If you could choose to be immortal, would you?

i would want to die eventually.

but think of all the places you could see and all the people you could meet.

you need to specify more, what are the terms of this immortality?
 
Tithonus comes to mind.

In Greek mythology goddess Eos kidnapped the mortal Trojans Tithonus and Ganymede to be her lovers. Eos asked Zeus to grant Tithonus eternal life, however she forgot to ask for eternal youth. As a result Tithonus grew old and weak. Eos laid the aged Tithonus in a room when he no longer had the strength to move.

No, I don't want to be immortal. I'm basing this decision on Greek mythology, probably not the best way to make decision but I really don't think it matters.
 
13189553:broto said:
i would want to die eventually.

but think of all the places you could see and all the people you could meet.

you need to specify more, what are the terms of this immortality?
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no one reads terms and conditions anyway...however, lets look at the traits of the immortal jellyfish

it basically reverts back to sexual immaturity at a certain point, then goes through puberty again. so here are the TnC: you may choose a loop (period of age) to revisit forever. you will still carry physical and mental illnesses, similar to the jellyfish, but you will never die from them.
 
13189570:*DUMBCAN* said:
Tithonus comes to mind.

In Greek mythology goddess Eos kidnapped the mortal Trojans Tithonus and Ganymede to be her lovers. Eos asked Zeus to grant Tithonus eternal life, however she forgot to ask for eternal youth. As a result Tithonus grew old and weak. Eos laid the aged Tithonus in a room when he no longer had the strength to move.

No, I don't want to be immortal. I'm basing this decision on Greek mythology, probably not the best way to make decision but I really don't think it matters.
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Nerd.
 
13189834:250r said:
Immortal as in being able to hit the biggest lines without a hint of fear? Fuck yea I'm down
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Im not too sure that you have the correct definition of immortal
 
Fuck no. Get hit by a car and be crippled literally into eternity.

I want it to be done at some point, I want to look back on things and go holy shit. I actually did something. I don't think life really has a point if it's eternal.
 
13189570:*DUMBCAN* said:
Tithonus comes to mind.

In Greek mythology goddess Eos kidnapped the mortal Trojans Tithonus and Ganymede to be her lovers. Eos asked Zeus to grant Tithonus eternal life, however she forgot to ask for eternal youth. As a result Tithonus grew old and weak. Eos laid the aged Tithonus in a room when he no longer had the strength to move.

No, I don't want to be immortal. I'm basing this decision on Greek mythology, probably not the best way to make decision but I really don't think it matters.
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thanks for the Myth and Symbol legend ass-hat.

I feel like if you lived long enough the day to day luck or anything like that would just fade away with the time-span of an eternity. Forever? no not really, if I can hold onto my early 20's and keep fucking around though than yeah that could be cool
 
If it was like a wolverine style of immortality then yes. Anything outside of that is a maybe, it would definitely depend on certain conditions.
 
I don't want to be old and wrinkly as it is, so if I had to be the oldest and wrinkliest person ever, hell no. But eternal youth would be pretty fucking great.
 
Would you still be alive after the sun blows up or whatever? That would be really really painful probably.

Sounds like dick and balls to me, no thanks.
 
13189570:*DUMBCAN* said:
Tithonus comes to mind.

In Greek mythology goddess Eos kidnapped the mortal Trojans Tithonus and Ganymede to be her lovers. Eos asked Zeus to grant Tithonus eternal life, however she forgot to ask for eternal youth. As a result Tithonus grew old and weak. Eos laid the aged Tithonus in a room when he no longer had the strength to move.

No, I don't want to be immortal. I'm basing this decision on Greek mythology, probably not the best way to make decision but I really don't think it matters.
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My nigga
 
i mean in theory, if i were immortal i could go anywhere, do anything. right? i could leave on a space ship and go explore some other galaxy potentially.

but no i wouldn't want to. being as positive as i am, i still dont want to experience a never ending life.
 
If by "immortality" you mean "everyone I love slowly dies before my very eyes and compounds my depression and self-loathing further and further upon itself until I am incapable of doing anything but wandering around and drinking in a woefully inadequate way to numb the pain"

then no.
 
13191269:life_is_hood said:
If by "immortality" you mean "everyone I love slowly dies before my very eyes and compounds my depression and self-loathing further and further upon itself until I am incapable of doing anything but wandering around and drinking in a woefully inadequate way to numb the pain"

then no.
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you sir sound like a real winner.
 
If I could keep my youth as well and also have the option to opt out at anytime, then yes.

It would be nice if your significant other would be forever youthful with you. It would definitly help with any loneliness.
 
I think probably yes. I see the long term downside but I probably still wouldn't pass it up because I can't rationally comprehend that sort of thing and death sounds kind of shitty.
 
13191344:J.D. said:
I think probably yes. I see the long term downside but I probably still wouldn't pass it up because I can't rationally comprehend that sort of thing and death sounds kind of shitty.
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my opinion pretty much exactly. fuck dieing man.
 
Imagine floating around space after the sun explodes. Then you land on some rock. An unimaginable amount of time passes by. Then the rock is like a planet. More time passes. It forms an atmosphere. One day you spit or something, and the cells in your spit multiply. Eventually life grows and spreads around the world. Humans come along millions of years later. That would be some heavy shit, but death is a gift.
 
13193824:TRVP_LVRD said:
Imagine floating around space after the sun explodes. Then you land on some rock. An unimaginable amount of time passes by. Then the rock is like a planet. More time passes. It forms an atmosphere. One day you spit or something, and the cells in your spit multiply. Eventually life grows and spreads around the world. Humans come along millions of years later. That would be some heavy shit, but death is a gift.
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People would survive. We'd already be long gone to other planets/universes/living without a planet.
 
Nope, too many people that I love would die and I feel like we're at a point right now where things are gonna get a lot worse before they get better. Plus, who wants to be alive in 10 billion years when the Earth is a charred rock?
 
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