Imagine how life would be if everyone was immortal

[Fang2]

Such a beautiful world. You'd be able to still be here 100k to 1 million+ years into the future. See all the advancements of civilization.

[Lunu]

Would be a tad crowded…

[Brommando]

You mean there'd be no emotion in the world, no winners nor loser

[Ace Corona]

Everyone would care more about the environment, because if a runaway greenhouse effect happens, we would all still be alive

[crupiea]

Seems that everyone at some point would be blind or missing legs and such.

Just because you are immortal it doesnt men your body parts grow back. if you got blinded by some accident, your eyes dont grow back, you just dont age.

Not to mention how many people would need dentures. So when you think about it, vampires probably have false fangs. Nothing about being immortal says your teeth grow back in if they get knocked out.

[Fang2]

Seems that everyone at some point would be blind or missing legs and such.

Just because you are immortal it doesnt men your body parts grow back. if you got blinded by some accident, your eyes dont grow back, you just dont age.

Not to mention how many people would need dentures. So when you think about it, vampires probably have false fangs. Nothing about being immortal says your teeth grow back in if they get knocked out.

What I mean by immortal is complete immortality. Nothing will ever happen to you. Even if the universe gets destroyed, you'd still exist.

[dingler]

You would end up with a God and a bunch of slaves. As soon as technology advanced far enough the elites would just create an undefeatable AI to control everyone else.

[Evantus]

Everyone would care more about the environment, because if a runaway greenhouse effect happens, we would all still be alive

take that boomers

[SoutheastBeast1]

People could stop coping about the importance of having kids. Wouldn't even have to worry about more being born because no one would want them lol

That's how you know parentcels are coping. If they were immortal, they would not still have them.

[chalup]

Matter isn’t created or destroyed so in essence we are immortal.

[Visel]

Well, if I lived to 100k+, and no one else did, my net worth would be #1 in the world within a fraction of my lifespan.

If everyone lived to 100k+, economy would be crazy as chit. And there'd be some phenomenon about how if someone dies young (1k or younger), that it means conserving thousands of generations worth of one person's consumption.

[Pats2022SBwin]

Would be a tad crowded…

Is that really you in your avi? I'm trying to decide if I want to break 'no fap January' or not.

[BrooksKoepka]

Being an incel for thousands of years seems scary

[Pats2022SBwin]

Seems that everyone at some point would be blind or missing legs and such.

Just because you are immortal it doesnt men your body parts grow back. if you got blinded by some accident, your eyes dont grow back, you just dont age.

Not to mention how many people would need dentures. So when you think about it, vampires probably have false fangs. Nothing about being immortal says your teeth grow back in if they get knocked out.

Also, imagine having herpes for all eternity.

[Ausaric]

Everyone would eventually die of injury or accident. The likelihood of that happening approaches 1 on a long enough timescale.

[redwine91]

Everyone would eventually die of injury or accident. The likelihood of that happening approaches 1 on a long enough timescale.

Immortal
Die

Pick one

[Ausaric]

Immortal
Die

Pick one

Sigh…I knew one of you would say this.


Immortal =/= Invulnerable

[redwine91]

Sigh…I knew one of you would say this.


Immortal =/= Invulnerable

Invulnerable =/= death

[ConTroLFreaKK]

I don't understand the appeal of eternal existence mainly because it's void of choice, i'm forced to exist for eternity even if maybe i don't want to.

Imo such an outcome is HELL.

[Lunu]

Is that really you in your avi? I'm trying to decide if I want to break 'no fap January' or not.

Lmao it is me, but would it really matter anyway

[Dontoewsmebro]

Lmao it is me, but would it really matter anyway

fukn lmao

[BigElephant]

What I mean by immortal is complete immortality. Nothing will ever happen to you. Even if the universe gets destroyed, you'd still exist.

Why would you want to live if there is no universe to observe?


I've thought about the different forms of immortality and how desirable they would be.

There's immunity to aging. Basically here no disease would ever kill you but you could still die in an explosion, car/plane accident, or any kind of violent act. This is desirable because the randomness aspect is still there, but you can also keep yourself relatively safe and you don't have to suffer from diseases.

There's immunity to aging + a healing factor or just straight up vulnerability. This has everything the previous option does plus you just don't get hurt physically. You would still cease to exist whenever the Earth does though, whether it's by the earth getting destroyed or losing its atmosphere or a cataclysmic event, or if it's a universe level event IE big crunch, heat death, et cetera.

Then finally there's complete immortality. This would have to transcend the physical body using technology that we can't even comprehend currently. You wouldn't need energy so the death of the sun or the complete diffusion of all heat/energy in the universe still wouldn't kill you.

I think it is definitely desirable to want to watch civilization progress, and eventually explore the cosmos and uncover the secrets of the universe. I used to dream about living long enough for technology to progress so that I could eliminate disease and upgrade my biological body so that I could live indefinitely, at least until cataclysmic tragedy.

I realize now through faith that this is not my place nor humanity's place. If that's not your thing, I'm not going to preach that in this thread as it's not the topic.

But unless you are a spiritual person who believes in another realm, then circling back to my original reply, I don't see the point in living after the universe is destroyed or dead, as there is nothing more to observe at that point.

[Bodhy]

That'd be a torture beyond all words, eventually. What do you do when the Earth becomes melted by the sun? What about when all stars are dead and the universe is populated by nothing but black holes?


You gonna float through space forever?

[Condo41]

We'd have to plan for hundreds of years the way we make 10 year plans.