The conditions of forever would need to be very specific for me to agree, but overall I am in favor.
There'd need to be a way for me to "opt out" whenever I chose. Like let's say there's a meteor coming and it's going to blow up the planet, I wouldn't want to be the one remaining person just floating in the void because I Can't die. I would want to be like "Hey, this sucks, time for me to go" and then die.
There would also need to be a regeneration, aging, and control-over-body factor as well. I'd need to be able to survive a harsh environment like space or something, I'd like to be able to control how I age (or freeze my aging around my low-40's or something), and I would need some sort of healing factor.
Basically I don't want to be in one of those "careful what you wish for" Devil bargains where I'm immortal but if my head is cut off then I'm just a disembodied conscious head; no, screw that, my head grows back instantly and my wounds heal and if I am burned for being a which I can tolerate the pain.
Outside of that, I think I would cope well.
- I have non-traditional views on death, so I think I could handle outliving people I love.
- I generally have a positive outlook on life outside of myself, even when the world seems to be going to shit (as it has been for the last 20 or so years).
- I am already depressed as hell and manage to cope with it; if I ever got my shit together, I might actually start to really enjoy my life for myself.
- For me the biggest reason to live forever is answers. I just want to see where things go.
I am not sure why people tend to take a negative view towards immortality, at least not on an individual basis. If humanity as a whole could be immortal, well that would be a HUUUUUUUUUUUGE problem, but if you are just speaking about one person like yourself then that's no issue.
I see nothing but positives and few negatives. Life would essentially become an experience, and not work. As a mortal it's like you're born and then you are forced to do this checklist until you're 18. Then you get a new checklist and you need to do all that stuff by the time you're 35. OK so now you got a job and a wife and a kid, now you get a new checklist to do until you're 65. If things went well, well, now you don't really have a checklist, now you just sort of try to pass the time until you die in a couple decades.
If I was immortal? Shit man, there'd be no checklist. I'd take some money out and hop on a train and travel. When I found a town I liked, I'd stay there and get a job. Get to know the people. Maybe open a business. When I got bored after 20 years I'd hand off the business to the community and then I don't know travel to Vietnam. I'd learn the language and maybe stay there for 100 years, really absorbing the culture until I was in fact a Vietnamese (not in blood, but simply by virtue of living the life).
Maybe there's WWIII and I join up to fight the good fight. That'd be terrible but since I'm immortal maybe I am in special forces lol and I kick some ass, save the day.
Maybe I spend a century or two as a "bad guy" and live as a hitman, taking out targets. Maybe I find religion for a few decades before realizing I've wasted my time, but spent it all doing good charity work.
Then I live to see the new world formed; a post-scarcity, no-currency social utopia like in Star Trek.
Speaking of sci-fi, I wonder when we land on Mars. Colonize mars. Terraform mars into an earthlike planet. I get to find all that out.
Maybe I have kids. Maybe I have A LOT of kids. I get to meet a lot of people, love a lot of women. Maybe some men, too; after all I am immortal, I should try everything.
Ooof, long rant. But yeah being immortal would be great provided it's not like the movie Death Becomes Her.
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