Would you want to live forever?

Natural life….I would hate to see all my friends/family die over and over and over again….

I’m just dying to rest…life is filled with too much work.

No, but I want to live to be very old. If everything turns out good for me.

Yes. If I knew that I would be happy. But, of course, that’s the hitch.

right now I can’t wait to be old so I can yell at young kids to get off my lawn.

I’d live forever. Hands down.

I am Catholic and I want to see God in Heaven. If I want to live forever because someone I love is still on earth and I am dying and I want to stay to be with that person, I would die knowing that I would see that person in Heaven.

Hell no. Im ready to go tomorrow if it happens.

i want to die naturally seeing that people i care be happy.

Come on you apes! Do you want to live forever?!
No, but I def wouldn’t mind being in the same health as I am now until I die a natural death. Or dying in a firey hail of glory.

Living forever is one thing; being trapped in life is quite another. There have been times in my life when I would have chosen one and times when I would have chosen another. I guess an underlying question is: “Are you afraid to die?”

No.

umm….yes. I’m sure the worst part of never aging and dieing would be seeing your family die and age without you. But I would just have to live on with newer generations of my family. I would always find new friends, and I would have infinite wisdom and the appearance of a 25 year old.

I could live to see humanity colonize other planets, finally own a flying car. The newest gaming consoles, the fastest computers available…the list is endless. I would have to say there is just so many good things about living forever that I don’t think I’d be sad all the time.

I have family that grows old and dies now, the only difference would be if I lived forever…I’d never have to go through it, and slowly my first set of best friends would all be gone. I could make more friends though.

It’d be perfect if I could choose a few people to live forever with.

Yes. I mean think about how much you could learn. In that time you could teach yourself every language and become an expert on anything you wanted.

Fovever? Hell no! Sometimes next week seems like too long. You don’t have to stick me with a fork to tell I’m done!!

No. I would not want to live forever. But if I had to, I would choose to do it as I am now. Young to mid twenties. And I’d drag my partner along for the ride. (He can’t wait. He’s counting down to the singularity. I, on the other hand, would really rather not.)

Hells yeah I wanna live forever. Just like that jerk, Dick Clark.

my luck, I’d get so bored after a couple hundred years that I’d commit some crime just for the hell of it…. and then be sentenced to life in prison.

@judochop even after a stroke like he had???

No way!

This question is too hard for me to answer. I’ve contemplated it many times, but I just can’t say “yes” or “no”. What I wish is that people’s lifespans lasted longer than they do and our bodies stayed youthful for a longer period of time. I would be extremely glad to live for a few hundred or even a few thousand years as long as my body was around the age it is now for most of it.

What I would prefer, above all else though, (with the body thing still in play) is to die whenever I was ready. To be able to live as long as I wanted, but to be able to say, “Okay. Enough is enough.”

If I live forever then I am immune to strokes.

There are an awful lot of liars on this thread.

Tricky question for me. First of all, I’m in pain all the time…so if my body stays the way it is now, it’s not such a good deal. Secondly, I’d love to be able to live forever, but not be forced to. If there is no way to opt out, I’m not opting in.

I’d definitely want to live forever. However, it is my understanding the our bodies get progressively less capable, and more painful as we age, and that, at a certain point, the pain makes continued life no longer worth it. I hope I never reach that point, but I can definitely feel it coming.

Great question! I’ve thought of this a bunch of times. You would think that since I fear death, immortality would be the answer but it’s not the case with me. I’ve been lucky in life to not have any family or friends pass away, and it makes me really lonely to think of any of them being gone. To be immortal would mean losing everyone you’ve ever cared about over and over again. I would never want to live that way!

My grandmother lived to be 98 and was sound in mind and body. She said that the curse of her life was outliving all of her friends and family (even 2 of her children). We probably have a shelf life for a good reason.

I’m with you AC, I think a lot of people on here are fibbers.