Would you like to live forever? Read on...?

Question

Immortality, the fountain of youth, the holy grail, the ability to live forever. This has been the dream of the rich the powerful and the affluent for centuries, but would you like to live forever?

There is a story from Russia from the middle ages of an old soldier, who after travelling home from a distant war acquires a sack which can trap anything that he calls into it.

Years later, on his death bed, he sees death standing at the head of his bed. Fearing what lay beyond his death he holds the sack up and calls death into it. He has done it, he has cheated death, he has trapped death in his sack. But nothing died, anywhere anytime. Months later the poor and starving, old and invalid come to him and beg him to release death, so that death may come and take them, releasing them from their suffering. Their cries moved him so much that he released death, and asked death to take him and put the world to rights.

However death was angry with the soldier and not take him. From that time on he was doomed to walk the earth, seeing all those around grow old and die but he never did. He never aged and he never died. He walks the earth to this day.

So my question is, If you (and only you) could live forever would you want to?

Remember, it is not for a thousand or ten thousand years, but forever, till the end of time.

Serious answers only please.

Thanks.

Answer 1

yes of course ..

Answer 2

The Bible does tell there will be a "great crowd" who will live forever on a paradise earth. There will be much to do with plenty of excitement. All those people I've read about being ressurrected like Noah. What was the shape of that ark? The job of returning the earth to paradise conditions. Then to be curious about everything, WOW! I can't draw. I have no musical talent. I always wanted to build fine furniture. A few hundred years could maybe take care of that.

Answer 3

You know, there's another story by Tom Robbins called Jitterbug Perfume that talks about a couple who plan to live forever. They meet Pan and they live for centuries, when their curiosity gets the better of them and they decide to try and cross over to death and come right back. They try it, but only she goes, he is left on Earth and he waits for her. She finally returns to him many years later (she thought it was just 20 minutes) and they go on to live for eternity, together once again.

After reading that book, I decided I would love to live forever - to see the planet and people evolve (like The Highlander) - but I would not want to do it alone. There would have to be at least one other with me.

As a study of death, I so totally recommend Piers Anthony's On A Pale Horse - it's the first book in the Incarnation series, and I recommend it in it's entirety. It is interesting to objectively look at death and realize that it, like everything else, is subjective. It is not good or bad in and of itself - it is the human perception that makes it good or bad, a blessing or a tragedy.

Peace!

Answer 4

No story can compare to the truth of the gospel. If living forever were as tragic as your story portrays it nobody would want to live forever.

But eternity is not filled with people growing old and suffering but never dying. Every person who ever walked this earth will live throughout eternity. It is not a choice. God planned it when He created immortal souls. We will spend our eternity in a place of rest or agony, love or hate, misery or peace according to our own choice. God extends clemency to all who will receive it - reject it and the misery you speak of in your story will be joy by comparison. This is not a threat -- as some believe it to be, but simple truth that people don't want to hear. We cannot change God's word because it is not pleasant anymore than we can get rid of cancer by thinking it away. Truth doesn't change for anyone or anything.

Answer 5

If only me, no way I would if I could extend it to those I loved, especially my kids.

I will ring your doorbell and run away!!!

Oh by the way, I heard a similar story about Cain and Longinus (The man who speared Jesus on the Cross). Supposedly the mark that God put on Cain was immortality, and that he walks the earth to this day witnessing the results of his sin. Longinus was punished for spearing Christ because technically that act was what killed him and not the crucifixion. He was made immortal as a punishment for striking at the son of God when it was intended that Jesus die on the cross.

Answer 6

I don't want to live forever... not in this world. I'll be able to see all the suffering in this world. I still want to live but I don't want to live forever and watch everyone I love and know slip away while I am left behind... it's sad. Someday, I want to die and go to heaven... there is eternal life there... with God.

Answer 7

It is possible to live forever in a paradise on Earth which is what God has planned. I would love to live forever in these types of conditions. Serving God for eternity.

Answer 8

I would much rather go to heaven and spend eternity with Jesus my savior.
God didn't intend for us to live forever and therefore I don't want any part of living forever on this earth.

Answer 9

I honestly would not want to live forever. When it's my time, it's my time. I'm not going to "cheat" out of death. I also think it would be quite annoying waking up every day for eternity.

Answer 10

NO WAY.
and if you mean forever as in forever ....think about this.
when earth,space, and everything in our solar system comes to an end you will not have died.
not even if it blew up to little shards. you wud still be alive.just floating or falling in emptyness forever.
imagine that.
now that would really suck.

Answer 11

Naw. I'd rather continue to reincarnate and enjoy this trippy ride on Earth.