Thread: Eternal Life, Would You?

Originally Posted by Killuminati

Oh and you can kill yourself in this scenario of eternal life so anyone who says they don't want it is either dumb or lying.

I don't want to kill myself.

Originally Posted by gwahir

I don't want to kill myself.

So have someone else kill you, take something that will kill you painlessly in your sleep or something.

Originally Posted by Killuminati

Eternal life would be fucking awesome. So you have to deal with your loved ones dying, you will get over it. You would get to see the evolution of humans first hand, visit anywhere in the world/universe and be around for everything. I think that would be amazing.

Yeah, so you can see the eventual self destruction of your own race.
No thanks.

Interesting, sure. Awesome, yeah I guess.

Still would rather not see that and watch my loved ones die over and over.

But if you could kill yourself at any time what's the problem. If you foresee humanity shitting the bed kill yourself. If you can't bear to watch your loved ones die kill yourself with them. Why wouldn't anyone want the option of living forever.

Originally Posted by Killuminati

But if you could kill yourself at any time what's the problem. If you foresee humanity shitting the bed kill yourself. If you can't bear to watch your loved ones die kill yourself with them. Why wouldn't anyone want the option of living forever.

Why would you?

Having an infinite amount of something makes that thing worthless. Having a limit gives your life value. Besides, I'd rather have a real human experience with an expiration date than something so far removed from humanity as to be alien.

I see no attraction to living forever, except for satisfying the curiosity of what happens after I'm dead, but when I'm dead I won't be curious anymore so I don't really care about that.

Some advice for the next time you feel like calling people with different wishes to you "liars" or "dumb": don't.

Originally Posted by Killuminati

But if you could kill yourself at any time what's the problem. If you foresee humanity shitting the bed kill yourself. If you can't bear to watch your loved ones die kill yourself with them. Why wouldn't anyone want the option of living forever.

lol thats a pretty skewed way of looking at things man.

Also, I don't consider eternal life having the option of killing yourself. Doesn't really seem that eternal...

But of course humanity will destroy itself. Its just a matter of time. It's no reason to kill myself though.
I mean, we're always looking for new power sources, and everytime we find a new one, it will just mean more powerful weapons.
It really is just a matter of time.

Also for the loved ones kill them/yourself with them, lol I assume you're kidding.


And yes, gwahir brings another valid point. If you live forever, you won't value anything.

Killing yourself is an option though, as is dying through some freak accident/murder etc. It's all in the OP.

No, I would not want unconditional eternal life, it would probably suck, that was never the point though.

ok well. maybe then i would have it.






not rly eternal though is it.

Well, you're not a god but you get to live forever provided nothing bad happens to you. That's potentially a very very very long time up to the end of human existence, so it's relatively eternal.