take it.
2006-11-20 09:14:03 · answer #9 · answered by picopico 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋