Immortality: Yes or No?

[MrDawn]

If you could become immortal on the condition you would NEVER be able to die or kill yourself, would you choose immortality?

 

[Crystal]

No. One life is enough, I'm ready whenever.

 

[MrDawn]

No. One life is enough, I'm ready whenever.

Yeah. Life sucks as it is. When it's time for me to die, I don't mind going to oblivion.

 

[shortkut]

No, watching everyone die, needing to work for money forever, mental faculties failing, other bodily parts failing

 

[Jawneh]

If I could always stay in my prime, at like early 20s physically and not deteriorate, then maybe. I'd be afraid of some nut jobs figuring me out and locking me away for eternity for whatever horrible reason.

So probably not. Would be very conditional from the get go to agree to it.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

I'm going to live forever.

 

[Jay™]

No thanks.

 

[Benzine]

The answer is easily no, it's beyond way too long.

More caveats or ways to die and I'm happy to revisit.

I would certainly love a longer longer longer life, but where I stay physically (at least able to play contact sport) and mentally capable (basically just the same as I am now). But I think the most likely outcome of accepting this is spending the majority of your time with no one or nothing, drifting about in space, choking, yet undying.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

there are no answers in death. Nothing to experience. You die, then cease to exist only to turn to dust.

Death scares me more than anything besides not being able to remember anything. I'd prefer it to never happen.

 

[Jawneh]

Death scares me more than anything besides not being able to remember anything. I'd prefer it to never happen.

I'm kind of the opposite. My death really doesn't currently phase me. When it happens, it happens. Not my problem anymore. What I worry is the repercussions of my death to friends and family. If there happens to be something after that then that's when I find out.

Memory loss would be... Kind of interesting to experience. I've already internalized that even if that happens, the people around me should be the people I trust, so I won't be going completely insane myself and attack people. Unless that plan also gets forgotten. Then I might be boned.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Memory loss would be... Kind of interesting to experience. I've already internalized that even if that happens, the people around me should be the people I trust, so I won't be going completely insane myself and attack people. Unless that plan also gets forgotten. Then I might be boned.

Alzheimers is the big disease that scares me. There is no proven prevention, there is no cure. No treatment for it. You forget people, you forget things, you forget how to live. I fear Alzheimers more than things like cancer or MS. I also don't look forward to potentially needing to rely on others to live. I'm a lone wolf.

 

[Crystal]

Alzheimers is the big disease that scares me. There is no proven prevention, there is no cure. No treatment for it. You forget people, you forget things, you forget how to live. I fear Alzheimers more than things like cancer or MS. I also don't look forward to potentially needing to rely on others to live. I'm a lone wolf.

Having watched it take my mother, piece by piece, over this past 8 years, I agree. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy, and if I ever found out I had it, I'd find a way of not burdening those around me with looking after me.

 

[Jawneh]

Alzheimers is the big disease that scares me. There is no proven prevention, there is no cure. No treatment for it. You forget people, you forget things, you forget how to live. I fear Alzheimers more than things like cancer or MS. I also don't look forward to potentially needing to rely on others to live. I'm a lone wolf.

Yeah, I do agree there. It took one of my grandpas. "Luckily" it came and he passed within months after that, so none had to suffer too much. The one time I met him before him passing he thought I was his son, even though he was right there with me that time. Mental things are nuts no matter how you look at it for sure.

 

[shortkut]

I'm a lone wolf.

Voting Fool’s Requiem

 

[shortkut]

kut is going through withdrawal.

Sorry, it was a reflex

 

[Fool's Requiem]

Sorry, it was a reflex

shame Ants isnt playing anymore

 

[VashTheStampede]

If that's what it takes to see Brandon Sanderson Jr complete the Kingkiller Chronicles and A Song of Ice and Fire, then I'm in.

 

[The Flame]

Absolutely not. Long life doesn't equal good life. And regardless of the quality of your life on Earth, it will be nothing compared to the endless nothingness that comes once the Earth is gone, the Sun explodes, and you're just floating in space alone. You would go insane. Even worse: immortality doesn't necessarily mean invincibility. What if you are brutally mutilated by something, and still feel the pain, but just can't die?

 

[VashTheStampede]

Absolutely not. Long life doesn't equal good life. And regardless of the quality of your life on Earth, it will be nothing compared to the endless nothingness that comes once the Earth is gone, the Sun explodes, and you're just floating in space alone. You would go insane.

I would simply transcend

Skill issue

 

[Mark]

Alzheimers is the big disease that scares me. There is no proven prevention, there is no cure. No treatment for it. You forget people, you forget things, you forget how to live. I fear Alzheimers more than things like cancer or MS. I also don't look forward to potentially needing to rely on others to live. I'm a lone wolf.

For real… I watched that shit take my grandfather’s mind apart piece by piece in such a short period of time, I wouldn’t ever wanna put my family or myself through that.

 

[VashTheStampede]

Immortality was my Game of the Year in 2022

 

[shortkut]

I would simply transcend

Skill issue

Better to ascend