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Would you live forever if technology allowed?

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blurredspeech · 13/08/2018 09:18

If the technology existed which meant people couldn't die, would you choose to use it to live forever?

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thereareflowersinmygarden · 13/08/2018 09:19

In what state?

OwlinaTree · 13/08/2018 09:20

If I could stay about the age I am (40ish). Not if I had to be an ancient person with no mobility, health issues (over 80?)

UpstartCrow · 13/08/2018 09:21

No I wouldn't. You'd reach the point where you had seen all the films before, read all the books, seen all the places and had all the conversations. The only way you wouldnt die of boredom is if you could have your memory wiped so you could do it all again, so its pointless.
We'd have to stop having children. All the people alive today are the only ones who would exist, for the rest of human history.
Its my idea of hell.

treaclesoda · 13/08/2018 09:23

No. Doesn't appeal.

Unless I suppose all my nearest and dearest could use it and live forever too.

But imagine being about 400 years old and trying to keep up to date with technology and changing language. Sounds too exhausting to be much fun.

StorminaBcup · 13/08/2018 09:23

Depends on what you mean by living and who owns the technology.

twosunbathingdogs · 13/08/2018 09:23

I can’t imagine anything worse especially if health, mobility and money were an issue.

Wemadeit · 13/08/2018 09:24

No thanks. What would be your motivation for doing anything?

MissusGeneHunt · 13/08/2018 09:25

If I stopped aging, regained health and all my family and friends were also able to, then yes. However, I'm also looking forward to growing old very, very disgracefully!

RebelRogue · 13/08/2018 09:26

Nope,wouldn't even cross my mind.

DayKay · 13/08/2018 09:26

Yes if I could be healthy, the people I loved could be healthy and live forever too.
I’m so intrigued by what the world could be like in the future.

Bluelady · 13/08/2018 09:26

Not the way the world's going now. I'm quite comforted by knowing I'm closer to the end of my life than the beginning.

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blurredspeech · 13/08/2018 09:27

I mean if technology allows you to be regenerated so that if you were to die or get ill, you could be respawned and have your original memories replanted in a new well body, that was whatever age you choose and not ill etc.

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MrsBlaidd · 13/08/2018 09:27

No. Can't think of anything worse. Immortality means working forever because you couldn't plan for a retirement that has no end unless you're a billionaire with substantial assets that create interest you can live off.

haribosmarties · 13/08/2018 09:28

yes totally if I could be healthy and reasonably young forever. And if the people I loved could also do it if they liked.

MaggieAndHopey · 13/08/2018 09:29

I find the idea exhausting. The concept of eternity is so mind-bogglingly huge. I'd take a couple of hundred extra years so long as I also had the means to do a lot of travelling and mentally I could stay tip-top. I'd study a lot, I like the idea of being an expert in lots of different specialties.

YouBetterWORK · 13/08/2018 09:30

Practically, if everyone went for it but we are still procreating overpopulation would screw us over. But non practically if I'm in general good health, faculties all there etc...it would be tempting I have to say.

Considering how far we've leapt in the last 100 years, I would love to see how far we go. Things like: Do we ever find other life out there, do we achieve colonization of other worlds in order for the human race to live on? The kind of stuff you see in scifi really. I am very curious as to how it all turns out. Then again it could all go to shit. Forever is a bit much, I would prefer to be able to go "right, I've had enough, time to pop me clogs".

MaggieAndHopey · 13/08/2018 09:31

"Not the way the world's going now."

Perhaps if everyone lived much longer we might have a bit more of a vested interest in not cocking stuff up so much!

TheLadyArmitage · 13/08/2018 09:32

Not through technology -

I would if it was physically possible though.

Georgina125 · 13/08/2018 09:33

No. Life is too long anyway. My baby son passed away and is waiting for me. No way I want this horrible life in this useless body for longer than I have to.

TheLadyArmitage · 13/08/2018 09:34

Although thinking about it now - forever is too much. What happens if you outlive the planet! Lol.

I'd like a couple of hundred extra years like someone else has said but not forever.

AnoukSpirit · 13/08/2018 09:35

Don't much fancy being respawned, thanks. Grin

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blurredspeech · 13/08/2018 09:37

Sorry, I didn't know how else to phrase it Grin.

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Storm4star · 13/08/2018 09:43

Definitely not. I don’t like the way society is going and like a pp said, I am happier to be nearer the end of my life than the beginning. I’ve had some hard times and a lot of pain, physical and emotional. No way would I want to sign up for more years of that! It’s a firm no from me!

Frosty6611 · 13/08/2018 09:45

If I could live for another 100 years in a healthy younger body with my DP and family then I would. Any longer than that would be too much though. The world is becoming more and more of a shitty place as the years go by so I dread to think of the state of the planet in the next 150-200 years

CigarsofthePharoahs · 13/08/2018 09:48

Heck no.
I've seen Altered Carbon, I think it's probably not too far off what might happen if the technology became possible.
I'd settle for tech that let me have a standard lifespan in very good health.