The only problem with immortality is that we don't have it.
The only problem with immortality is that we don't have it.
If you are immortal and World is destroyed just wait for another big bang. Its not like you dont have time for it.
why would you care about the end of the world?
-eventually entirely lifetimes will appear as mere blinks of an eye to you. being married to the love of your life is a big deal if you can be married for 60-80% of your lifetime. but after a million years those 100 years feel more like an hour does to you now. eventually it just loses all meaning. why bother with making new friends if they will die immediately from your perspective.
-what if you get stuck/buried somewhere? or worse, end up floating in space. or worse, that + pain. getting stuck somewhere is statistically inevitable, and will likely happen way before civilization dies off.
immortality is great for maybe a few thousand years, after that it becomes the worst torture imaginable.
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The human brain would go insane after weeks-months of 100% isolation and be blank long before you reached your first year.
Imagine if someone buried you in a box and you never needed food/water. There's no clock so you have no idea how long you've been in there. Then do that for an eternity.
"I'm not stuck in the trench, I'm maintaining my rating."
People deal with it now. It is likely based on our actual experiences that if one were immortal they would become quite adept at handling those transitory relationships.
When your heart is broken in your first relationship it's a lot tougher than when you are 40 and already been in several relationships. Et cetera.
Again, there is no rational basis to assume humans would be incapable of dealing with loss when we do so all the time. And we usually deal with it better then more life experience we accumulate.
If you can find it, I would suggest watching the movie 'The Man From Earth' It's a really good movie, and very engaging... And it takes place in 1 room, with like 7 people total.
i'm not a social animal.
immortality would not bother me. though i'd prefer to be immortal in a form that's not physical, so i could bounce around and watch different types of people live their lives.
Do you mean "doesn't age" or "God like"?
We all know what happened to "God" at the end.
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please tell me what you are going to do when you for example fall into the ocean and get dragged down a depth where your physical strength isnt enough to overcome the water pressure, so you can't walk on the bottom to get back to land. or any of a myriad of similar situations.