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Would you rather live forever or die?
April 8, 2014 at 4:05 pm
(This post was last modified: April 8, 2014 at 4:05 pm by Phatt Matt s.)
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?
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RE: Would you rather live forever or die?
April 8, 2014 at 4:11 pm
I'd probably want to live for a couple hundred years but after that I think I want to die.
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RE: Would you rather live forever or die?
April 8, 2014 at 4:18 pm
Depends on the variables
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RE: Would you rather live forever or die?
April 8, 2014 at 4:21 pm
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.
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RE: Would you rather live forever or die?
April 8, 2014 at 4:27 pm
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.
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RE: Would you rather live forever or die?
April 8, 2014 at 5:14 pm
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.
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RE: Would you rather live forever or die?
April 8, 2014 at 5:22 pm
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I will need an infinite amount of time to thoroughly ponder all the subtle implications of either option.
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RE: Would you rather live forever or die?
April 8, 2014 at 5:32 pm
(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.
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