Living forever? how about xxx,xxx? Or xxx? Would you?

[Assassin X]

Ok, well I'll ask the questions and you tell me what you think.

We all know the one question, "Would you want to live forever". Suprisingly I notice more people say no then yes! Well I got a bunch! So answer each one and why! Unless your answer is the same for all.


This is past when you would presumably die and means you would age of this amount of time (not counting forever). Would you want to live:

1. Forever?
2. 1,000,000 years?
3. 500,000 years?
4. 100,000 years?
5. 10,000 years?
6. 5,000 years?
7. 1,000 years?
8. 500 years?
9. 100 years?
10. 50 years?
11. Die when I die!

My answer(s):
1 Forever: Well as great as this is I wouldn't simply because I am religous and believe in God and at some point have to die to go up to heaven. Not to mention it would be impossible to live forever since life won't last forever (in my religion).

2-10: I'd take any of these! Obviously a million years first choice though! I love life, even as crappy as mine is I still love love it! Yeah theres turmoil, wars, depression, but thats what makes life....well... life. Thats what gives you experience, thats what makes it life. I never want to die but have to at some point, a million would work out fine!

11. Die when I die: Never. I think we die to quick. By the time we get to the full experience in life we start experiencing major loss like parents dying and what not then by the time we are older we are clsoe to dying ourselves. It totaly sucks.

[Einstein700]

1,000 years would be great for me, there is so much to see, do and learn life is way to short.

[loganosborne]

1. Forever?
I think I would find life boring If I lived forever.

2. 1,000,000 years?
Again I think this is too long by 1,000,000 years I would have done everything I wanted to do in my life quite easily.

3. 500,000 years?
same reason as 2

4. 100,000 years?
Same reason as 2 and 3

5. 10,000 years?
6. 5,000 years?
7. 1,000 years?
5, 6 and 7 would do me perfectly for me as I think that would give me enough to achieve everyting I want to in life.

8. 500 years?
I wouldn't mind 500 years as that is a lot of time but I would perfer to at least have a thousand.

9. 100 years?
10. 50 years?
I find them too short but sadly in life there the ones were stuck with.

Never. I think we die to quick.
I agree.

[Cartesiantheater]

At most I'd probably only need 100,000, but I could probably get by with 10,000...

See, that would be plenty of time for me to get wealthy enough to finance a giant scientific/technological project to transfer the information in my brain into computer chips... after that, I'd (of course) design myself a new body, and then, any time something screws up, I could just replace it...

And of course, I'd have an emergency hard copy of my brain... hehe...

But in the end, I'd have to face entropy... so I'd build a supercomputer that could perhaps reverse it... hehe... like in The Last Question...


...I just need enough time to create my own near immortality...


:pcangry: :ghost: :chopper:

[Perfectionist]

Living forever would be sweet !!

But only if my body stayed as healthy as a 20 year old .....

Firstly I would spend a couple of hundred years studying every Degree, Masters and PhD course .....then another hundred years working to make enough money to live off the interest for the rest of my eternal life ..... which I would spend reading every book ever written, watching every movie ever made, playing every sport, learning every art etc etc etc ..... but most of all I'd fukk hot babes 10 times a day, every day !!

Only a loser would get bored of living forever !! :D :Bott: :jamn:

[Sammy56]

I seriously doubt I would enjoy living forever. However, I definitely wouldn't mind 1,000 to 5,000 years. After that, I think I would call it quits.

[evilwill]

I don't like the idea of living forever, it just doesn't seem right to me and I'd imagine one would eventually get tired of it.

I wouldn't mind maybe adding another 50 years onto the natural lifespan, but depends entirely upon the quality of life. If I'm going to live to 120 and the last 40 years are spent as a mental/physical cripple, then it really isn't worth it.

[dutchie]

Well, the whole argument is academic, isn't it? We're just going to live to around 80 years and then we'll die. Another 30 to go for me... :bubble: :yeah:

Live your life like any day could be the last. Make every day into a little feast and love the ones you're with. No life could be more complete. :wine:

[DontBeAfraid]

Well, the whole argument is academic, isn't it? We're just going to live to around 80 years and then we'll die. Another 30 to go for me...

Live your life like any day could be the last. Make every day into a little feast and love the ones you're with. No life could be more complete.

You should spend more time here dutchie.

[dutchie]

ah well, sometimes I get overwhelmed by a sense of nostalgia... :smokin:

Congrats with the bday again, DBA...

[DontBeAfraid]

Thanks. I didnt drink this year.

[Skynet12]

I couldnt have inverted my comment better than that of Dutchie's- hes 100% on this one. Take it as it comes!

[dutchie]

Thanks. I didnt drink this year.
Heh heh heh... Well, that must have saved ya both money and the risc to receive death threats...