Thing is, that would not happen. Everything seeming to pass by faster is (mostly, it also has to do with stored knowledge and dozens other factors) because of your neurons usually regenerating much slower than the rest of your body - in fact so slow, that for years they were thought to never regenerate at all. If you had cellular immortality, this just would not happen.

I'd be more terrified by the thought that at one point, you might look to humans like http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Neanderthaler_Fund.png looks to us today.

Yep I thought of this some time ago and I would, as long as I'd live healthy. That's what we're all here for, to live as long as we can. Imagine what you could do in so many centuries... I'd have so much knowledge and I'd be so rich... A person with centuries of learning about some science would be one of the best scientists in the world :yes:

So when the sun blows up, and you are ashes scattered across the galaxy, somhow still alive...
Or I could just kidnap you and trap you in concrete.
In the OPs suggestion [censored] yes. See the universe, then when I get bored and develop to many memories and go insane I can just kill myself.


Humans dont evolve. Animals evolve for a bettter chance at survival, we just use technology, everyone survives the same nothing changes.

Absolutely! To quote George C. Scott, I have hobbies. There's only one thing worse than being alive and that's being dead.

Ever read the picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde? Being eternally youthful isn't a good thing. Dorian Gray experimented with every vice, he even committed murder. I would hate to become like Dorian Gray, I wouldn't choose eternal youth even though I would love it.

As long as I dont age, yes I would

Please do House a favour and read up on H.G. Wells.

This is something I have often thought long about. The only logical conclusion (as long as I was invulnerable) is why not? I mean, sure, it would svck when people you know die but since I am not the most social person in the world there'd be few people I'd actually miss. It would also svck when the Sun vaporizes the Earth in a few billion years, but hey, I've got a few billion years to find a way to another solar system. Not a problem.

Living forever... I could dedicate centuries or millennia of my time to the research of specific theories or technologies.

Also, since I couldn't die (sorry, won't have immortality without this fact - I don't want to die. Ever.) I would volunteer in the Army for a while, walk into enemy bases unscathed, take them out and walk back out unscathed.

Though, I do think I would need a way to off myself eventually. OK, I would give myself the ability to off myself. I'm my own Achilles's heel.

There is too much for me to see and to do than I could possibly accomplish in this life.

Of course, since this kind of immortality is impossible, I will just have to settle with doing as much as I can with this amount of time I have. I want to be able to look back on my life in 80 years from now and say that I had a full life.

By the very will of Nurgle, all things must come to an end! It is inevitable! You may not rot by the power of time, but a powerful infection and a sharp stick will end it.

I would say ya even though i'm not invincible. Though I would want to be immune to all known disease, could never get an infection, or lose body parts. Gonna svck if I get chopped up and all that's left of me is a head living forever.

Well after I read Tuck Everlasting and watched a couple of certain Twilight Zone episodes I'm not such a big fan of the the thought of living forever. :nope:

I wouldn't want to live forever. However, it would be neat to live about 50% longer than average and age according to that. In other words, look 30 at 50; 50 at 70 etc...

Actually, assuming we wouldn't lose teh ability to reproduce with our immortality, as long as you continued to have children on a regular basis you would constantly reintroduce genes that any particular human population might lose or not have. So in other words, you could slow down biological evolution by ensuring that nothing ever get's truly weeded out of a population's gene pool.

I just remember Elrond's super-depressing talk with Arwen about the subject from the LOTR movies (i forget which one), and no longer really feel like it would be cool.

The counterpoint to that would be Mr. House...

I could never die, I would do it and I would travel the universe.

Okay. That'll effectively happen in my own lifetime anyway: anyone older than me will probably die before I do, and I will have to deal with that loss anyway. Watching my kids die would svck, but hey, I could just not have them.

And then what, I'll die? I'm gonna do that either way if I'm not immortal...

Admittedly, that would svck, but I'm sure I could dig my way out with enough time on my hands. Can't make me more crazy than living forever!

Swim out?

Evolution is more or less cancelled out by technology, and social evolution, assuming I get to keep my moldable young brain, is not impossible for me.

Sure, but if I'm still happy I won't care, and if I'm not I can always just commit suicide.

By then I'm sure humanity will either be all dead anyway, or have developed means to survive despite the Earth's inviability.



Plus one, except I could deal with losing those close to me if I could live forever. Grief is more or less inevitable in any life, immortality just increases its prevalence.

However, someone who values human relationships above all else would probably have less of a chance of enjoying immortality, while I would love it, since I like to be more alone than the average person.

Plus, come on. Wouldn't you love to see what manner of mind-blowing entertainment they'l have in the future? how about video games that use artificial intelligence to allow you to do whatever you like a la matrix on crack?

Edit: oh oh, and music. Imagine music in a thousand years!

Definitely. But not just to live for ever and be cool, I'd do it for knowledge. Since I'm immortal, I might as well develop a way to go back in time to 1500, then record history from then on. So then there won't be any "We may never know for sure" type things.

No I would not, due to my spiritual views. I'm not gonna go into those, but to answer shortly I would not gain so much by living forever. Living for a long time yes, but forever - no way.

"You wake up one day and realize you're a homeless drunkard that is hated by the very essence of life itself, but hey! You can't die at least!"

If someone offered me eternal life right now? Hell yeah I'd take it. I know I'd probably regret it later, but I'm too curious about the future to pass something like that up. I'd have time to learn anything, do anything. I'd literally have all the time in the world provided I don't get killed.
Not being invincible is on one hand a plus, seeing as you can just off yourself if things get too horrible, allthough it would kind of svck if you got that kind of power then got hit by a bus five minutes later.

I think I would like to, just to see how things turn out.

I am.
Thats all I'm going to say about the matter.

Uhhh... what if your ship explodes in space and you spend eternity floating around while alive... unable to get down to a planet? That would svck.

Anyway, yes, I would live forever. I would get to live to see the advanced technology I can only currently dream of and I would just love more of life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcf7DnHi54g

No I would not like to live forever. A few RAISONS it would be sooo boring. Everyone I knew would die. People from my childhood I would get so angry. Id probably be a hermit or something with a dog. And a double barrel shotgun. Mmm shotgun.

Eventually you'd collide with something :shrug:. Hopefully not a star.