So, your given the chance to live forever....

[AngelGrinder]

Do you take it?

Lets say you can still die in an accident, or be killed etc, but rather than grow old and die...you don't. The bodies natural ageing process is shut off, your body can already repair and replace itself, let's say some new scientific process has eliminated the 'ageing' gene.

Would you take this chance?

Would you wait a few years so you can age a bit more?

Or would you refuse it, for religious, or personal morals?
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[the grim reaper]

I'd take it, I dread old age and if it all gets too boring, I could take up cave diving and go that way

Cheers

Grim
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[AngelGrinder]

How ironic that the first reply is from the Grim Reaper

I'd definately take it, you no longer have to worry about running out of time to do something, or achieve anything. If it takes me 20 years to learn how to do something....so be it.
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[killa]

Im not sure i could go on with eternal living watching everyone i love and care for die some how.
If i was a complete loner then yes maybe.
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[wizzzard]

I would definitely refuse. I have no wish to live forever and certainly not to watch society decay and sink further into it's own filth as it is doing.

I also wouldn't like to have to personally make the decision to end it when I was tired of life which everyone would become at some point. Unless you could just book yourself in for a lethal injection I don't think I could end it any other way.
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[lostboy]

Its great though I do miss watching the sunrise...
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[Tonka]

[Kickstart]

Hi

Not sure.

Eternal life could be pretty nasty. Keeping physically able while you mentally turn into a baby would be dire. Seeing all the people you know die would also be pretty horrible.

However if everyone was in the same situation then the increasing population level would rapidly make life pretty unpleasant.

While you could make the decision to end it when it all becomes too much, I suspect for most people unless they had suffered deeply for a long time it would be difficult or impossible to actually go through with it.

All the best

Keith
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[Handsome]

Yeah I'd do it, I've lost close family and friends so I'm comfortable with the process, so yeah I'd do it for shits and giggles...
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[Devils Advocate]

no thanks.
Ive seen enough in the last 40 years so the sooner its over the better.Having to endure "life" for eternity would be a living nightmare!


if i had a pot load of money and didnt have to live in the rat race id think about it then....but without a load of money i wouldnt fancy it at all.

[zaknafien]

I'd do it without a doubt.

Although I wouldnt hang around here for much longer than I had too, off into the big black at the first opportunity.
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[pa_broon74]

Mmm...

All a bit Dorian Gray... I'd refuse it, fuck that for a laugh! I'd much rather relive the life I've got with some tweeks, ok, not tweeks, major upheavals.

I don't think you'd live your life properly if you knew it was never going to end, there'll be some philosophical thing attached to that... If you have no concept of death then you can have no concept of life etc etc etc...

I recently read Will Self's reworking of Dorian Gray, not even Stephen Fry shoehorns in as many big words as Self does. In it, the Dorian Gray Character is depicted as the carrier for the AIDS virus (its set in the eighties.) He's a bit of a bastard, completely sociopathic, he spends most of his time murdering and infecting poeple (male and female) with the virus.

My point is, if you could live forever, would you lose your ability to empathise, would you become a bit of an unfeeling monster or develop a god complex or something similar?


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[Hetzer]

No way. After reading countless NDE accounts I'm looking forward to snuffing it. In due course, I'm in no hurry now.
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[Handsome]

[Kickstart]

[pa_broon74]

[aaronb74]

I would do it. Yes, you'd lose loved ones, but would gain new ones (great great grandkids, new wife, etc).

I once lay in bed wondering what would happen when you got to about 80 and still looked 27 (or whatever age you are now). How would you make a living without having to explain to people you really are that old, etc. Also, how would you stay under the radar of the scientists looking to dissect you to find out your secret.
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[scorps]

I wouldn't want to. Id just be happy with a bit of a nip and a tuck. I imagine it would be dreadfully lonely after a while.
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[Clanger]

Nope. Not a chance.
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

Pass.

I imagine you'd get tired of living after a while anyway.

And you've have to work in order to sustain yourself.

A lifetime of work? No thanks.
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[Skudd]

Well as long as I last as long as 2012 just to see the world end as we all know it.
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[Flip]

If I could stay my current age, for the next 50 years say, then I would but I wouldn't want to live for ever.

[G]

Hell of a lot of things I'd like to do, try, experience, get better at in life, so a 'yes' for me.
Whether I'd say the same in a thousand years is another matter, but by then there'd probably be a lot more new things to try too .

If I had the time, I'd certainly take a decent few years or more to travel the world by bike, but for me now, I have to think what that 'loses' for me in the long term.