What are your thoughts on immortality?

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These are mine
Our own morality is a direct reflection of our own mortality. Despite whatever religion or lack of religion that someone were to follow there is a common census that your actions on the earth determines not only your embodied moral bearing but any afterlife that may exist. All of the worlds joys, fears, heartbreak, aspirations and goals are a creation of lifes sands filtering through the hourglass. Without the knowledge of when our time will run out causes us to follow our own internal doctrine that not only guide us but gives us comfort in the fact we are doing the "right thing". The Reapers looming shadow at the end of each and every one of our lives created the social construct that is based upon our morality. If we were to to know that our sand would forever flow our actions as well as the implications of our actions would be drastically different.
What are yours?
 
That if you stay a good person, are nice to everyone, and make a few people lives just a little bit better, you will be immortal in some sense.
 
I personally wouldn't want immortality.

Greed would over rule society more than it is already. Let alone stupidity would rise. Although, what's said to be stupid when there are no negative physical actions to come out of it.

Humans take on legacies and traditions, if someone were to spend literally forever on something, who knows what wouldn't be discovered. There would be less mistakes in the world. Which can also lead to positive and negative outcomes.
 
Immortality...?

I think not sir yet it would be interesting for the first fewhundred years, but then as someone already said the world would be overun by greed & corruption. with that there would also be overpopulation and after a while there wouldnt be much to look forward too.
 
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I simply exist to exist.

If there's something after death, I'm stoked, cause then I just get to have more fun with my friends and others.

If not? Ah well, 'twas better to have lived and loved than to have never lived and loved at all.

But in my personal opinion, I think buddhism has it right with the whole reincarnation thing. Seems to make the most sense.

Plus, its dope to think that I've had multiple past and will have future lives.

 
What do I think?
I think that we live, we die, our self-perceivable existence is terminated. black. gone.
I believe that immortality, and the notion of a God/aterlife are human fabrications used for exploitation, or to derive explanation or comfort.
Our lives are insignificant in the grander scheme of things. Yours is one of perpetual trillions (not entirely human) of lives on this earth, and perhaps beyond? Life is not the product of divine intervention, but rather the chance result of ideal biochemical and situational factors coming together.
again, my belief. sorry if I have offended any "believers"
 
I think that when we die, we die. Disappear just as strange as we appeared into this world. It would be nice if it wasn't that way, but personally I like to embrace the fact that I only have one life, and need to enjoy it while it lasts.
 
being immortal would be awesome but also really depressing. you would see all your loved ones die and would have to move around alot to keep people from noticing that you havent aged in 1000 years
 
well, it could be real if we manipulated the little part of our cells that breaks down each time they divide which leads to aging

get it to stay constant instead of fading away and BOOM we're immortal

but really i think it would suck

there would be no motivation to do anything cuz you'd get around to it eventually

there would be nothing fresh and exciting

 
Death is still a possibility, just because you don't age doesn't mean you are immune to buses.

I think you are over estimating the drive that aging has in a persons every day life. I certainly don't motivate myself by thinking about death. Competition, need to impress people, want of a better life are all much more powerful motivators. Also if a person could live forever in a 25 year old body the world would be a much different (an in my opinion) better place. Age would be taken out of all equations and people would be equal. We would have to have a system of population control, limiting births, or moving out and expanding into the universe.

I hope in my lifetime it is possible to stop aging.
 
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