For a while it would be great to be immortal - you can see how the generations pass and how the time,science and people chance with it. But im prettysure it would get booring after few hundred years. And also if this imortality is only for you - what about your family and the people close to you - you see your children and friends die and there will never be an end to it.

this topic makes me think of that movie "interview with a vampire". that vampire is immortal. he has another vampire friend. i mean... if i would have just one great friend with me, i would love to be immortal. coz i think that one lifetime is too short, i dont think i will manage to experience i want to experience... i mean... im 18 now, and i will die when im maybe 80... so i have 60 years left. i have spent my whole life so far with doing nothing at all... studying... just studying... i've lived 1/4 of my life already...

lol, this sounds depressing, but that's how i feel...

Written by Guest on 08.08.2006 at 19:09

this topic makes me think of that movie "interview with a vampire". that vampire is immortal. he has another vampire friend. i mean... if i would have just one great friend with me, i would love to be immortal. coz i think that one lifetime is too short, i dont think i will manage to experience i want to experience... i mean... im 18 now, and i will die when im maybe 80... so i have 60 years left. i have spent my whole life so far with doing nothing at all... studying... just studying... i've lived 1/4 of my life already...

lol, this sounds depressing, but that's how i feel...

I think many of us have contemplated these thoughts... Scary, isn't it?

yeah. that's why i think it would be great if heaven existed, coz then u could live in heaven when u die. or maybe hell, but i dont want that hehe

I think that the immortality depends on the things that a person makes during her life. that makes somebody while this alive one, that which will last in the time.
But at the same time, I think that nobody is immortal, because the time passes and the memories forget.

In my opinion immortality doesn't exist, not phsyically atleast. Time makes everything change, whether it be people or inanimate objects, nothing is unaffected. I've got a feeling that a persons soul is immortal, and i wonder what happens to our souls once they leave our physical shells?

i certanly hope that our "souls" live on in immoratality.. because try to think about it when we have lived our short lives, everything will begone and you whole life would be in vain because you have no memory of you life!

immortality would rock immensely, as long as i had endless youth. I'd spend a few centuries working, build up fabulous wealth, and spend the rest of my life in an endless whirl of socialising. And i'd set myself targets like taking over the world just for fun, then giving power back to the people over the course of a thousand years. You'd probably get used to your friends dying, and be able to learn to celebrate their lives properly.

It'd also be really cool to be able to lecture people about millenia-old history from first hand, with like pictures of me living the lifestyle of the time or what have you.

We cant really say what Immortality is like except for the man made ideology of immortality composed by religion. Religion says that Immortality is beautiful etc. but if God doesnt exist I think Immortality means physical everlasting life to which your body doesnt wither away. If thats immortality then I wouldnt want that.

But if Immortality is of the spiritual kind to where your spirit never ceases to exist than that would be good. Theoretically speaking, energy never dies; it just gets pushed into something else, so if we can figure a way to have reoccurring energy without inducing physical degeneration, eureka!

I'm satisfied this way.
If we live longer, a day will certainly come when we'll be satisfied with our life and would like to end it... anyway, this natural law of death is all right. nothing can exist forever, this is indeed true.

It soounds interesting. But if I had someone to share immortality with. Waht good would be to be immrtal and be completely alone? Friends die, family dies... Thx but no thanks. I agree with Pagablood. it is a law fo nature, nothing can exist forever.

immortality is not the life for me. Bearing with the losses of all your friends only to make more and lose them as well would suck much ass. Besides Life would become boring, living too long, and no man needs to live forever they would become a monster.

be like Valhalla has nothing to do with this but anyway yeah

I would kill to be immortal
people always bring up oh well what about your loved ones
but if you think about it after a few hundred years maybe they pass from memory
or their deaths dont hurt as much cause you have ways to deal with it
and i think after a few centuries youd be a loner and would kind of reject society

Mortality is the reality. Yet it is not difficult to come to terms with our impending death. Dying is as easy as going to sleep. The tough part is finding meaning in our daily lives knowing that we will ultimately lose everything. Living is the real challenge.

Written by Guest on 07.03.2008 at 22:22

Mortality is the reality. Yet it is not difficult to come to terms with our impending death. Dying is as easy as going to sleep. The tough part is finding meaning in our daily lives knowing that we will ultimately lose everything. Living is the real challenge.

u gotta be kidding me hahahaha

Written by akatana on 12.03.2008 at 12:02

...if you understand infinity than the prospect of an eternal life is not that appealing.

Not just infinite life on Earth, but anywhere. That's probably my biggest "non-logical" complaint about the idea of an afterlife. (At least in the cliche, non-Hinduistic-esque, view of it.)

The prospect of eternal life is tempting, but I must turn you down, as eternal life is nothing more than the poorly written fantasy of mortals who have become greedy. In fact, eternal life is by far the worst fate to ever befall a sentient being. Sure, the first million years might be fun, but what about the billion after that? and the trillion after that? and you still have an eternity left. Not only will you live for an eternity, but you will also live for an eternity after that, and an eternity after that, and an eternity after that. I understand fully well that life is finite, and I must live the only life I have to the fullest instead of believing in the bronze age superstition that a spark can last forever.

Written by akatana on 12.03.2008 at 12:02

On the other hand, I doubt that people really think of what it would be like to live eternally, if you understand infinity than the prospect of an eternal life is not that appealing. Of course it would be great to live on this earth more than we do now, I would love to see how the future will look like in 500 years, but I don't think I would want to live forever.

this sounds geeky lol, but the best thing would be not to have a normal, mortal life, but to be like the elves in tolkien's mythology: immortal but not indestructable(if you don't get killed by disease or something else, you do live forever). this means you could kill yourself at any time when you feel like it, not like in real immortality where you're trapped in the world like in a prison.

i think mortality is necessary. if someone could not die, that person would become reckless and would then becoma a danger for the people around him.

i would love live forever, at an optimum age, not as a really old person...i would hate seein everyone i know die though and being alone for all eternity seems kinda suckish

Depends on the kind of immortality. If you physically did not age and were pretty resistant to disease, BUT were subject to death by other means, e.g. body damage then it would be quite good eh, you could always just commit suicide when you'd had enough of it. One of the things I regret about being mortal is that I will die before society becomes at peace with itself and before we adventure into space.

Immortality doesn't seduce me for two main reasons. The first being that I'd have to watch everyone I love die - it's already hard as it is expected to be, I wouldn't need to witness any more deaths - and the second being... well, I just hope this doesn't come across like some sort of emo-ish wrist-cutting teenage paranoya, 'cuz it's certainly not, but if sometimes, as it is, I already feel I could move on right now because I'm doing nothing here, I don't want to imagine if I'd have to live longer than the normal time. What the hell for?
Oh, and of course, if that immortality didn't come with a health and youth guarantee attached, I wouldn't think twice about dumping it. Dear me, I fear getting old and sick as it is (for health and self-awareness only, not for looking ugly and wrinkled). The mere thought of one day becoming dependant on others to get fed, cleaned, moved around and so on, scares the living hell out of me.

As far as curiosity about the future is concerned, I agree it would be interesting to be around to see if mankind finally finds its way, but I think I'd eventually give up on it (mankind) and choose to switch channel, just like in a TV.

Written by Guest on 07.03.2008 at 22:22

Mortality is the reality. Yet it is not difficult to come to terms with our impending death. Dying is as easy as going to sleep. The tough part is finding meaning in our daily lives knowing that we will ultimately lose everything. Living is the real challenge.

True, I completely agree.

Written by Warman on 31.03.2008 at 00:25

Written by Guest on 07.03.2008 at 22:22

Mortality is the reality. Yet it is not difficult to come to terms with our impending death. Dying is as easy as going to sleep. The tough part is finding meaning in our daily lives knowing that we will ultimately lose everything. Living is the real challenge.

True, I completely agree.

This dude hit it head on i 100% agree