Do you want to live forever?

Fuck no!

I am almost 57 and while I have always been a creative, life loving personality I am getting damn tired these days. Every organism dies, as it should be and at the rate of our staggering over population, global warming, employment issues, health care issues and all the other problems exacerbated by too – many – damn – people, living “forever” is not only selfish and unrealistic it would destroy us even faster than we are already destroying ourselves. The only reason anyone would want to live forever is because they have an ego the size of the Grand Canyon and are terrified of that ego ceasing to exist.

Good GOD NO!!!!!
And I will use the same reason Coloma used.

Part of me says yes, and the other part is in two minds.

Nope, no way.

Of course.

Ask this question to person who’s suffering from pain, on death bed and wants to get rid of it ASAP what is called life and you’ll get the answer.

Yes. I could learn so much. I could witness the evolution of civilisation (or its demise), the progress of history. I’d get to experience all the technological advancements.

I could test my predictions about the course of humanity by being alive long enough to witness the results.

And I like being alive. I can’t imagine not being alive, despite knowing that the end is inevitable.

If it means I get to stay in the same physical & mental shape I am now & my friends & family are also blessed with the gift, then abso-fuckin-lutely I would.
If however I age, like forever, then eventually my balls will gradually droop to ankle level & resemble testicle spats…then i’m not playing no

No, what I wish is that I could have my youth back to live over again with the wisdom and maturity that I have now.

Naw . . . you know, the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to—with good health, maybe a couple of hundred years.

Interesting thought.. when you’re young you don’t have maturity ( in most of the cases) and when you have maturity you don’t have youth..

Fuck no!

I just turned 56 and while I have always been a creative, life loving personality I am getting damn tired these days. Every organism dies, as it should be and at the rate of our staggering over population, global warming, employment issues, health care issues and all the other problems exacerbated by too – many – damn – people, living “forever” is not only selfish and unrealistic it would destroy us even faster than we are already destroying ourselves. The only reason anyone would want to live forever is because they have an ego the size of the Grand Canyon and are terrified of that ego ceasing to exist. ;)

@Cruiser LOL, I guess you agree. :-)

Not a chance. Outliving all my friends and family members sounds horrible.

NEVER ! That sounds scary.

Since we’re indulging in magical thinking for the moment, HELL YES if I could freeze my body and health status at about thirty years old. I’ve often thought about what it would be like living through a few centuries, watching society develop, knowing the truth about history.

But it would be a challenge to hide my longevity. My wives would get suspicious after a while, possibly even jealous enough to expose me, so I’d probably have to continually change geography every fifteen years or so as the people around me began to suspect. That would be the greatest heartbreak, I think. Continually leaving behind wives, children and loved ones. I would certainly become adept at knowing how to ensure their welfare after I disappeared. I would check up on them anonymously, follow their lives and secretly look after them.

I’d know a lot of languages after awhile. I’d figure out the world of investments. Out of a fugitive’s necessity, I’d have to live in and learn different cultures. It would be very interesting.

This life really is the only game I know. I don’t know what’s coming next. I’ll stick with what I know and take the time and effort to get really, really good at it. Life would truly become a work of art.

And outliving one’s enemies is so, so sweet.

If I could live damn near forever in a 35 year old body (my prime) I would… if anything just to experience everything I can. What sucks about living 70–90 years or so is that it limits the experiences you can have in life. I have several thousand years of stuff I’d like to do.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

Maybe if I was constantly reincarnated and had no knowledge or recollection of my past lives.

@Espiritus_Corvus outliving enemies???! What sweetness is left if they don’t know they’ve been outlived?

Yes but only if I could also have a cool houseboat docked on a little canal somewhere in the middle of Europe like Duncan McCleod and remained in my thirties.

But, I’d skip the part about chopping off the heads of other immortals. That could get downright tedious.

Plus, I’d have the coolest kick-ass soundtrack accompanimen.
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Who Wants to Live Forever by Queen
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https://youtu.be/_Jtpf8N5IDE
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Princes of the Universe
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https://youtu.be/zZ1WyBGG_Vw

Yes! I feel I have so much to learn still, I want to study more subjects, meet more interesting people, grow in whole new ways, I love living. The deal breaker would be: do I get a fit body? If the answer is no, then no point. I couldn’t do all the things I crave to do. I’d also hope the people I love live along with me. Else that would be just heartbreaking.

To live forever in a body that will be failing, no.

To live forever with friends and family dying around me, no.

To live forever and have to work forever? Hell no.

To live forever in a world that will be plagued by scarcity of resources, the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, terrorism all over my country’s soil, etc., no.

Only if it means reincarnation, where the body rejuvenates and the mind resets at least once a century.

Would I want to continue my present life forever? No.
Would I want to be Bill Gates forever? Start the test and ask me again in 25 years?

Only if I’m healthy. Or if not forever, the ability to live as long as I would like and to then die when I’m ready. So far, I don’t think life is long enough for me to be ready.

This subject has been explored in Casca, the Eternal Mercenary and related tales.

No, but I’m not in a hurry to die.

At Kolin, a battle in 1757, Frederick the Great is said to have demanded of the Guards, who seemed reluctant to advance:

“Rascals, would you live forever?”

Those who believe in life after death don’t have a choice.