Feel free to explain your decision if you wish.
2007-08-14 05:22:50 · 15 answers · asked by Enigma®Ragnarökin' 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Immortality [in a single lifetime] would be a tougher gig than I'd wish on anyone
2007-08-14 05:33:00 · answer #1 · answered by Jack P 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It would all depend on the specifics of what I was granting along with immortality. Personally, I might wish to have a longer life (although, as I'm really only beginning this journey, I really don't have any way of knowing that yet), and I don't think I would personally want immortality, while everyone I knew and cared for was passing away. With that in mind, I would think of others and what they would have to go through with immortality. If it meant everlasting life, but no promise that the person would be free of disease and health problems, I wouldn't want to sentence someone to a lifetime of cancer, AIDS or chronic heart diseases, just to name a few problems that someone might encounter later in life if they were immortal. I definitely don't think that I would do it if there were absolutely no reversal (or chance of the person ending their life by any means). If the means were there for them to end their life should they regret the decision to ask for immortality, I would discuss those options with the person and see if they genuinely considered them and would be accepting of that should they ever want to reverse their immortality (I wouldn't simply accept, "Oh, I know now that I want to live forever, no matter what" for an answer.) With those things in mind, I might grant immortality. But there are just a lot of questions that go along with immortality in my mind.
2007-08-14 13:04:31 · answer #2 · answered by JenV 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Certain people I would...but I wouldn't tell them.
I would give the ability to the truly peaceful....but if I had the ability I would also need the ability to take their life away.
I can't give someone immortal, then they realize they're a few hundred years old and....wait a second...I can't die...I'll take over the world!!! thing to happen...
So when they DO get the idea they will take over the world, I'll remove the gift so they'll die.
2007-08-14 12:28:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
There's a saying that there's no ailment that will last 100 years or a body that can stand it. Immortality, as in while in mortal, physical form would be somewhat of a curse, because the body decays.
2007-08-14 12:46:08 · answer #4 · answered by zytlaly 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Immortality is a curse as much as it is a blessing. Though we fear the end, end we must. We are finite beings, and not having an end would render our experience pointless. Being immortal, living forever would be a shallow, meaningless experience.
2007-08-14 12:27:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
No. If creatures were immortal there wouldn't be any space for future generations. We have our time to live and then our children need their time.
2007-08-14 12:27:06 · answer #6 · answered by The Bog Nug 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
An endless life in these cursed bodies, on this cursed dying earth, is probably on par with a life in hell.
I wouldnt wish that on anyone.
2007-08-14 12:27:38 · answer #7 · answered by amosunknown 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would only grant immortality to people i dont like..Who wants to slog their **** around this planet for eternity..not me
2007-08-14 12:27:01 · answer #8 · answered by Fae 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, living in this physical existence would be torment for eternity. The after life is the true existence.
2007-08-14 12:29:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
no that would be boring! i mean living for eternitiy...honestly, 80 years seems long enough for me!! and that would seriously disrapt the carbon cycle...i don't wanna mess with nature, and living for eternitiy is surely is a way to do that!
2007-08-14 12:34:02 · answer #10 · answered by krishnokoli 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋