Pros and cons of eternal life

[Flaming_Dingleberry]

Pros: You can go around having sex with random women forever.

Cons: Once you form a relationship that you actually care about, she'll die and you won't. You'll do something horribly irrational out of temporary or permanent insanity. If you go to jail for life... you better know how to break out of prison, or avoid getting butt-plugged.

[MrDespair]

Someone would capture you and could cause pain to you forever since you always stay alive no matter what happens.

If the government ever caught hold of it i bet they would be doing experiments on you constantly.

[5.points]

Pros: I can't think of any besides that you would never have to worry about aging and would learn more about the evolution of human life.

Cons: The sun will only last about 1 billion more years, although buy that time you could gather enough knowledge to find out a way to move to another planet.

[ffrplayer1232123]

i wound'nt want it live forever. you'd have to work forever.

[Ruritsu]

Pffft...

Pro: Infinite time to perfect, think about everything. Its freakin' immortality...

Cons: I'll devote this to disputing the other cons in this thread...

Watching your friends and family die: I'm pretty sure that you'd be able to deal with it, and move on, as everyone does when their parents, or friends die...

Jail for life: Nothing lasts forever... Except you >_> The building will eventually be destroyed, or you may get your chance to escape. Also, why are you planning on going to jail for life?

Growing bored: This is the only one I think has a chance of standing true, however, since our overall technological abilities as the human race doubles something like every ten years, I really doubt we'd grow bored. Further, its not like you'll run out of things to do. One could say that the things to do on this planet are finite, and will eventually be exhausted, but thats like saying the blades of grass on this planet are finite >_>

[MrGiggles]

You could get really really good at sm with that much time.

[korny]

Once you've made it near the 40th cosmological decade, there isn't a single one of you that would not regret taking up the chance to be immortal. You would all beg for a death you couldn't have. I'm thinking about the longterm, and longer portion of time lived that would be experienced through this journey of immortality.

[poochieCREAM]

overpopulating?
if like. 500,000 people started off,
they'd probably just keep reproducing
especially the chinese

[fo3h4mm3r]

Pro:I think you would enjoy it at first because you could pretty much do whatever you wanted. Be batman for reals. Whatever. You'd have time to study everything and also time to master almost every skill. But I think in the long run you would want to die unless you had another friend that was immortal.

Cons: There can only be one highlander!

[MrRubix]

I don't see how anyone could ever get bored with life. There are countless things to do, countless problems to solve, countless things to learn, countless places to go, countless people to meet and befriend...

The only problem I would see would be when, inevitably, all life on Earth would cease (sun can only run so long). Then I could see things getting a bit painful and boring. I'd have to somehow trick myself into going into some kind of mental experience coma or something.

[korny]

Well, one could only hope to be so lucky to be induced into a state like that or similar for the remainder of your eternity. Otherwise, the prior definitely does not outweigh the latter.

[TheGreatDecay]

I would guess humans will have successfully established themselves on another planet by then. But in the very long run, I would worry that humans would evolve so everyone was smarter/better than you in some way. That would make it difficult to find friends.

[korny]

Even if we migrated to another galaxy still able to sustain life, by the 40th cosmological decade there won't be anything left but black holes, which even then will expire eventually.

[TheGreatDecay]

Oh, yeah, that would be pretty miserable.

[darkshark]

To me this is a one-answer question.
The pro's tip the scale as opposed to con's. Your understanding of everything would be far beyond anything fathomable. You would have the potential to be the BEST at literally everything.

To all the people who say that you would get bored......look at what you do on FFR....you sit there for half the day tapping 4 keys for years on end. You wouldn't get bored.

Living forever as opposed to a tiny speck in time....hmmmmm....

[ledwix]

Originally Posted by MrRubix

I don't see how anyone could ever get bored with life. There are countless things to do, countless problems to solve, countless things to learn, countless places to go, countless people to meet and befriend...

True dat. Knowledge, fields of knowledge, and things to do expand much, much faster than our own personal happenings do. To say that you would eventually learn EVERYTHING out of the nature of infinite life gets knocked down by virtue of L'Hopital's Rule.

[WTFBrandon]

2012 is wiping out everything anyways, so who cares.

[MrGiggles]

Originally Posted by darkshark

To me this is a one-answer question.
The pro's tip the scale as opposed to con's. Your understanding of everything would be far beyond anything fathomable. You would have the potential to be the BEST at literally everything.

To all the people who say that you would get bored......look at what you do on FFR....you sit there for half the day tapping 4 keys for years on end. You wouldn't get bored.

Living forever as opposed to a tiny speck in time....hmmmmm....

Until you get sucked into a black hole and spend the rest of eternity as a literal tiny speck.

Eternity is a lot longer than "years on end". In fact, it's infinitely longer. I'm with korny on this one.

pps A more likable scenario would be one in which I never age, but could be killed through other means. Drug overdose, bein shot in da ghetto, terminal carpal tunnel syndrome from playing sm, cancer, AIDS, etc.

[esupin]

Originally Posted by MrGiggles

pps A more likable scenario would be one in which I never age, but could be killed through other means. Drug overdose, bein shot in da ghetto, terminal carpal tunnel syndrome from playing sm, cancer, AIDS, etc.

Exactly. Remember, you're still vulnerable to everything else, just not natural aging. Disease, etc can still kill you.

I actually think that this would make a person extremely paranoid - they'd start to become overly cautious about driving, flying, germs, etc, because wouldn't it suck even more to die when you can't age?

[MrRubix]

Originally Posted by WTFBrandon

2012 is wiping out everything anyways, so who cares.

LOL this made me laugh

Perhaps John Cusack will luck out