Mortality or Immortality?

but it would be so damn lonly........ i'd like to be like bejamin buttons

 

I thought you were the 'I was born alone and I will die alone' guy?

Moving on, would it really be so lonely to have a universe of relationships, some good, some bad, knowing that they will all end? Don't we live like that anyway?

 

im not refering to me...... im refering to others and what they say.....

 

immortal is great...but then, when life get boring, what will the immortal do?

 

I just remembered a story about the mythological creature the centaurs, i forgot its name but the story goes that Centaurs are immortals and i think one of them was mortally wounded by accident but since they are immortal, they cant die and just suffer in agony of that wound forever.

But i think Zeus made that centaur in to a constellation or something... i forgot the story so i might be wrong in everything about that.

 

yea true what if you get sick, with a horrible disease.... you gonna suffer for eternity
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Slightly off: Shouldn't immortality come with invincibility(impervious from any kind of disease)?

 

I dont think so
immortality has nothing to do with invincibility

 

So you're like immortal, but you can be hurt.

That I wouldn't like if ever a contract of power like immortality is presented to me.

 

Yeah

eternal pain sounds painful

 

really painful, like being stabbed in your stomach every second of your life

 

Would you take that pain in order to watch your family grow up or to see the world around you change?

 

its a battle of physical pain and emotional pain, watching the ones you love and things you hold close to your heart whiter and die right infront of your eyes and knowing you cant stop that.... how about seeing that over and over and over again

 

dhanash, is that not how we live today? Consider those that live to be 100+ imagine the world changes, the friends and lovers lost, yet they go on.
I would imagine if such a life was extended the pain and loss would get much easier. Not to be crass, but to take a 443rd lover and loose that love must be much easier than loosing a second or third love. At the same time I wonder if given the time of immortality do we simply become nihilistic in relationships, do we as humans, having seen it all before stop caring about each other and therefore devolve into a less than human species?
I guess if we are to beat the current human life cycle we need to do it as a herd. To be out there alone as an immortal is to become the worst thing in human society, an alien.

 

exactly, maybe some persons may change and adapt to the pain and suffering and practically become amune to all that and don't give a crap about anything all i think is that immortality wouldnt be nice

 

I'd choose immortality, and then hide off somewhere until space travel gets more advanced, and then go explore the galaxy, and find some life out there, since I know we cant be the only planet with life in existence.

 

@shinukage09, I think the thoughts of Timothy Leary may interest you. He is dead but google his name and enjoy a great read about an amazing and very odd person. Timothy Leary is very much part of this topic.

 

nice intentions, but i bet you'd get fed up of waiting

 

yeah, that's right

 

only reason i would want to be immortal is if my dream is to make this place a better place, well actually it is but being immortal is impossible right now