(July 24, 2017 at 6:36 am)Brian37 Wrote: You would not be "resting" you'd simply be dead. I agree though, I don't want to live forever. Especially now having seen my mom go through all her old age health problems and slow decline. The good thing about death is that you wont feel anything afterwords. But no, I don't want to die soon either. I simply don't want to have a slow painful death.Supposing that you had biological immortality -- that you didn't suffer from declining health, or from disease at all? That would change the equation for you because you fear dying, not death. It's the process, not the result.
THEN the question would become, would life eventually become a hellscape for other reasons -- such as hedonic tone rendering life insufferably boring, or because of the fatigue of unresolved (and perhaps to to some extent, unresolvable) existential pain? Some people can't imagine reaching that point, or imagine eluding it. I'm not sure. I'd like the option to try, but might not want to have more experiences forever. Beyond a certain point, it's quite possible that all additional experiences would not be "new", just the same or highly derivative of previous experiences.
