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.

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

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:

The people who controlled it shouldn't offer it to the cretins, so you don't have to worry about it syntax

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.

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.

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 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

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

It isn't really fear, but definately an undesirable end that'd i'd like to avoid meeting.

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.

Life would become boring, likely there would be no pain if you could live forever.

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.

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.

Hell ya I would choose immortality, see http://www.transhumanism.org/ on the actual movement in progress to become immortal.

“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.

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

 

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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.

but what about bringing the dead back to life, that in a sense would be a form of imortality?

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.

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

It would enable intergalactic travel, but YIKES, it brings a whole new meaning to "Are we there yet?"

No if's No but's I want to live forever

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?

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.