fafalone Posted October 9, 2002 Share Posted October 9, 2002 With diseases being cured, new life-extending treatments, nanotechnology, stem cell research, etc, virtual immortality is right around the corner. Would you want to take advantage of this? Let us know how you weigh in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aman Posted October 9, 2002 Share Posted October 9, 2002 I've seen in many survival situations that there is really more to life than just what we experience. It's subjective but in my experiences I believe there is a next level to move on to. Something more than this. I'm in no hurry to get there but I personally have been convinced. Not by dogma or cons but by nature and circumstance. It's just my opinion. Just aman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Syntax Posted October 22, 2002 Share Posted October 22, 2002 One thing, life is nice, but what about the people that have already passed on? Theres a few people I plan on seeing when I'm up there, and I do not feel like living forever. Also, I dont think in our lifetimes we'll experience this, maybe toward the end, but I think in the end, the population would get to dense, and we'd be fighting for a place to live, unless of course we could live on Mars. :spam: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fafalone Posted October 30, 2002 Author Share Posted October 30, 2002 The people who controlled it shouldn't offer it to the cretins, so you don't have to worry about it syntax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudels Posted November 1, 2002 Share Posted November 1, 2002 The thought of immortality defies the point of nature in my opinion. Death is a part of life, the transition from physical sentience to who knows what. Death must be worth living for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ami Posted November 3, 2002 Share Posted November 3, 2002 death is a part of nature, besides immortality would cause over population, or at least the end of reproduction.... that is the importance of basic life isn't it? carry on the species. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raider Posted February 10, 2003 Share Posted February 10, 2003 Lacking faith in the afterlife, I fear death. Immortality is most definately a desirable goal, but I should hope that it came in such a fashion that I, and I alone, was able to end it should I become bored. (can't see this happening until we've found a UFT--a good ways off) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spuriousmonkey Posted March 21, 2003 Share Posted March 21, 2003 it is just my opinion of course, but I seriously doubt that immortality is around the corner...so therefore I cannot answer the poll seriously, but I would probably like to live longer if the quality of life was garanteed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocBill Posted March 21, 2003 Share Posted March 21, 2003 Originally posted by Raider Lacking faith in the afterlife, I fear death. Immortality is most definately a desirable goal, but I should hope that it came in such a fashion that I, and I alone, was able to end it should I become bored. (can't see this happening until we've found a UFT--a good ways off) It is only if you HAVE faith in the afterlife that you should be afraid. Shakespeare said it best: what dreams may come? If you are like me...convinced it is on to organic decay..nuthin else. There is nothing to fear--but fear itself (and fear itself is pretty scary!!) Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raider Posted April 30, 2003 Share Posted April 30, 2003 It isn't really fear, but definately an undesirable end that'd i'd like to avoid meeting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the GardenGnome Posted May 4, 2003 Share Posted May 4, 2003 Originally posted by dudels The thought of immortality defies the point of nature in my opinion. Death is a part of life, the transition from physical sentience to who knows what. Death must be worth living for. What he said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Demosthenes- Posted January 24, 2004 Share Posted January 24, 2004 Life would become boring, likely there would be no pain if you could live forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rasori Posted February 22, 2004 Share Posted February 22, 2004 My favorite view on life was mentioned in the Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. "Life is its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible." As such, to me, immortality isn't of any use. For one thing, you'd get bored quickly. Second of all, using the above as my reasoning of life, assuming my view on the qualities of evolution, the human body would lose the capacity to reproduce should we all be immortal. Hence life cannot be the propagation of more life. To put it simply, maybe an extended life, but not immortality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noz92 Posted July 31, 2004 Share Posted July 31, 2004 for those people who just want to live longer, if you delay the reproduction process you may be able to live a lot longer (after all, your point in life is to reproduce), and the aging process ends at aprx. 95 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Europa Posted August 1, 2004 Share Posted August 1, 2004 Hell ya I would choose immortality, see http://www.transhumanism.org/ on the actual movement in progress to become immortal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Technicist Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 “This is the outward and upward straining life-feeling.... The intoxicated soul wills to fly above space and time. An ineffable longing tempts him to indefinable horizons. Man would free himself from the earth, rise into the infinite, leave the bonds of the body, and circle in the universe of space amongst the stars.” -Oswald Spengler Well it's fairly obvious how I feel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paganinio Posted August 20, 2004 Share Posted August 20, 2004 NO ONE LIVES FOREVER even if the technology is there, some disaster/accident could kill us too, and i don't want to live forever DEFINITELY, I am sure that's the most terrible thing in the world WE NEED TO DIE P.S.FEEL FREE TO EDIT MY POST IN ORDER TO ADJUST MY FONT SIZE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted August 20, 2004 Share Posted August 20, 2004 i think that i would, just to be different, so that people cant say to me "if not now, when?" then i can say, ahhh, in a few millions years maybe! i doub that this will ever be. i doubt that the technology will come around, we will still age, and after a certain amount of ageing, we die, it is natural, it will be hard to stop it... and even if we could, i doubt it would become public. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noz92 Posted August 20, 2004 Share Posted August 20, 2004 but what about bringing the dead back to life, that in a sense would be a form of imortality? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucidDreamer Posted August 20, 2004 Share Posted August 20, 2004 I think we will accomplish it; well, at least we will be able to live for extraordinary lengths of time. Nothing lasts forever (or does it). I don't know what alot people have against living for really long periods of time. It seems that quality of life would come along with long life. All of your friends and family get it too and if you really want to end it then you could do that as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noz92 Posted August 20, 2004 Share Posted August 20, 2004 yes, but unfortunatly, that would cost quite a bit of money, for example, criogenics, that cost so much money, and most people don't even believe it can happen, most people don't believe in how advanced our technology is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coquina Posted August 20, 2004 Share Posted August 20, 2004 It would enable intergalactic travel, but YIKES, it brings a whole new meaning to "Are we there yet?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauss Posted August 21, 2004 Share Posted August 21, 2004 No if's No but's I want to live forever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thales Posted August 21, 2004 Share Posted August 21, 2004 Have any of you read Greg Bear's: Eon. It has the idea of a mainframe that stores people consiousness after their bodies pass on. Would any of you change your view on immortailty if you were robbed of your body but got to your mind got to live in a pseudo-matrix? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamLord Posted August 21, 2004 Share Posted August 21, 2004 I think I probably would take the chance to live forever. Of course, not the way Thales put it. That wouldn't be much of a life at all. I'd want to have my body (in good and healthy condition) forever if I were to live forever. And I mean my original body at that. Otherwise, I'll just let life take its course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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