What would you do if you found out that you would probably live to about the age of 5000 years?

Answer 1

First, I'd go back to bed, safe in the knowledge that I'm not wasting that much time in the scheme of things. ;-)

Then, I'd go about figuring out long-term strategies for positive change in the world that I might not ordinarily consider without an extended lifespan.

I'd also take up more skills, like learning to play another instrument, etc., because I'd know I could spend more time perfecting those skills.

So in general, I guess I wouldn't be nearly as miserly with my time.

Answer 2

Being only 20 years old, I'd live long enough to see my Children live a healthy life and leave my grandchildren with as much wisdom as i can... After Hitting 120 I'd ask for a euthanasia. As much good as there is on this planet, it becomes overwhelmed by the bad. I'm only 20 and from my POV, this world has gone straight to hell. Unless all Vices were destroyed and World peace at hand, Living for 5000 years would be hell.

Answer 3

Well, that would depend on the quality of life wouldn't it?

There's an actual ancient Greek Myth about this, about how a man, a mortal lover of one of the minor goddesses, was cursed by Zeus with immortality....he'd live forever.

And also get *older and more frail* forever as well. He ended up being a cricket, or at least mistaken for one, and crushed like a bug.

That isn't a life worth living by any stretch. ;) But assuming you don't mean that, that I would at least stay healthy and whole, if not become outright impervious to wear and tear...

Like one person said, I'd read more....and write more, record more, and try to collect everything because I know the human memory can only hold so much data.....

I'd be like Mark Twain, a.k.a. Samuel Clemens, minus that comet. I'd marry the love of my life, have kids, and end up having to do it again as I would end up outliving (and burying) my own grandchildren. That would be the sad part.

The happy part comes when the rest of humanity *comes back* from their travels off-world, into the black of space, comes back evolved and enlightened...and they then want to know what "we were really like back then".

Because then I can single-handedly render both religion and paleontology obsolete as I tell and *show* people the truth as best I know it, citing my carefully collected and preserved physical evidence and everything....I'd be a Human Time Capsule.

I'd still be Sad, yes. Lonely? Hells yes, having to bury my own family more than once would be enough to make *anyone* crazy.

But. My life would have meaning. It would have purpose. It would be bigger than *me* and all my petty failed hopes and dreams. It would finally be *more than* the sum total of my mistakes and failings....

Or at least I could hope so, in spite of probability suggesting otherwise.

Sorry to go on so....thanks for your time and have a good one! :)

Answer 4

first off i would be quite curious to know what brought about that great extention and then the possiblity that i might get the chance to do all the things i thought that i might not have had the time for how ever the down side to this is prolonged hunger ,prolonged pain prolonged suffering so for a person in any one of these situations it would not be good news at all but on the up side it would give doctors more time to correct scientist more time discover and most of all wil be able to say that i have out lived generations wow i would be a witnes to shistoric events and say i was there but seriously that would be some freaky shittttttttttt

Answer 5

I would enroll myself as an astronaut and travel 3500 years light into space to follow an extraterrestrial life sign, then transmit my findings to Earth and finally wait 500 years to die, well, I hope they had something to travel faster than speed of light to return home ;). Also, maybe I fall in love with them, who knows. I would also like to pass to history as the first human being that lived 5000 years... and... I would cheat and read alot during the first 1000 years so that I would be super genious and everybody would wonder wow how is she SO intelligent? and nobody would know my secret! :D

Answer 6

i'll tell you what i would do that would be different to this one - whatever the hell i bloody want!
i would spend a lot of time mastering skills like guitar, piano, languages, levitation...(hey if living 5000 years was possible why not levitation?)
i would find cures, have thousands of careers, lots of lovers, lots of friends, live in every country, go into space,keep 5000 years worth of diaries, never stress, collect money over the years to cure poverty and debt. do weird crazy things cos no one would ever be around to remember i was insane in that century. the possibilities are endless

Answer 7

For the first 3000 years put a pound a week away in an high interest account then spend the last 2000 years spending it

Answer 8

It wouldn't bother me personally because I don't think about death anyway. But if you actually could live that long your life wouldn't be your own because scientists would be experimenting on you to find the secret of eternal youth and eccentric millionaires would be offering you their fortunes so you could help extend their lives too. It'd be ok if you could keep it secret but it would be a lonely existence when everyone you ever loved died and you had to keep going.

Answer 9

If I was living on a planet where a year was equivalent to 60 earth years I wouldn't worry about it, and just carry on the way I am now.

Answer 10

It would be worth while knowing what step one takes the next second in life rather than contemplating on the years to be wasted.