You Immortality ?

Would you want a eternal life?

In the sense that I could live forever unless I was killed, yes. I'd choose to be immortal in a heartbeat.

I wouldnt mind living thru all the changes in the world..
i wish i could also go back in time. like the 40s and 50s..where life was less crimable

I would have to say no, as interesting as it might seem at times, I think I will see enough in my life, both good and bad.

Why would I want to see the world slowly degrading herself back to the nothingness she came from?

Well, you could live out in the Alaskan wilderness instead... at least until it's depleted. Then you could ask someone to chop off your head.

Hell no! (And heavens no, possibly.) I cherish the beauty of all-powerful, all-unpredictable, all-mysterious, all-ending death. My life depends on it.

Hanging onto life is what breeds most of the miseries of the world. And while I acknowledge that being immortal isn't necessarily the same thing, the wish stems from the same state of mind.

I don't mean to glorify death, but where is the glory of life without it?

No, I wouldn't know what to live for and eventually, life would get boring.

I'm going with the whole heck ya' part, I'll put 15 dollars in a savings accounts 200 years down the line I'll be semi rich... unless we hit some kind of hyper inflation. But I won't starve to death :)

But you can always ask someone to chop off your head! It's not like you'd keep living with your head detached from your body... You'd only keep living forever if your head is firmly in place.
I don't know. It sounds like a good deal to me. I think you guys are being naysayers.
SO yeah...
If anyone has the recipe, stir me up a batch of immorality. I will drink that baby all the way down.

I am a mild control freak. It is oddly liberating to leave my life to death. If I was given the choice to end my life anytime, I can't see myself ever choosing it (except for chronic pain, dependant old age, blah blah)

Well, maybe you'd be in an epic battle against 200 ninjas and your head would be "accidentally" chopped off by one fierce blow. You could enter the fight knowing your odds are crap.
Nevermind. Don't be immortal, see if I care!

Hell yes... being dead sucks.....

I wonder if there is a trend between little spiritual/religious faith and the wish to be immortal.

Of course thats why i say "Religion is a last grasp at immortality"

Aw, you wouldn't be the only immortal. You'd have Nicko and me to not grow old with... :) Hahaha!

Abby, I don't know if there's a correlation there. I'm becoming more religious than I was in the past, and in the past I would have chosen to pass up immortality.

Yeah I think I would want to live forever. The world is endless and always changing. No matter what, you could never get bored. There are goals you can aim to reach, things you'd see no one ever has before.

Who wouldn't want all those things?

Athena :)

There are many things I want to know mainly because I'll never know them.

Nope, life gets boring and I don't want to spend it all in one dimention... I would love to experience being something different and not only a human figure... I would like to be a spirit some time.

You're all mostly very young, so I don't think many of you know what it feels like to watch everyone grow old and die around you while you don't change and live on.

There is a great quote, I think by Emily Dickenson

"people wish for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy sunday afternoon"

I'm not that old, and I feel it's taken me an eternity to get here, to this age..and already alot of things bore me. I can't imagine living forever, it would be hell after a century or so.

Life is temp for a reason, and like Abby said it's preciousness lies in this very fact.

I'm restless enough as it is, sometimes. I think if I were to be immortal, I would get more and more detached from the world, and feel the wrongness of my living. I think I'd begin to envy all the creatures who got to end their lives in dirt and dust. I keep thinking of Bilbo in Lord of the Rings, talking about his long life: "I feel thin, like butter stretched over too much bread." I wouldn't mind living a couple hundred years, but eternity isn't for me.

Lol can you imagine how bored you will be in 10 billion years when the whole earth has been destroyed and your floating through space alone. or could you imagine having eternal life but not eternal youth. it would suck being 10000 years old and feeling every year

One day through genetic research we'll learn how to stabalize our aging, and freeze time, so to speak.

But of course that would have massive ramifications for having babies etc, course by then I expect we'll be very close to populating other planets, so rock on.

I have to say, I'd not want to be immortal, but having a good 100 years or so with the body and health I have now at 30, would be nice.

There is nothing cool about getting really old...nothing and anyone who tells you otherwise is full of crap.

You go spend a day or two in a nursing home and tell me being really old is anything but harsh.