Who wants to live forever?

[Megan]

I need to live forever young.

[Sarah B]

If I take the blue pill then nothing momentous will occur, then in 50 years I will pass on and another 50 years after that no one will remember who I was.  Take the red pill, however, and I will see the universe as it really is. The decision is clear, comfortable, safe and predictable life or harsh reality? What would you choose and why?

My answer is simple I would take the red pill hands down with no hesitation whatsoever.  To go where no man has gone before.  Genetic engineering, medical technology or mind transference will take care of body needs.  Or as the Ancients did along time ago, move on to a higher plane of existence.

Live long and prosper
Sarah B

[lightvi]

I wouldn't want to live forever, maybe just stop aging and live for 500 years or so :)

[no_id]

I'm with the Highlander crowd on this one... 

Also yer; there's the aging factor... No aging + forever-ner...-ness... I'll take it,
b.u.t. forever + aging-er-ner-...ness.. I'll pass. 

So why would I take it? Because sometimes you just do things because you can, and deal with the consequences later.

[Pica Pica]

I just want

[rejennyrated]

I just want

Well I am called Jenny so... I grew one!

But the dematerialisation circuit still doesn't work properly, I dunno - something about power level instability caused by the time rift that our house sits over... and the Microsoft operating system for the chamelon circuit keeps causing BSOD general protection faults!

Ergo I'm currently stuck here

[Pica Pica]

simple, just reverse the polarity of the neutron flow and hit it a few times.

[rejennyrated]

simple, just reverse the polarity of the neutron flow and hit it a few times.

Done that. Now it's just saying operating system not found please reinstall! Oh and there is pink smoke coming from the timer rotor - is that normal? 

That's problem with fathers you see - they are never around when you need advice! 

[Metamorph]

Build a flux capacitor and time travel in style instead!

Id love to have a time machine. Being able to see all those major events in history would make up for how short life is. Id love to visit ancient Egypt and see other civilisations in their prime. Living forever has the disadvantage of having infinate amounts of time where you would be bored. I think about 200 would be a good age to have, without physical aging of course.

[tekla]

I'm sure forever would end up being a few days and nights too long.

[pebbles]

Hell yeah I'm gonna try and live forever ^_^ Of course I would probably fail because I refuse to let life get in the way of me living thus explode or fall off a skyscraper myself or something dumb.

I hear pepole say "forever would be boring." If you were born in 1000ad maybe you'd have a point but new technologies and things keep coming up all the time, look what we got in the past 40 years Bungee jumping, Skydiving, Epic roller-coasters, Helicopters.

They are all very cool things that you can do even cooler things with. In another 100-200 years we will have even more epic stuff, Transporter pads, Space ships, alien friends, time travel It will be an even bigger adventure. I don't think that even with infinity I could get bored of it.

Of course yeah there is a degree of quality of life I wouldn't want to live forever if I was completely decrepit and so senile I couldn't take care of myself.

[Hauser]

i wouldnt want to live forever.....without other immortals.  the idea of watching everyone and everything you know and love die....over and over and over and over and over again with no one who understood...would go a long way to screwing one's self up in the head

[Lachlann]

I do, with eternal youth of course.

Or heck, just let me live 900 years and age slowly.

[Iceprincess]

lol at some of the posts here, anyway, believe it or not there are some important and powerful people working on guiding the society into a future where things like that might be possible

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/business/13sing.html

It's just one of some articles around about this topic. And. TBH if I had thr chance of living for more time, maybe not forever but for 600 years as a young healthy and beautiful woman (25ish I guess lol) I'd definitely go for it without a doubt

And why do I have the feling that nanotechnology will improve the transition procedures in the future?

[V M]

But everyone does live forever... Just luckily not on this stupid planet 

[tekla]

What makes you think the next planet is going to be even better, it could just as well be Planet Falwell, or Planet Pat Robertson.

[accord03]

Yes. I'm afraid to die without my girlfriend. I wanna spend FOREVER with her.

[DaddySplicer]

Luckily, having no real sentimental attachment to absolutely anything or anyone, I'll gladly live for eternity and watch everything else melt away. I want to live long enough to see if life on Titan actually takes off, anyway.

And to the OP, if you had no chance of dying, you'd have nothing to stop you from drastically rearranging your body to suit your needs and desire.

[MRH]

Live forever? No thanks lol. I dont wanna see the future. The rate things are going we'll all live inside a computer. We will have no need for a body. We'll be like a head in a jar communicating through thoughts lol

One thing thats scares me is if there is an afterlife then we live for forever. If there is no after life there is nothing forever

[DaddySplicer]

Live forever? No thanks lol. I dont wanna see the future. The rate things are going we'll all live inside a computer. We will have no need for a body. We'll be like a head in a jar communicating through thoughts lol

One thing thats scares me is if there is an afterlife then we live for forever. If there is no after life there is nothing forever

I have a good feeling that the Technological Singularity, the event to which you're referring, is the next step in human evolution.

Also, there is no afterlife. But your atoms will go on in the universe for as long as time and space exist. That's something forever, not nothing.