Nope.
Cons:
Everyone you knw and love would eventually die. Sur eyou could love more people but they would die as well.
Would I age? I woudl hate to live forever in the body of a 90 year old...
Pros:
You could see new technology, meet new people, and you could be filthy rich...
2007-10-12 06:25:07
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answered by B.EAZY 2
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Short of taking another human life, I would do almost anything to be immortal. 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.
2007-10-12 09:57:49
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answered by R[̲̅ə̲̅٨̲̅٥̲̅٦̲̅]ution 7
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well the pros and cons for your question as in the following.
PRO"S ok the best thing about being immortal is that you can live long enough to see the what happens in the future.
CON"S ok now you might not like this anwser but oyu asked for it if you are immortal you have to see the end of the world after that maybe if dies or is destoryed no could live on another planet unless have been delovpledbut let say the earth dies in the next 100 years, no one could be surving the uter most of lonlyness in the immortal life but just think that no one to talk to could make you lose your mind to nothing.
2007-10-12 06:30:52
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answered by Anonymous
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Nope my mind can not concept forever.
Pros Get to visit every place in the whole world, be a lot more wiser as I would learn every language, Geography, History have really all world knowledge.
Cons it everybody lived forever the world would get so crowded that no one would be allowed children, if only you lived forever then you would witness everyone dying, where do you go one the world has ended do you jump from planet to planet if it is compatible, there would be no challenges or things to explore because you would see everything.
2007-10-12 06:51:21
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answered by Anonymous
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I think the best thing would be to be able to control when you died not necessarily to live forever.
When you're immortal you can do whatever you want without fear of death but there's always a possibility that you could suffer with something forever (Imagine having a deadly disease within you that you keep forever).
People think that immortality means instant healing but that's not the case.
If immortality were truly possible you'd still heal normally, you'd just always heal from what would mortally wound you. If something gets injured you still have that injury or something from it.
If you get burned in a fire your body isn't going to repair the damage, you're going to be a burnt body walking around.
Essentially there's a potential for immortal to be zombies and in reality, does anyone really want that?
2007-10-12 06:36:55
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answered by Rob 3
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Clarified quite interestingly in the (italics) Dune (/italics) series by Frank Herbert, a super extended life has some serious drawbacks, and thus I would not enjoy the situation.
Surprise, and anything connected to it as a mental function, would degrade over time as you learned exactly what to expect in nearly every situation.
Learning would slow, as you would eventually reach a point at which the only things you could learn would be new discoveries, a much smaller amount of "new" knowledge than is open to people who have not yet learned all there is to know about their present.
Interpersonal relationships would loose potency. As you aged, you would become more and more acutely aware that others around you were only temporary, and their perceived lifespans would get smaller and smaller in comparison to yours, until a point when you would no longer be able to view them as having any life relative to yours.
2007-10-12 06:50:00
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answered by arvencheese 2
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Most people will answer this without really thinking about it very long.
Forever is only a word, and the human mind cannot really grasp time in that way. I believe that very shortly (in terms of the vastness of time) say 100,000 years, a person would go completely insane.
It has been 14 billion years since time began, again just words, that kind of time span cant really be grasped. But the whole universe has changed so as to be unrecognizable in that time.
So you ask if I would want to live, undying throughout the hundreds of billions of years that space/time has left and then float in the dark of a dead universe forever?
No thank you.
2007-10-12 07:40:54
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answered by Im addicted to the memory of him 3
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Yes. Immortality is basically akin to being "godlike." You no longer have to live in fear nor would you be answerable to anyone.
The perceived cons are watching everyone you know and love die as you continue to live. Yet, such death happens in our limited, mortal lives so when one is immortal, one will come to expect and overcome such heartache. One poster states that living with a debilitating disease forever is one side effect. However, when one is truly immortal, one will eventually find a way to cure such an ailment and continue to live and prosper.
Given the chance, I would take it in a split second.
2007-10-12 07:12:46
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answered by Anonymous
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We do live forever.
However, as far as living forever within this Earth plane. No.
I would like to stay here long enough to find my way to becoming a lot better at being a simple, honest and truly loving person - which I'm far from being at the moment.
Then - I would like to go home and get to spend time with my good friends and teachers who have moved on before me.
I would accept to keep coming back here as long as it makes sense - if there's someone I'd be capable of giving a hand to - to find their way - if I ever find my own way to a better place.
2007-10-12 06:42:09
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answered by joss 3
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Yes, I love the life I have a lot for learn, I´d like make many things but life is short, youth is not forever, I´m afraid to be old, although when I be old I believe I´ll be prepared for live on this way, but now I want many things and being inmortal I could do it, but being young too, because inmortal and old must be a punish.
2007-10-12 06:35:39
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answered by Mr. Graham 6
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Unless you continue to age, I've decided there are no cons. All other issues and problems conceived of by storytellers seem to be ways to comfort ourselves that immortality doesn't seem possible. But if offered the opportunity, take it. At the very worst, you would reinvent yourself as a totally new human being (with all your memories, presumably) every 80 years or so.
2007-10-12 06:25:46
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answered by Anonymous
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