Do you want to be immortal?

[Vindiesel]

Immortal (if my aging process stopped now at 36)....I feel I have enough emotional disconnect that I could build relationships, enjoy people for who they are and celebrate their deaths with no catatrophic trauma or long grieving. Plus I want to know what happens to this planet and all the chaos that will ensue.

 

[Dagan]

Immortal (if my aging process stopped now at 36)....I feel I have enough emotional disconnect that I could build relationships, enjoy people for who they are and celebrate their deaths with no catatrophic trauma or long grieving. Plus I want to know what happens to this planet and all the chaos that will ensue.

This is a very solid point. I can handle death better than anyone I know, really. I've discussed it in therapy, and yes, it's supposedly another indicator or aspect to being autistic. It's common she said. It's not a bad thing at all. I just process it rationally first or only, and most everyone else is emotional first or only and for possibly long periods of time. Anyway, this is a solid reason why so many or all of us could handle being immortal. For the same reason, I think I / we would be candidates for traveling to and living on Mars, if that ever happens.

 

[Ed#]

I'd like to be immortal in the spiritual sense, but not the physically embodied-here-on-Earth sense. The latter would surely get boring after a few hundred years. However, I very much like the idea of my soul living other lifetimes, including other lifeforms and on other planets. I'd be up for that.

 

[MildredHubble]

Quantum Immortality! If that theory is true, then we are all going to live forever. Sadly no one else will. That may seem nonsensical but it would be true.

If the Many Worlds interpretation of Quantum Physics is true then it would be possible that you could live forever. If you die, then there would be a version of you that didn't in an alternate universe.

So you can take that to it's logical conclusion and realise, a dead "you" has no consciousness, only an alive "you" would. So in every scenario there would be a "you" that survived whatever threat you faced. The "you" that survives is you!

 

[BrokenBoy]

If it's anything like Planescape Torment, maybe.

 

[The Pandector]

I was raised to believe that Christian faith was an intellectual failure. The only Christian in two generations of that family, I couldn’t understand why the obvious is so hard to accept. Those were frequently my thoughts in my youth, and I was judged badly for my faith.

When my mom’s husband grew close to death, the entire family had a mind boggling paradigm shift. Suddenly, he was going to be sitting on a hillside with their dead dog, waiting for Mom to join them. Within months, they developed a shared vision of an idyllic eternity together. His only message to me was, ‘I’ll see you later,’ great emphasis on ‘later.’

I don’t gamble, but I think this is what you call covering your bets. You’re so very certain, until you see your kids’ lunch money circling the drain, and you draw back and place a different sort of wager.

You’re welcome to think otherwise, but I don’t believe the afterlife is simply a projection of what we want it to be. This world certainly isn’t what I would want it to be; can’t imagine the next one is. Whatever it is, it is, regardless of what we think is fair or comforting.

This universe is so much more than we can comprehend. Hard for me to swallow that reality is just an affirmation of what we’re willing to believe. If there is life after death, we don’t get to imagine it into existence. It is what it is.

 

[Crossbreed]

“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” 1 Corinthians 2:9 NKJV

 

[Knower of nothing]

Immortality is a form of absurdism that exists only to soothe those that have yet to accept transience. Something that many people never really do. It's sad to let go, it really is. Tiny portions of our daily life are the small deaths and the larger losses are always landmarks. Losing home, losing identity, losing connection.

If you can accept the eventual nothingness that will befall the meaning of your being here. You only need to look over your shoulder to see death acceptance a single step away. If you can accept eventually having nothing and being nowhere through the dilution value, you can accept leaving today. You don't need to, but you can accept it.
It's always been fine, young or old, no matter how good or bad the life was. Death has never been bad. It was only fear speaking. Communication too, is nice because there's a period at the end.