Immortality Debate

Sounds like you are pro-immortality!

Be careful for what you wish for. There’s no guarantee immortality doesn’t result in eternal suffering.

why can't you live forever then?

To me fear of death is a sign of not really having been born yet. If you can't make 50 years worthwhile, you can't make 50000 years worthwhile, and if you can't cope with being limited to 80 years or so, you will not be able to cope with the heat death of the universe. It also stands to reason that if you feel it's impossible to give up 100 years of grown personality and memories, it will be even harder and more painful to give up orders of magnitude more of that. It seems li

There is no problem at all. Wanting to live forever is just your body's primitive instinct, and you should be intelligent enough to understand that people don't need you, or anyone, being around for longer than you will live already. Just look at the current old people - how they drag the whole progress, the whole society back. Now Imagine what would happen if everyone would be old - stagnation, that's what. Human brain is not evolved enough to keep being fresh for so long. After

omg, so by achieving immortality we would become a sort of cancer in the grand scheme of things?

What if, eventually, you realize it is no longer possible to be immortal?

You don't want to live forever. Because if you live forever, the probability of you eventually getting trapped somewhere forever is 1.

Why not just ask when will immortality be achieved?

I think the main hurdle that people seem to face when conceptualizing immortality is that they assume you would want to remain static throughout your eternity of existence. That's absurd considering no one stays exactly the same person as they live their current mortal life, why would immortality be different? No, immortal humans would continue to evolve along side their culture or would choose to splinter off from it to pursue their own developmental goals. An end to death is not an end to