2007-02-17 02:15:25 · 30 answers · asked by Karma Chimera 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Actually, I am going to live forever. I decided I didn't feel like dying ever last year. Baby cakes, it's your lucky day... I've decided to let you live forever with me.
Will you marry me?
2007-02-17 02:24:31 · answer #1 · answered by Professor Chaos 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The simple answer to this question is: "No, I wouldn't."
However, to reach this state of resignation, I have had to overcome my in-built biological reactions. This has been rightly pointed out by Ivan, above. Those reactions are there to ensure that our animal selves continue their existence until we have played our part in propogating the species.
Keriandje, also above, and many others, have seen beyond this. We humans, have used our minds to "progress" to a point where we can not only prolong life significantly, but also think of existing beyond our natural life span. Rich men clone, Madonna hired a stud - rather sick efforts to ensure something of you (hopefully unadulterated by other genes/influence) will continue. Inklings of the future!
Tiresias in Greek mythology - "old man with female dugs" as T.S. Eliot described him - is proof that 3,000 years ago the crunch was known. We would all like eternal youth, but there is little pleasure to be had in aging without escape through death.
About 300 years ago, Jonathan Swift took Gulliver to Laputa, a land of experimentation. There all the inhabitants mourned when a baby was born with the unmistakable mark that it was destined to live for ever, although it would age.
Tennyson, much later, picked on another Greek legend - that of Tithonus - to again show the misery of an "aging immortal".
So, regretfully, I know that I must depart. More than half my life is spent. My sapience is unfortunate; a pure animal will go more gently in to that "Good Night". I am condemned to "rage, rage against the dying of the light."
Good night!
2007-02-18 11:11:46 · answer #2 · answered by RebelBlood 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you'd have to watch your mother, father, children, and more die before your eyes and every friend you got die. However I would take up the offer if it was asked within a second. You'll devolp a cold heart eventually. Wouldn't it be nice to see the year 3000
2007-02-17 10:27:53 · answer #3 · answered by Kimera Mitsukuri 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my intitial answer was yes,. but I have a 4 year old daughter, and while I would be gutted when my husband passed on before me, he could be replaced! But if I was to have to out live my child then no way at all. If she was allowed to be immortal too, then definatley.
2007-02-17 10:19:20 · answer #4 · answered by CHARISMA 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.
I'm bored enough as it is without having to endure it forever.
2007-02-17 10:23:01 · answer #5 · answered by Mighty C 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO WAY!!!!
The end is as important as the beginning and the middle bit....you wouldn't have real life it it had no end.....
it would be just like having a mars bar that's never ending.....sounds nice as a fleeting thought, but when you really think about it.......- not nice....
2007-02-17 10:20:46 · answer #6 · answered by keriandjelly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no because if that was the case, i'd be sick of myself and end up killing myself anyway. there comes a point in our lives where we die and come to the end of our existence as human beings, and there's nothing we can do to prevent that from happening
2007-02-20 14:10:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no people wore not made to live forever
2007-02-17 10:42:35 · answer #8 · answered by Jennifer S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO NO NO NO NO!!
Once is quite enough. I'll be so glad to leave all earth's problems to the next generations. I've done my part and paid my dues.
2007-02-17 19:49:37 · answer #9 · answered by concernedjean 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No when I'm done with my work I want to go back home.
I love you guys but I miss home.
Love and blessings Don
2007-02-17 21:52:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋