Just wondering how many people here look forward to death. I don't mean you look forward to having a short life but would you rather die some day than live forever? Of course, if life were roses and euphoric all the time, no one in their right mind would ever want to die. But is life really all that great?

I'd probably want to live for a couple hundred years but after that I think I want to die.

Depends on the variables

If I was immortal, the odds are 100% that I'd eventually become trapped. I'd eventually fall into a deep hole, or stuck under water, or under a huge rock, and be trapped for all eternity. Fuck that.

It would be interesting to see what the future holds, for instance what new scientific discoveries would be made, which path the technical stuff like computers, phones etc will take.
But on the other hand i already can feel that my body starts to slowly break down, i run for a little bit and i have to recover for couple of days now
So when my time comes i would like to rest eternally

I'd like my consciousness preserved if it is possible before I die. Preferably where I could 'power off' for a couple of centuries and check in with my ancestors. That would be badassery.

No way I would want to be immortal. I find it difficult enough relating to anyone under 20 as it is now - in another 50 years, forget it.

Eighty something will do me fine.

(April 8, 2014 at 4:21 pm)ThePinsir Wrote: If I was immortal, the odds are 100% that I'd eventually become trapped. I'd eventually fall into a deep hole, or stuck under water, or under a huge rock, and be trapped for all eternity. Fuck that.

Yeah I never thought of that. What if a landside buries you alive and you have to spend eternity like that. Damn that would suck. Maybe you could sleep for the rest of your eternity dreaming wet dreams. Then would you be okay with it?

I will need an infinite amount of time to thoroughly ponder all the subtle implications of either option.

(April 8, 2014 at 4:05 pm)Phatt Matt s Wrote: Just wondering how many people here look forward to death. I don't mean you look forward to having a short life but would you rather die some day than live forever? Of course, if life were roses and euphoric all the time, no one in their right mind would ever want to die. But is life really all that great?

Infrastructural questions would abound if we were to live eternally. What would our retirement age be? How would that affect the budget? Especially if we aged at he same rate, thus making it still appropriate to retire at 65.

As much as I love life, and Earth, living forever would create more hardships than one realizes.