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Originally Posted by WanderingOak  I wouldn't want to live forever. If it were just me, I would get lonely right quick, with everybody else dropping dead from old age etc. If EVERYBODY could live 'forever', then unless we could figure a cheap, non-polluting way off of this rock, we would be heading down the road towards environmental disaster as we exceeded the carrying capacity of our home planet. What would be the point of living forever if you and everybody you knew was starving to death, or dying from thirst? I don't know about the rest of y'all, but I don't want to live in the Monkey House.
Besides, I'm not afraid to die someday. I figure those who are must have lived a bad life... |
i appreciate the vonnegut reference.
lonliness is a problem you would have to solve prior to immortality i would assume. but i do also assume that if you were immortal, your friends and family would have that choice as well. its not like its a random draw or anything, once the breakthrough in science is made then we all have the choice to participate or not.
and over population and living conditions are problems that we have to solve even in our current lifespan, and even moreso if we start living forever. decisions would have to be made. in my opinion, we should already be making those decisions anyways.
environmental disaster is also a huge issue. something that i am very upset about, especially at my US government. again, i want to do something to fix it, and if was told i would live forever, i would feel even more compelled to fix the environment right away. because the world also needs to live forever (or as long as it is able)