do you want to live forever?

Answer 1

YES. Life is both too good, and too brief, to end in the oblivion of death.

Most of the objections I hear to immortality don't make much sense, or are a matter of opinion or personal belief. Some of the more common ones:

"If I live forever, I won't get to heaven." Well perhaps it may take a few millenia for some people to gain enough life experience, watching religions grow, evolve and fade away, to realize that yeah, the afterlife really is just a human invention. Heaven & hell are what we choose to make of this life, now.

"If I live forever, I'll have to forever be watching loved ones die." Well yeah, but we lose loved ones now, and we get over it. Live long enough and you realize that the real value in a relationship or friendship is in the time spent together. Knowing that your time with someone is finite should cause you to cherish that time all the more, not regret it because it will someday end.

"If I live forever, I'll just keep getting older until I'm like a bed-ridden Yoda." Well, not really. The biological body does have its limits, but that's why you would migrate into a non-biological body, that isn't so fragile, can be easily repaired and upgraded, can't be sickened by disease (since it's artificial), doesn't age (again, since it's artificial), etc.

"Unless I'm the only immortal, the world would soon be wall-to-wall with people." The technology needed for immortality is no simple matter. But by the time that happens, space travel will be trivial (especially if you don't need food, life support, etc. [remember, you have an artificial body now!]) and I suspect that many of us will choose to venture out into the vast unknowns of the cosmos.

"Immortal life would get boring after a while." Only if you're not creative enough to find something to do with your time. Even for an immortal there will always be new books to read, new people to meet and form relationships with, new places to visit, new experiences to have. And quite frankly, if there's ever a time when you've "done it all," it will have been soooo long that doing it all over again will seem like a new experience.

I want to do it all, see it all, experience it all, understand it all. There are dozens of professions I'd like to try out for a few decades or centuries before moving on to the next one. I will always thirst for new knowledge and new insights and wisdom. I want to see civilizations rise and fall and rise again. I want to watch and participate as the human race evolves into the next species (species being singular or plural!).

70-80 years, or even a trillion years, is the blink of an eye in the cosmic scheme of things. I want to live to see it all. And who knows? Some of us just may succeed.

Answer 2

Certainly! Although, I would only want to do so if I never had to worry about an aging body. If I could live forever without aging (without having the downside of being a vampire) I would most certainly do it.

Answer 3

Life may be great but you have to look outside the box. First of all if you were immortal what would happen when the sun turns into a red giant explodes and takes out the earth? you would be floating there for an eternity. And besides that when your family will pass away you will be alone and with out any to love or be loved by. So in my opinion I want to live life to its fullest but when my time comes id like it to happen in a peacful way were i an ascend to heaven and be there with eternal hapiness.

Answer 4

i could choose to stay continuously. i'm 20 now, and that i could in all hazard choose to be continuously sixty 8. i think of by using the time i'm sixty 8, i'm going to have performed many existence aims, which includes determining to purchase a house, doing particularly some traveling, getting married, having little ones, and each little thing else i had to do. 13 replaced right into a puzzling age for me. I suffered melancholy after dealing with a scientific disaster. i do no longer care concerning the previous; I basically choose to flow forward into the destiny and stay my existence! :)

Answer 5

Ew, why would anyone want an awful thing like that? I'm a joy filled person on Earth, but Heaven is gonna kick @ss!! I can hardly wait for that. So no, the sooner I go, the better...not at all suicidal (very happy I might add), just excited for what comes after death.

Answer 6

Yes. I am scared of dying.

Answer 7

Yes, but certainly not here. . . not here. . .