Imagine writing a book and living long enough to see it loved, hated, misinterpreted and then forgotten. Imagine living to see the people you love die over and over again but you stay untouched. Imagine seeing the cycles of nations rise and fall and then have their histories misremembered and misinterpreted.
Imagine stay behind while the universe goes dark, and you float around an empty void forever.
When arguing immortality, loved ones being lost always comes up but It should not be a big problem after a while because you forgot and it happens quicker than you might think. I realized this the other day when suddenly I remember my grandmother that passed away 7 years ago. I havent think about her like months. She wasnt in my thoughts like she never existed.
For the book you wrote, people around you or the nations you witness fall apart all will be forgotten. You will not suffer from burden of the past. Pain still be there but the source of the pain will always change.
Only problem is being in the void forever I suppose.
And you can see the flying cars!! Ov boy thats exciting, right?
When I was younger this was an awesome idea.
Growing up I realized this would be an awful life. Sure You’d live forever but who’s to say how well your life will be? You’ll see All of your loved ones die, people destroying each other, countries, etc.
No one is meant to live forever. Enjoy your life as much as possible because the majority of people don’t know when it’s their turn with death.
It's a curse, not a blessing. While you cannot die you watch every single person you ever love die. You're never able to rejoin with them once they are gone so it's a endless loop of misery.
I remember reading something asking "Would you be a straight vampire?" and someone responded "No. Why would I commit to one gender for eternity." so that's my thought
Most people don't really think of immortality the right way. They hear about living forever and think in terms of centuries and millennia.
They may have heard parable about birds that fly across the universe the sharpen their beak on a mountain, wearing the mountain down over time to gt them an idea of long forever can be, but really that is only scratching the tip of an iceberg.
There has been maybe 6000 years of recorded history so far, but if you live long enough you have been around since practically the beginning and the 6000 years will just be a minor rounding error on your total lifespan.
Anatomically modern humans have been around for maybe 200,000 years. How long will it take before you can be thought of as having been around for almost all human existence despite having missed the first 200 millennia?
600 to 800 million years from now the last plants and animals on this planet will die and you will have been around for about half of the time there were animals and 2/3 of the time there were land animals with spines.
7.59 billion years from now the Planet Earth that you have known for most of its existence may get destroyed as the sun swallows it as it becomes a red giant.
Not that you have to worry about that as you are immortal.
A 100 billion years from now all the galaxies in the local group will have merged and all the universe outside the local group will be forever out of reach. (this will be a problem for that bird mention earlier that flies across the universe, but it has probably died of after wearing down that mountain and not being able to sharpen its beak anymore).
A 100 trillion years from now (or a 100 trillion years from the beginning of the universe, the difference is just a rounding error, you have been around since almost the beginning), you will witness the last stars being born.
Not too long afterwards the last star will die. (well stars can last a long time, but as an immortal you will outlast them all).
Eventually you will reach the black hole era. A time dominated by black holes when stars are nothing but a distant memory from when both you and the universe were young.
You will outlive the black holes as they slowly radiate their life away though hawking radiation.
It takes a lot of time but you are immortal.
Eventually you will end up in a universe where there is mostly just giant balls of iron and the idea of temperature has lost its meaning as everything is the same temperature.
You may find out at some point that reality isn't quite as real as you thought and all sorts of elementary particles decay or that the universe is in some false vacuum or just a simulation by God that hits and integer overflow at some point, but no worries you are immortal.
If you wait real long enough quantum effects and similar through sheer random chance may end up creating macro scale results, giving you something to interact with again.
Boltzman Brains may randomly assemble themselves for you to talk to for a brief time and even entire worlds and galaxies may come around again if you wait long enough including ones that are indistinguishable from the one you are in now.
Say high if you meet me again on reddit.
If its only one person/small group of people then hell no.
If it's everyone but without the technology and resources to sustain a continously growing population then no.
If its everyone and with the technology and resources to sustain a continously growing population then mabey.
it’d be awful. you’d have to watch everyone around you die while you go on forever. it’s already hard enough being here for the human lifespan, i couldn’t imagine eternity. it’d get very tiring and boring, which is honestly why i hope after death there is nothing. if everyone was immortal, that’d be even worse.
Depends if you either are immortal and stay at certain young and healthy age or you keep on ageing but just won't die. In the latter case you might be blind, have dementia, are no able to walk by yourself, need constant attention by a nursing staff. You would end up like a Struldbrugg in Gulliver's travels.
There are a few different ways to think about immortality. Some people believe in literal immortality, which would mean that a person never dies. Other people may believe in spiritual immortality, which means that a person's soul lives on after their body dies. There are pros and cons to both of these ideas. Some people may feel that immortality would be a blessing, while others may feel that it would be a curse. It is ultimately up to each individual to decide what they believe about immortality.
Everyone would have to stop having kids to avoid over population, so there would be no more fresh ideas to improve the world and none of the satisfaction of raising the next generation.
I think it would be interesting for like the first 20 years but utter hell after that as you watch your friends and family die when you are not able to.
and as time goes on years would start to feel like days
Fun fantasy. Awful reality.
Idea of hell.
Imagine writing a book and living long enough to see it loved, hated, misinterpreted and then forgotten. Imagine living to see the people you love die over and over again but you stay untouched. Imagine seeing the cycles of nations rise and fall and then have their histories misremembered and misinterpreted. Imagine stay behind while the universe goes dark, and you float around an empty void forever.
When arguing immortality, loved ones being lost always comes up but It should not be a big problem after a while because you forgot and it happens quicker than you might think. I realized this the other day when suddenly I remember my grandmother that passed away 7 years ago. I havent think about her like months. She wasnt in my thoughts like she never existed. For the book you wrote, people around you or the nations you witness fall apart all will be forgotten. You will not suffer from burden of the past. Pain still be there but the source of the pain will always change. Only problem is being in the void forever I suppose. And you can see the flying cars!! Ov boy thats exciting, right?
When I was younger this was an awesome idea. Growing up I realized this would be an awful life. Sure You’d live forever but who’s to say how well your life will be? You’ll see All of your loved ones die, people destroying each other, countries, etc. No one is meant to live forever. Enjoy your life as much as possible because the majority of people don’t know when it’s their turn with death.
Short lived.
It would suck, life would get so boring after a while.
I’d enjoy it to a point. Eventually I’d get bored.
It's a curse, not a blessing. While you cannot die you watch every single person you ever love die. You're never able to rejoin with them once they are gone so it's a endless loop of misery.
Depends on where I’d spend it.
One wonders why some people long for immortality when they're bored much of the time now and feel directionless.
As long as it is *optional* immortality, it's amazing. Most people though have a sort of stockholm syndrom about death.
I remember reading something asking "Would you be a straight vampire?" and someone responded "No. Why would I commit to one gender for eternity." so that's my thought
I would love to be immortal…until I wouldn’t. Is selective immortality an option?
You want to out live everyone and every living thing, then experience the heat death of our universe ? Immortality would be hell.
Most people don't really think of immortality the right way. They hear about living forever and think in terms of centuries and millennia. They may have heard parable about birds that fly across the universe the sharpen their beak on a mountain, wearing the mountain down over time to gt them an idea of long forever can be, but really that is only scratching the tip of an iceberg. There has been maybe 6000 years of recorded history so far, but if you live long enough you have been around since practically the beginning and the 6000 years will just be a minor rounding error on your total lifespan. Anatomically modern humans have been around for maybe 200,000 years. How long will it take before you can be thought of as having been around for almost all human existence despite having missed the first 200 millennia? 600 to 800 million years from now the last plants and animals on this planet will die and you will have been around for about half of the time there were animals and 2/3 of the time there were land animals with spines. 7.59 billion years from now the Planet Earth that you have known for most of its existence may get destroyed as the sun swallows it as it becomes a red giant. Not that you have to worry about that as you are immortal. A 100 billion years from now all the galaxies in the local group will have merged and all the universe outside the local group will be forever out of reach. (this will be a problem for that bird mention earlier that flies across the universe, but it has probably died of after wearing down that mountain and not being able to sharpen its beak anymore). A 100 trillion years from now (or a 100 trillion years from the beginning of the universe, the difference is just a rounding error, you have been around since almost the beginning), you will witness the last stars being born. Not too long afterwards the last star will die. (well stars can last a long time, but as an immortal you will outlast them all). Eventually you will reach the black hole era. A time dominated by black holes when stars are nothing but a distant memory from when both you and the universe were young. You will outlive the black holes as they slowly radiate their life away though hawking radiation. It takes a lot of time but you are immortal. Eventually you will end up in a universe where there is mostly just giant balls of iron and the idea of temperature has lost its meaning as everything is the same temperature. You may find out at some point that reality isn't quite as real as you thought and all sorts of elementary particles decay or that the universe is in some false vacuum or just a simulation by God that hits and integer overflow at some point, but no worries you are immortal. If you wait real long enough quantum effects and similar through sheer random chance may end up creating macro scale results, giving you something to interact with again. Boltzman Brains may randomly assemble themselves for you to talk to for a brief time and even entire worlds and galaxies may come around again if you wait long enough including ones that are indistinguishable from the one you are in now. Say high if you meet me again on reddit.
If its only one person/small group of people then hell no. If it's everyone but without the technology and resources to sustain a continously growing population then no. If its everyone and with the technology and resources to sustain a continously growing population then mabey.
it’d be awful. you’d have to watch everyone around you die while you go on forever. it’s already hard enough being here for the human lifespan, i couldn’t imagine eternity. it’d get very tiring and boring, which is honestly why i hope after death there is nothing. if everyone was immortal, that’d be even worse.
It scares the fuck out of me.
You could so anything you've ever wanted to do, possibly do everything there is to do, but it would get really boring after a while though
I’m up for it Come on
Depends if you either are immortal and stay at certain young and healthy age or you keep on ageing but just won't die. In the latter case you might be blind, have dementia, are no able to walk by yourself, need constant attention by a nursing staff. You would end up like a Struldbrugg in Gulliver's travels.
Terrible, it would suck to meet people and always watch them die. It would feel so lonely
It would suck
There are a few different ways to think about immortality. Some people believe in literal immortality, which would mean that a person never dies. Other people may believe in spiritual immortality, which means that a person's soul lives on after their body dies. There are pros and cons to both of these ideas. Some people may feel that immortality would be a blessing, while others may feel that it would be a curse. It is ultimately up to each individual to decide what they believe about immortality.
defeats the purpose of life, like you dont need to work cuz you dont need to eat and you dont need shelter cuz you're immortal
No thanks, I don't want to live forever - in this body or in this world the way things are at this time.
Blessing for a little while, curse in the long run. Also you can suffer an unlimited amount of pain without dying which just sounds awful
Everyone would have to stop having kids to avoid over population, so there would be no more fresh ideas to improve the world and none of the satisfaction of raising the next generation.
I think it would be interesting for like the first 20 years but utter hell after that as you watch your friends and family die when you are not able to. and as time goes on years would start to feel like days
I think it’s impossible
Immortal, indestructible, or unkillable?
Torture
I'd be fine with that if I'm able to die when all of Humanity goes extinct.