Would you want to live forever?

PugofCrydee

PugofCrydee

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I was watching 'An interview with a Vampire' the other night and another post on SPW was about birthdays, getting older etc. It got me thinking,

If you could live forever, would you?

One of my favorite books 'Magician' by Raymond Feist is basically about a boy who makes a deal with the gods to escape death so he can help save his world. But he is told to do so will mean seeing every person he has ever loved and will love, will die before him. This included his wive's and children, friends etc.

It got me thinking about how painful that would be to experience, and live with.
I've always loved movie's about Vampires and throughout the years had always fantasized if I was ever given the chance to become a Vampire, I would take it in a heart beat.
Living forever...so cool... or is it?
 
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AGR

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Living forever....?Forever....???forev....?Forever alone?

No thanks,but it would be interesting to live 500/1000 years .
 
MikeyC

MikeyC

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Living forever would not be cool, however the snapshot of the world we get now doesn't feel long enough.

To never die would be torture, knowing you are going to continue going on and on when everyone you run into is going to die. However, to live roughly 85 years - where up to 20 of those years at the end can be spent as an invalid - doesn't seem like enough. If there were 15 extra years of "youth" you could tap into, that would be great.
 
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Earthcircle

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PugofCrydee said:
I was watching 'An interview with a Vampire' the other night and another post on SPW was about birthdays, getting older etc. It got me thinking,

If you could live forever, would you?

One of my favorite books 'Magician' by Raymond Feist is basically about a boy who makes a deal with the gods to escape death so he can help save his world. But he is told to do so will mean seeing every person he has ever loved and will love, will die before him. This included his wive's and children, friends etc.

It got me thinking about how painful that would be to experience, and live with.
I've always loved movie's about Vampires and throughout the years had always fantasized if I was ever given the chance to become a Vampire, I would take it in a heart beat.
Living forever...so cool... or is it?
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I love Interview with the Vampire, both the book and the movie. Anyway, the answer to your question is yes. I would want to live forever, because it would indefinitely increase my potential for learning.
 
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Lavinialuna

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I am 42 and already suffering daily with chronic pain. The idea of this (pain) going on forever just seems cruel.
On the mental front, after watching my sister bury my 7 year old nephew and watching her deteriorate over the past 20 years- no. It's too painful. Watching everyone around you die would be too traumatizing for me because I am so sensitive. It would in essence be hell on earth for me.
So no, I'll say no. Not here, not this way. I do believe there is life after death and while I don't know what the details on that are or what it will be like I'll take my chances.:)
 
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jc972

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Living forever: outlive everyone I care about, they die, I watch them be buried and then live alone. Then meet some other gal and have a family with her and relax into a kinda new life and they all get old and die off, 2nd wife, 2nd set of kids from new-wife and then meet another sweet girl to start over with... Every couple generations have to start over with it all? :kickingmyself: That would be awful close to a living Hell, I reckon. On the good side, I'd outlive everyone I hate and I'd have beaucoup seniority over everyone else down at the factory and vacation time a comin' out the demon hole! If I worked there 100 years, at this rate, I'd be making over $300 an hour and have YEARS of vacation time accrued. I could take my brand new 20 year old bride to Hawaii for years at a time and get my hundred-and-somethin' year old bod on a surfboard. Sounds like Hell to me. Naw, I couldn't do it. Pfft! a hundred years from now they probably won't be no machinists left out there anyway. I'd have to take up an honest profession like being a politician or somethin'. And the more I think about it it'd be kinda neat to get a different girl every lifetime but it'd suck eating her cooking till she gets good at it, seems to me like it takes a woman about 4 or 5 years after ye marry em afore they learn to cook like a champ,
 
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DepravedFurball

DepravedFurball

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I toy with this question on occasion, attacking it from various angles and seeing where it takes me...

Problem is, I always arrive at the same end. Somewhere in the distant, distant future, I would be alone, drifting in the darkness of space after our sun has gone super-nova. Crazed. Frozen. Forever solitary. Perhaps until the very end of time itself.

That is certainly not a decent prospect, lemme tell you. Sure, it'd be all fun and games for the first five hundred years or so, but after that? Pffff. At some point the soul needs to rest.
 
LoyalXenite

LoyalXenite

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DepravedFurball said:
Problem is, I always arrive at the same end. Somewhere in the distant, distant future, I would be alone, drifting in the darkness of space after our sun has gone super-nova. Crazed. Frozen. Forever solitary. Perhaps until the very end of time itself.
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I too come to a similar conclusion, but not only frozen in space but stuck in an eternal suffocation.


If I could be guaranteed to change planets or something to avoid that fate, and I was able to be a vampire I'd be really open to it.
 
MotherWolff

MotherWolff

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PugofCrydee said:
I was watching 'An interview with a Vampire' the other night and another post on SPW was about birthdays, getting older etc. It got me thinking,

If you could live forever, would you?

One of my favorite books 'Magician' by Raymond Feist is basically about a boy who makes a deal with the gods to escape death so he can help save his world. But he is told to do so will mean seeing every person he has ever loved and will love, will die before him. This included his wive's and children, friends etc.

It got me thinking about how painful that would be to experience, and live with.
I've always loved movie's about Vampires and throughout the years had always fantasized if I was ever given the chance to become a Vampire, I would take it in a heart beat.
Living forever...so cool... or is it?
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Living forever is only possible through being saved in Jesus Christ. All those other ways if possible, such as through becoming a vampire or through artificial intelligence, are evil and not ideal.

I want to have eternal life through the One and only Savior, Jesus Christ. I know that I will get that because I am saved. Anyone can be saved. So yes I do want to live forever as long as it is through God in His Son Jesus Christ.

Yes, I think it would be very sad if the people I loved did not make it to Heaven with me. But that is why Jesus said He will wipe away every tear in Heaven.
 
jimmy75

jimmy75

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I think deep down we'd all want to live forever. None of us want to die, after all. At least, not now.
 
Opaline

Opaline

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I think I would like to be a vampire. In Stephen King's Salem's Lot he tried to make vampires more scary and horrifying instead of romantic/sexy, etc., but I really couldn't understand how the characters in the book didn't WANT to become vampires. Superhuman strength, near-immortality, good looks (unless you find fangs and pale skin unattractive!)... what's so bad about that? Drinking blood isn't an issue because you want to, so... yeah. Don't see the problem.
 
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