Who wants to live forever?

[Nearly Sane]

Certainly not me.



http://theconversation.com/want-to-live-longer-consider-the-ethics-101301

[ippy]

Assuming it was possible I'd like to pop back every ten years or so as an observer just to see what's new, until I could no longer understand what's new.

Regards ippy

[Shaker]

It has always struck me that people who prattle on about 'for ever' still somehow think it means 'a very very long span of time but not endless' instead of endless which is what it actually means.

[wigginhall]

You also get the sense of without time, but this seems hard to understand, unless you've experienced it.

[Roses]

I have no wish to live forever.

[torridon]

I think living forever is a naive fantasy.  If we succeeded in becoming immortal we would sooner or later choose to end it anyway.  A nice essay on it here :

https://aeon.co/essays/theres-a-big-problem-with-immortality-it-goes-on-and-on?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=81069e50b7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_05_02_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-81069e50b7-69413141

[Udayana]

Hopefully, well before enabling everyone to live forever, we will allow people to choose to die when they want to.

[Shaker]

Amen to that.

[jeremyp]

I'd love to live forever - well a very very long time - but only if my body stops aging (or ideally returns to its state when I was in my early twenties) and most importantly, only if all my friends and family get the same deal.

It's much harder for me to see all my friends and family getting old and dying than it is to accept it for myself.

[Rhiannon]

Yes, I get that, Jeremy.

[Shaker]

I'd love to live forever - well a very very long time - but only if my body stops aging (or ideally returns to its state when I was in my early twenties) and most importantly, only if all my friends and family get the same deal.

It's much harder for me to see all my friends and family getting old and dying than it is to accept it for myself.

Does anyone else remember a low-budget British horror film from the 70s (think Hammer and Amicus - I grew up on those. Love them still) called The Asphyx? A Victorian scientist found a way to remove a person's soul from the body and transfer it to a stout box; as long as the box remained intact the person was immortal - he did it to himself and, IIRC, a guinea pig and both were still alive in the 1970s aged 180-odd, but in his case hideously ugly because he had aged so much.

[jeremyp]

Does anyone else remember a low-budget British horror film from the 70s (think Hammer and Amicus - I grew up on those. Love them still) called The Asphyx? A Victorian scientist found a way to remove a person's soul from the body and transfer it to a stout box; as long as the box remained intact the person was immortal - he did it to himself and, IIRC, a guinea pig and both were still alive in the 1970s aged 180-odd, but in his case hideously ugly because he had aged so much.

Yes, in fact I had that film very much in mind when I first formulated my conditions for becoming immortal.

[Shaker]

Somebody!