Would you like to live forever if you were granted eternal youth?

Answer 1

How much does life suck for those who answered no? Fk yeah I want to live forever.

Answer 2

Each season has a beauty of its own, and its own magic, like crystals of snow, each season is unique; the fruitfulness of the spring and golden haze of the autumn, snow in the winter, and gentle breezes of the summer, all are charming in their own way. But if a season were to stay forever that season could not have been known at all.

Like the four seasons of a year, my youthfulness is a season too, a season that cannot be measured in time and neither can it be capture in a wish or in a desire of my very heart. Seasons of youthfulness are free, free like birds, fragrance, or a song; they fly free through vastness of the time.
Now if I knew that my youth were to last forever like an eternal bliss; if I knew that ripeness of the fruit of my passion will never age, and it fragrance never fade; if I knew that the air would always be laden with golden mist of morning light, and the earth decked with flowers new upon everglades of velvet grasses, an eternal season with fruit all ripe and free, then I would find no happiness in this all, at all. I would see nothing except a painted picture, still and forever, frozen in the moments of the time, captured in a cruel desire, a wish granted once and forever, died.

For it is only the comings of the autumn that makes my heart feel the ach of the parting of the spring; what would been the value of summer breeze if I had not known the harshness of the winter wind?

Answer 3

To live for ever well, possibly so long as there was an opt out cause. The posibilities are awe inspiring, I could literally change the world, rise to power take control bang a few heads togeather, then go and help sort out famine probelms etc by introducing sustainable development. Be there when the first warp engine is developed. The pain of loss lessens over time and think of all the knowledge you would have gained and wisdom, but to live forever suggests that you could do everything but ultimately if you can dream it you can do it....... So with the proviso of the opt out yes I would

Answer 4

Even if I was granted another chance to live my life as I wanted, eternal youth included, I'd still prefer to pass from all life's stages: to be a baby, a little child, a teenager, a young woman, an adult and an old woman, trying to take all that life has to offer me in every single stage. What's the point in living forever, being forever young and seeing all your loved ones grow, wither and die? Cherishing your precious moments through your life, that's something that no one can take it away and remains forever. As utopian as it may sounds, that's the eternity for me.

Answer 5

Absolutely not. What would life "mean" if it did not end? Why would anyone be creative, or do anything at all? If one does not know he/she is a finite being, life would be as banal and unfulfilling as a video game. Would you value anything - would you even care about the loved ones so many people seem to be afraid to bury? I'd say the fastest route - paradoxically - to nihilism, apathy, and ultimately, non-being, is believing one is infinite. Your question is hypothetical, but can you see the what happens when the same logic is transferred into other realms of thought? Doesn't an attitute of infallibility, in say, one's assumptions, lead to a similiar outcome? If one knows Everything, what's left but Nothing? Who shares that paradigm is extremely dangerous (think facist Germany, Christian mauraders during the Inquisition, President Bush?).
Overall, it's a dumb idea, man. Don't follow through with it.

Answer 6

If I had eternal youth, and the health that goes with it, I suppose I could live a life of continuous hedonism. But surely it is the role of humankind to be purposive: that is what distinguishes us from non-thinking organisms. And purposiveness requires progression through finite time.

Try recasting the question slightly. Suppose you could have a brain operation so that a pleasure centre in your brain was permanently stimulated. You would simply exist in permanent ecstasy, not doing anything but being totally happy: all your food and other needs would be looked after for you. At any time you could turn off the stimulation. I think the answer is that as you would be in ecstasy you would not turn off the pleasure. But I for one would not choose to be placed in that position.

From this illustration, my answer to your question is that if I had eternal youth I would like it, but I would not like to have eternal youth.

Answer 7

Did you ever see the movie Groundhog day?

Would you want to go to a movie that, however alluring, never ended?

Can you imagine similar events being lived out over and over again? Ok, you'd get to learn from your lessons, but what then. Youd get the perfect boy or girl friend, make your million dollars, and then . . . Well, you could drop the friend and give away your million and then what? You could go and get them again? And again? And again?

Life has interest and meaning precisely because it is sequential and time-limited. You build on your past to work toward a future. You have interests because you have goals and needs to obtain.

If you had infinite time, you'd have infinite time to procrastinate. Nothing would matter now, because there is an endless succession of future nows.

If nothing mattered now, you'd want to commit suicide. But you couldn't even do that.

The person who said she would like to live forever if she could end her life whenever she wanted to is just cheating. if you live forever you cannot end your life.

The best way to think about life is to dream what is possible, what is really desireable, what you really want, within the confines of a lifetime. Then get to work, keeping death always in view. To live well, make friends with death.

Answer 8

No way. Wasn't that the story of The Green Mile? He lives forever, so does the mouse? I think maybe he just lives a long time past when all the other people in his life does. His wife passes on, his friends, etc......... Why mess with the cycle of life, when there may be a much better place beyond this life. I would like to move on and see what my next life has to offer.

Answer 9

Can I live forever as i am now?
Eternal youth would mean that I didn't really know enough about the world to be useful.

Answer 10

No, eternal life would suck any value out of existence. A value is that which you want to gain and keep. To value requires choice. If we live forever, there becomes no need for choosing (you can not waste time since you have an infinte amount of it), so all value becomes non-existant. Everything would become dull and repetitive. Perhaps we should not be asking, "Why couldn't I have a little more time?" but, "Why didn't I make the most of the time I had?"

Answer 11

Yes i would love to get to see how the world changes, grows, and evolves over the centuries. sadly it would be better if i could have been granted that back during the i don't know 1200's or something so i could really watch the world change. i think the world is headed down hill no so I'm not sure it would be worth it but yes i would like that.