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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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haverhill · 13/08/2018 17:31

We’re just organisms, albeit massively complex ones. The idea of eternal life is abhorrent to me personally, but each to their own.

HolgerLowCarbingLoser · 13/08/2018 17:34

Fuck no.

DilianaDilemma · 13/08/2018 17:37

Not forever.

I think whoever answers yes to that either hasn't taken 'forever' in the literal sense or doesn't quite understand the concept of infinity.

I would opt to live for as long as I choose if promised a) my current physical state and b) the option to pull the plug on myself at a time of my choosing.

What bothers me most about my own mortality is that it feels a lot as though your favourite TV show gets cancelled mid-season, only worse: I really resent the notion that I'll die one day and won't get to see what happens next - even though I don't believe in an afterlife and operate on the assumption that I won't be around to be bothered when it happens.

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