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Do you want to be immortal?


Mr Rayon

Do you want to be immortal?  

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  1. 1. Do you want to be immortal?

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It also means never dying or decaying,

 

Not necessarily. There are a number of cautionary tales about people who wish for eternal life, but forget the eternal youth bit. ("Be careful what you wish for.")

 

and you don't have to be alive for that to happen.

You have to be alive to be immortal.

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I once read a science fiction story about how immortality was given to a man as a horrific punishment. He got on the bad side of a very powerful man by loving the mans daughter. The man injected him with nano technology that made him immortal, any time he died the nano tech would resurrect him with the materials on hand complete with his memories no matter what happened to him. The the poor guy was dumped on a planet comparable to Earth in the Cretaceous period, he would be chased down and eaten over and over only to be resurrected out of the excrement of the beast that ate him. Consumed alive to be brought back with all the wonderful memories of being eaten alive still fresh and vibrant in his mind...

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Another twist on the idea is Arthur C Clarke's All the Time in the World, where a woman gives a thief a device which makes time stand still so he can steal works of art. When she has got all the things she wants, she asks for the device back. They argue and eventually she lets him keep it, with some warnings. It turns out she is a time-travelling alien who wanted to rescue the art before the Earth is destroyed by a huge nuclear explosion. The explosion has already started so the only way the thief can survive is to keep time frozen and wander around alone. The moment he returns to "normal time" to talk to someone, he will be destroyed.

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Not necessarily. There are a number of cautionary tales about people who wish for eternal life, but forget the eternal youth bit. ("Be careful what you wish for.")

 

You have to be alive to be immortal.

 

 

Just a thought.

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Say your arm accidently gets cut off. Does that mean it grows back? After a while, what are the chances of having all your limbs? And what if everyone evolves and your left behind? That would be awkward. Imaging ULTIMATE segregation if the entire world was made immortal. The in evolved ones left behind as the evolved ones do what ever. That's an odd scenario....

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