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Would you live forever if technology allowed?

78 replies

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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Cutietips · 13/08/2018 09:49

Georgina125 Flowers. So sorry for your loss.

I think the fact that life has a limit makes it more interesting. You have to pack things in and appreciate what you have more.

As I get older I realise I’m more tired. In another forty years I really can’t imagine wanting to push on.

Also I love the idea that the younger generation takes over and does things their way. I’d hate the idea of twonks like Boris and Gove being around for ever -clinging to power like grim death-.

vampirethriller · 13/08/2018 09:52

No.

StorminaBcup · 13/08/2018 09:54

Is it available to absolutely everyone? Just thinking if I could live in a world alongside an immortal Farage or Trump for instance Hmm

Boofay · 13/08/2018 10:33

It would be an incredibly selfish thing to do. We'd overpopulate the earth and make it impossible for people to have children.
Only rich People could afford to do it, meaning that they'd be a greater divide between the rich and the poor.

Death is scary as shit, but trying to live forever is scarier. Plus Earth's lifespan is finite, meaning we'd all have to kick the bucket eventually.

ShatnersWig · 13/08/2018 10:41

Absolutely not.

Gottagetmoving · 13/08/2018 10:43

Oddly, The idea of living forever scares me as much as dying does.

SerendipityFelix · 13/08/2018 10:47

Altered Carbon is an uneasy dystopia based on this idea. Having said that, you could still die, if you chose.

Sallystyle · 13/08/2018 10:50

No. I would be bored shitless. There would be no point of anything. You wouldn't appreciate much, nothing would be exciting because you would have done it so many times. The thought of living forever fills me with dread.

Oliversmumsarmy · 13/08/2018 10:58

Definitely Yes. Eternal youth would be great..

I would love to be young forever.

lola212121 · 13/08/2018 11:01

Yes , I would ! How could you ever be bored ? So many countries !! So many things to do !! Impossible . Nothingness is what scares me , eternal life is my idea of heaven .

McNutty · 13/08/2018 11:02

Good grief! NO!NO!NO!No!NO!

There a reason why they say, ‘Gone to his/her eternal rest.

No more striving, done and dusted.

McNutty · 13/08/2018 11:11

@Boofay. You must watch Justin Timberlakes film titled ‘In Time’, it’s depicts exactly what you said..

Sallystyle · 13/08/2018 11:13

Yes , I would ! How could you ever be bored ? So many countries !! So many things to do !!

Once you have seen all those countries loads of times then what? Are we getting endless money with our eternal life? If not we would have to work for eternity to be able to travel.

Things like travelling are exciting and life changing because our time on earth is so short, and because we can't do it regularly enough for it to becoming boring. After 400 years of travelling the world I am sure it would become boring. We tend to take things for granted when we have such easy access to them.

Life can be hard, sometimes it is brutal. To think I would have to live forever and go through the normal ups and downs of life forever is like a living nightmare. I have a good life, but life still has really crappy periods and sometimes a lot of pain.

I want there to be nothing when we die. Eternal rest please.

RaspberryRuffless · 13/08/2018 11:14

Yes! I'm terrified of dying, like, lie awake at night worrying about it terrified.

McNutty · 13/08/2018 11:15

@Lola How can you be scared of nothingness? Nothingness is what it says, ‘Nothing’.

McNutty · 13/08/2018 11:17

Rasp - Are you actually scared of dying or how you will die? .

The80sweregreat · 13/08/2018 11:17

No way.

seventhgonickname · 13/08/2018 11:21

I'd be happy with something that would improve my declining mobility and arthritic aches so that I can live the life I have well.

McNutty · 13/08/2018 11:22

@Georgina Flowers.

Lacypants · 13/08/2018 11:23

Nope, I suspect that by the end of my life it will be a blessed relief.

Gottagetmoving · 13/08/2018 11:32

We need to renew life and progress, that would never happen if people lived forever.
On Mumsnet people are often at odds with the older generations attitudes to parenting or life in general so that would get worse between old and young.

RaspberryRuffless · 13/08/2018 11:37

McNutty - I'm not sure really, I think probably more scared of how I'll die. Just the unknown.

HRTpatch · 13/08/2018 11:39

No.
I would like to be asked annually from the age of 80 if I would like to stay alive and be given the opportunity to shuffle off this mortal coil.

Ignoramusgiganticus · 13/08/2018 11:41

I might be interested if I was fit and able. Would like to lose some of the wrinkles though.

User12879923378 · 13/08/2018 11:47

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.

Oooooo. Am I even the same person in this scenario, or do I die and get replaced by a new person who thinks they're me?

Assuming the former, I am honestly not sure. I would like to live until I was fed up with it and I think people do get fed up with it if they live long enough although I am not sure how much of that is having run out of things to do, as opposed to being so infirm that you can't do what you'd like to do.