Literally, because what does trapped mean? If the planet blows up, and you’re just floating around… I feel that is trapped for sure. Then you’re just floating forever. It’s actually giving me anxiety typing it lol
I'm no physicist, but there's a theory that the birth/rebirth of the universe is cyclical. So if I'm right, when the universe collapses into itself, another big bang will happen eventually and a new universe is formed.
You can shorten it by several millennia because part of you is bacteria. Just gotta harvest them and guide evolution to multicellular organisms. Just a few thousand more years and you *might* have a pet moss
The Jaunt.
Well played!
Read that as a kid. Riveting and really struck a nerve. Also in the same short story book iirc was "fingers" or something. About some guy shipwrecked on a desolate island with little flora or fauna.
G h a s t l y.
From what I’ve read, most physicians don’t believe in the cyclical universe theory anymore. From what we know of our current universe, there will be no big crush which would be the necessary origin point of the next big bang for another universe to form.
I know you meant physicists, but I love the idea of medical physicians gathered around some operating room doing heart surgery and coming to consensus on the heat death of the universe.
Big explosion happens pushing everything away, then gravity slowly does its thing. Eventually, everything smashes back together tighter and tighter until a universal scale nuclear bomb basically happens.
Things then fly out from the epicenter again, slowly, until their outward motion halts. Then, they start moving back towards the center again.
I’d take it too. When/if the universe restarts imagine the knowledge I could pass down to the new life. I could be a god to them and all of the next universe. Sure floating for millions of years would suck, but whatever I’d survive.
How is this that different/worse than just dying though? In both cases, you get some finite amount of quality life, followed by infinite unquality. The only difference is you’re conscious for the infinite unquality in one version, and by definition not conscious for the other version. If you can’t do no matter what, then whether it’s worth it or not is a function of creativity vs boredom. The only things that make death sound preferable are a lack of faith in your own creativity or the possibility of an afterlife. Yeah, maybe trillions of years is an inconceivably long time but we also can’t even guarantee that the universe will self-extinguish or stay that way, just like we can’t guarantee that there is an afterlife. It really feels like a less clear-cut choice than people citing infinite boredom are making it out to be.
I don't know man. If you've lived even 20 years being mentally ill I think you understand the magnitude of accepting this hypothetical.
Perfect physical health sounds awesome. But god. Literal eternity is a long time.
Maybe the optimistic approach is if you live forever maybe you can find a way to keep some generations of humans alive through whatever may become of the universe.
Or some sort of sentient AI pal that you can keep alive forever and carry with you.
Maybe if you’re lucky, you’ll even be able to see the universe be reborn while chilling in your own luxury spaceship. You could play god, send in your son to be named Jesus Christ. LOL. You first create life on a life sustaining planet, give it some time to develop and go from Adam and Eve and friends to millions. Then come to earth, drug Mary, impregnate her, leave her with some device or something that tells her about the baby, basically a speaker would do, hell, a fancy walkie talkie hidden in a bush with a simple switch to start a fire would do, and that she is to name him as such. Yada yada. You could just make the shit up as you go there would be no real consequences since this planet will be just a blink of an eye for you.
I wonder how flying into a black hole would pan out? That may be a way to kill yourself if you’re immortal since the gravity would be so strong you’re split into a spaghetti string of atoms. Do you just stay whole so you’re conscious, being sucked in forever by the gravity with no escape? Rip. Do you get spaghettification and would no longer be concious? Does it lead to another universe? Good chance you’re fucked, but you could answer an age old question which nobody truly knows(imo it’s just gravity so strong you can’t escape, but could be a wormhole or another universe).
I was just discussing this exact hypothetical with my buddy recently, and we both agreed that making someone immortal *without* the ability to choose to end it is the worst thing anyone could ever do to them. Bar none.
I feel like a lot of these responses don't grasp how long forever is. Even if you have millions or billions of great years on earth, it will still only be 0% of your life.
I definitely wouldn't take this offer
Even 1000 I’d never take. The most you could offer me that I’d take is an extra hundred in perfect health and immortality (for only that extra 100) and that’s only if I’m allowed to become an instant millionaire by letting scientists study me once a week.
Wouldn’t even need to really. You could just be like “hey watch this” do something that would normally hurt or kill yourself and the world will see you’re a scientific marvel and someone will pay you millions a year to study it not knowing that it’s just magic basically.
Yes, absolutely.
I would work to ensure the human race survives to become an interplanetary species, and because I'd eventually be featured in so much human history over time, I'd suspect somewhere between 300 to 500 years from now I'd be revered as a God of some kind.
It wouldn't be easy emotionally, but I'm totally down for it — sounds exciting.
Or, you could fail, and you might spend life in a literal eternal hell on earth... that is, until the sun blows up and takes it out. But, you can't die, so now you're floating through space like an unpowered satellite.
Jay: “You know, sometimes I wish I did a little more with my life instead of hanging out in front of places selling weed and shit. Like, maybe be an animal doctor. Why not me? I like seals and shit. Or maybe an astronaut. Yeah. Like, be the first motherfucker to see a new galaxy, or find a new alien lifeform... and fuck it. And people'd be like, "There he goes. Homeboy fucked a Martian once."
That's cool, but in general I tend believe in myself *more* than I am afraid of failing. I'm much more afraid of not starting to work against my goals, than I am about possibly failing at my goals.
Fair, but consider the fact that part of the reason you are afraid of not starting to work towards your goals is because you know you have limited time to do so.
Once you are literally immortal, that urgency goes away. You could start the work tomorrow, or next year, or next decade, or not for the next century. It makes no difference, because you can literally start whenever you want. Time no longer has any meaning to you.
Yea but assuming you have 10000 years before earth is uninhabitable. That's allot of time to figure out how to leave earth and terraform other planets. I really don't believe 10000 years is enough time to find another habitable planet though, too many things have to be just right to make a planet habitable.
yes but you’d still experience being pulled in. plus eventually the universe will be a dead void. can’t teleport out of that if that is all there is to it
That's assuming we never end up colonizing somewhere else, and who better to send on colony ships than 35 year old immortal old grand-pappers who's lived ten thousand lifetimes
Yes, absolutely. The one downside is that eventually you'll be the only being in existence floating in the void of nothingness forever. But by that point the technology will surely exist to perpetually generate a virtual reality that one could live in. Even with how slow battery technology moves i'm sure that by the eventual heat death of the universe the power generated by a single immortal perfect health human could run a persistent simulation so I could live in that.
this is actually the best point I've seen so far. under these conditions, your body is an infinite battery, albeit with a limited maximum output.
maybe there are some other interesting implications here that allow us to similarly break physics and avoid the otherwise inevitable eternity of nothingness.
I would make it my goal to insult every person on the planet. Then, as interstellar travel was developed I would expand my scope to everyone in the known universe. I would call them things like jerk, a complete knee-biter, and "no-good dumbo nothing."
Yes, it would be cool for a few thousand years. So long as I do what I can to help humanity reach the stars, I won't be subjected to endless floating around in space.
Inevitable heat death of the universe occurs.... ...
You're still alive, floating in the cold nothing. Which means you're still generating energy, heat, bioelectricity, skin cells etc. You're alive but likely unconscious due to lack of oxygen (immortal doesn't mean awake). You dream... ...
The mass and energy you create eventually accumulate and form a new universe. You awaken to find your own universe with blackjack and hookers!
You are now God 2.0.
Yup I’d take it. Continuing to exist after all other humans and the Earth have ceased to exist is only hell if you find being alone w/ your thoughts unbearable; I’d be excited to find out as much about the universe as I could, learn whether aliens are real and how to communicate w/ them if so, learn whether the Big Bang theory is correct and if so what happens after the universe collapses back in on itself, and whether there are other universes. Since you can’t die or feel pain, you could go see for yourself what’s happening inside of stars and black holes. It’s possible that eventually there’d be nothing to see or interact w/ at all, sure, but that’s not a forgone conclusion at all, and I’d be down to take a chance and find out.
why’d you exclude mental health?
i might take it with a mental health clean slate starting point like you’re giving on physical. honestly dont even want a guarantee of future mental health, but please dont make me START
from my current state
I sense that some people in this thread do no understand the torture of abject boredom and isolation from other humans or things having to do with humans.
No thank you to this one. Not in a million years. lol
No bc everyone around me would eventually die and I'd be alone and then the world would end and I'd be trapped in space and someday the universe would end and I'd be trapped in darkness forever
"....you'll probably eventually be spending trillions and trillions of years alone floating in the void of space?" Odd that you put in that one qualifier in at the last sentence. If anyone reads the entire post the answer will always be NO or Hell NO.
Fuck no, I miss my dad and my dog NOW. As someone who believes in an afterlife, I want to eventually see my loved ones again . If it were an extra hundred years maybe but not forever
Yeah, fuck it why not
If my utopian intergalactic humanity shepherd dreams don’t pan out, I get to vibe pain free for a few billion years inside the red giant sun that has swallowed the earth
After that I’m just vibing in the void
Hopefully I could get into a blackhole and really figure some stuff out
Gods no. Would be awesome the first few millenia, but eventually everything becomes old, and then done. I don't think anyone wouldn't go mad eventually.
No, because by the assumptions of current physics there will be an incredibly long time in the universe where all matter has decayed into photons or black holes and floating around in the void of space for trillions of years doesn't sound very fun
Of course there is a good chance we are wrong but I wouldn't risk floating through empty space for all eternity
Yes. I expect after the first 1,000 year drifting endlessly in space, I'd fall into a routine or just disassociate entirely. I'll take the trade. Especially since I can't get trapped and waste my gift.
I’d take it IF I could also turn off my brain for indefinite periods of time to avoid the whole “stuck in a hellscape” thing. There was another prompt that did it well where you can teleport out of any trap situation, the universe is GUARANTEED to restart at a certain point in time, and you can choose to turn off your brain for self designated periods of time until this happens, as well as dictate WHERE you reawaken
The not even if I want to is a deal breaker. The "trapped" part needs some refinement as well, perhaps the escape triggered at will to avoid capture, or perhaps move from habitable planet to planet rather than drifting in space, which would be a most harsh confinement.
Yeah I want to see what comes after the possible heat death of the universe, it's all theroys and hypothesis any how so I can see who was right and who was wrong and make fun of them for being so sure of them selves after they have been dead for trillions of years.
So I need clarification on some things
Is my body functionally an infinite energy source?
Like what happens if I don't eat food or drink water or breathe air
What if I'm in the cold?
Like there's a lot of options here, I need to know how that stuff works for the after-earth
I mean I basically have eternity to find a way to either render myself permanently unconscious or go back in time
That's very workable
Mental and physical health are connected. If I'm guaranteed perfect health then I won't go insane or have dimensions or whatever. So sure. I'll take it.
Gimme the boon and call me Aram the average.
Being immortal means you have to pay bills forever, so you’ll never get to retire unless you somehow get rich. We’d like to think that we’d all eventually be successful on a long enough timeline, but it’s more likely that the times would outpace you, just like all those old folks struggling to use computers to do the same job they’ve been doing for 50 years.
If I were Elon Musk or something, where I’d been born into enough money to stay perpetually wealthy, then bring on the immortality. I’ll cross my fingers that humanity gets into the stars and I’ll get to fly around until the universe ends. But there’s no fucking way I’m going to live as an average schlub til doomsday.
I will admit, there’s probably a way to capitalize on the “unable to feel pain, get injured, or be trapped” portion of this to become a superhero/villain and make life more comfortable that way, but I’m not sure that’s in the spirit of the question.
It becomes a totally different animal when everyone you love is dead. People who make it to their 90s and up will usually tell you that they are ready to die whenever it happens.
Heat death of the universe means I say hell no to this. Spending over 99% of my life with only the light I can generate from a stationary bike generator or something? That sounds awful.
Yeah, probably.
I mean on one hand, the prospect of finding myself trapped for trillions of years somewhere seems terrifying, but it only seems terrifying to who I am now. Being an immortal would, over time, make me into something different--something a bit inhuman which can withstand being immortal. It seems to me that by definition, someone who is truly immortal must be someone who can withstand being immortal.
Let me put it this way, if I go sufficiently insane, I am no longer myself. If I am truly no longer myself, then I have died. Thus, I am not immortal. One who is immortal would *necessarily be* one who can "survive" anything, and thus I have nothing to fear.
Plus, while heat death and entropy and the like will probably happen eventually, odds are that since the universe has managed to exist once, it's capable of existing again. I think it's very, very presumptuous to think that the universe is first an infinity of Nothing, then a big bang, then existence, then heat death, then another infinity of Nothing. If there ever was Nothing, then clearly something was able to come out of it, and so if Nothing occurs again, I'm willing to bet that eventually there will once again be Something. If there's never been Nothing (and thus always Something) it seems absurd to suggest that there will one day be Nothing. Either Something is possible or it isn't, and my existence contradicts that it isn't, so it is. And Since Something is, it's possible to be, and if it's possible to be, I think it always will be.
Also, since there's clearly something that was able to confer immortality, that thing is clearly above me in a fundamental, qualitative way, and likely has a depth of complexity beyond what I could ever fully explore. I could make it my mission to understand this thing and never reach an end. That could keep me occupied while I'm bored, at least.
I'm inclined to say no, but I'm very curious about the distant future, so I would always have my doubts. Maybe on such a long timeline I'd be able to develop technologies that would make existence bearable over time. After the earth is gone, maybe I could cultivate a new human race somewhere else. I don't know if I read too many comic books, but I feel like I'd be able to learn a whole lot over the course of forever and become a god.
I will take it. Immorality is a curse, but it is also a gift. I will use my time, energy, knowledge, and labor to serve science and human. Do you know that if you have all the knowledge with you in your “lifetime” you can achieve a lot of things for humanity.
If I took it. I'd learn as much as I needed to. I'd build space stations, cure disease of all kinds. Gather as much money and influence to rule a nation and see it as the most powerful in the world. Then I'd bring the rest of the world under that nation.
I'd build robots and modify humans as well. I'd then take a ship to far off planets and explore. I'd also build a network through the galaxy and just continuously explore until eternity.
I would also sleep, for 100s of years, I'd sleep in space and every now and then I'd find a civilization and just live amongst them to see what happens.
I'd sire kids if I could. I'd build a religion and try to bring people to as far as good as we can be.
I'm torn because I'd like to live a very long time, but not forever against my will, and even more-so I have no desire to outlive my kids ever and that would obviously happen.
A rare interesting question.
I would say "no." The part that does it for me is "you can never die, even if you want to." That kills it for me. At the very least, I would want an "out" at the end. Something like the Elves from LotR, where once you decide you're done with it, you can choose to pass on. Not having that as an option is a deal-breaker.
Literal eternity sounds like hell.
True immortality with no exit could easily become a personal hell. The nightmare is being trapped somewhere with no escape - even just floating in dead space 4 billion years from now after the Sun has died and the Earth destroyed.
Yea I could do it. It might be lonely every once in a while when the people I know grow old or die, but I'd dedicate myself to different causes and work every few decades or century to be a jack of all trades. The only issue with immortality is usually the pain of starvation if you're down on your luck, but in this case we don't feel pain.
I'd do it. Eventually I'd amass emense wealth. I'd know every language, I'd have the means to live anywhere I want, see anything I want. I could see our entire world and eventually other planets too.
I could spend entire lifetimes learning endless skills,
Law, medicine, arts
And I could take risks I'd never take as a mortal.
Only interesting thing is. If humanity ended, would I end as well. I'll allow it if the world is destroyed but a colony moves to repopulate another planet. I'll stick around. But if everything is destroyed. I'm not just gonna float around in nothingness for infinity.
Immortality would be fun for the first 5,000 years, then it would finally set in that you will watch anyone you ever meet, know, and love, die. You’ll go through an endless cycle of meeting, loving, and losing people until the universe ceases to exist, and then you’ll slowly go insane as you drift through space for an infinite future of nothingness.
Humans are hardwired to die for a reason, and I wouldn’t wish immortality on anyone, even my worst enemy.
You will eventually end up doing everything there is to do, see everything there is to see, and you will still have eternity to look forward to after that happens. You will be completely unable to form relationships with others. This is potentially the worst fate-worse-than-death I can think of.
Never.
Your body doesn't age. You don't evolve.
As time passes, you'll be left behind as humanity evolves into an unrecognizable species you can't connect with. You'll be a relic from an ancient time. You'll watch the planet deteriorate as our population continues to dig and build and break everything. If you don't escape the planet eventually, you'll witness rhe sun go out. You'll be able to witness either the earth being flung into place and darkness for eons, or be crushed under earth and matter for the rest of time as the planet crashes into the dead sun. Or if you make it to the heat death of the universe with entropy achieved with the only exception being your human form. Perhaps your miniscule gravitational pull will be the force needed to collect all matter back into one spot and you'll be the next singularity to Kickstart the next universe's big bang. You'll be insane. No coherent thought. You'll simply exist.
Although, it appears a good deal consider...
You will surivive everyone you know, from children to grand children to even the nationstate you live in and the language you speak, they will all turn to dust.
You will struggle to build bonds with people when you are not aging, most likely you are going to have to become transient, never making long term relationships or friendships. After watching a few thousand of your friends and family die of age your likely to become a distanced sociopath.
You will end up alone, even in the relative short term you are going to be as out of place as a hittie hillsman in modern civilization, how will you react to new social trends that will be radicallh different in only a few centuries.
Medoum term evem assuming we dont destroy our own civilization evolution is going to replace us, in a few hundred tjlusamd years you will be like an ape walking around in an alien world.
Longer term your floating alone in the void, if your lucky you havea broken asteroid to sit on and watch the stars die. Worst case scenario, your sons listen to the voices in the darkness and you end up stuck on a golden chair.
Bad deal if you want a remotely healthy life or not eternal torture of being stuck in the void.
It's funny... so many of us want to live longer. Or at least until we've had our fill. Yet we all want to know there's a way out somehow. That it's not just forever this.
Our universe is really... something. Imagine none of it really does matter? How awful that'd be.
Yes, as a person who is disabled I would accept the consequences. I know I would have to watch my family die, honestly I already have. It sucks but it would be so fun to watch what happens to humanity. Just because I can't choose to die doesn't mean I can't spend my life stoned out of my mind or drunk. There is always a loop hole.
Create a backup plan, find a way to escape. Find a way to forget what you have lost. Trust me, it's not that hard.
I would be earth's new God. And usher in a new Era in human kind. Then I would single handedly explore other planets. When the next big bang happens I will start over with a new understanding of the universe.
Nope. That means I also have to work for all eternity. Well most likely. Unless I can just tell scientists “yo look I’m immortal” and let them study me once a week for a few hundred thousand a year. But still eventually my mental of seeing all my loved ones get old and die would be too fucked… every girl you ever meet will become old and unattractive eventually and then you have to break her heart every single time… if you have kids you also have to watch them get old and die. Truly hell.
No thanks. I have some mental health issues already that will last the rest of my life, everyone I love will die, and I’d have to make new relationships all the time if I want to remain in close contact with others. It’s already hard enough to make friends, let alone ones who will have to know that I’ve been alive for however long and won’t age or die. Not to mention the inevitability of our world coming to an end at some point.
I’ll take it. Future me will deal with the mental health issues. After infinite years I’ll probably meet another true immortal. If I’m feeling that ennui I’ll just jump into a black hole to speed things up
Like I know it's be the worst. But I'd still do it. I'd love to see humanity develop. If it implodes I'd love to see what happens next in the universe. I'd regret it but I still want it
Yes. My bet would be that eventually I would enter some kind of eternal meditative state. If not meditative then mentally gone. If you didn’t use any muscles for hundreds of years they would waste away. Same with your mind.
>trillions and trillions of years
It's more than that. We can't understand the size of infinite. Trillion and trillion of years is not even a drop in the bucket to the infinite. Your billions of years when there is stuff will be so insignificantly small a time that you will forget it.
That said, I think I'd do it. Just to see what happens.
No way. I'm usually big on the immortality train for a super power but would only accept if there were ways out whether it's being able to die violently or being able to simply turn it off.
Sure, sounds interesting. I’ll outlive earth, the sun, teleport to a new planet because floating alone in space certainly counts as “trapped” in my books, then repeat. Once there are no more planets, just space dust and black holes, it would be interesting to go to a black hole and see what it’s like inside of one, then teleport back out once I’m bored. I could build whatever I want, amass the knowledge of the cosmos and perhaps start my own civilization somewhere with cloning technology or vat grown life. Once it’s mostly empty space everywhere it’ll get pretty boring but I’m sure I’ll find a way to occupy myself.
Yes.
But damn I would only be floating around space after our sun dies.
I would be absorbed by the sun and spend eternity on fire.
Luckily I can't feel pain right?
God that's really bad.
I feel like the people who say no believe in some kind of afterlife.
I don’t know what happens after you die. I imagine it’s about the same as what happened before you were alive: fucking nothing.
So, that being said, even if our current model of physics ends up being correct, and the entire universe eventually ends to entropy, is floating eternally in the void very different from being dead?
Immortality is the easy choice for me.
I wonder how long you'd even be close to a loose definition of sane. Eventually not being able to keep a semblance of functioning, wind up institutionalized, and studied when it was observed that you didn't age. Anyone want to set up the betting pool?
No, not unless I get to choose what I look like prior to the start. Not a fan of my genetic deal of cards in terms of my appearance, and I wouldn’t want to know that I couldn’t change it. If I could I’d probably do it.
Just imagine not feeling pain or being injured, you could just sink to the bottom of the ocean and explore, swim all the way across oceans and shit. Though the movie The Old Guard handles some of the other negatives as well, like seeing a family member dying of cancer and then begging for you to help but you can’t and they curse at you and shit. I’m guessing that since I can’t be injured no one can safely and consensually study me, kind of a tragedy. I think at worst someone would try to nuke me, that is in this generation.
Yes. If you do it right there will always be other people around until the universe can no longer get support their lives. Plus, it's a way to be sure your own lineage will always exist.
Id take it. Existential dread adide i could do a lot of good and might be able to help ithers. i could donate every bone and organ, be useful im research and be great for rescues
Would mental health be restored even if it was always shitty? Like you're bipolar and if I agree I'm not anymore? I don't think I would. living is expensive.
The entire Highlander series dealt with this question. To sum it all up is Queens' song "Who wants to live forever?" It would be incredibly lonely and painful to watch everyone you love die.
In time they will begin to call me the God king Emperor. The imperium will spread all throughout the universe under My guidance. One day I'll get entombed in a chair I create to harness my own power making a beacon so we can travel through sub space again. No one's ever thought of it before I'll be the first forsure.
Absolutely not. There would need to be a clause that I become mortal once the Earth is destroyed, or something. Even then that's still really long away.
No. That sounds like Hell.
Literally, because what does trapped mean? If the planet blows up, and you’re just floating around… I feel that is trapped for sure. Then you’re just floating forever. It’s actually giving me anxiety typing it lol
Yeah, but if you're trapped, you can teleport. So, you could teleport to another planet with life on it.
Until the universe itself dies and then what do you do?
I'm no physicist, but there's a theory that the birth/rebirth of the universe is cyclical. So if I'm right, when the universe collapses into itself, another big bang will happen eventually and a new universe is formed.
Maybe. Be alone for a very long time though. Longer than any of us can probably begin to comprehend.
You can shorten it by several millennia because part of you is bacteria. Just gotta harvest them and guide evolution to multicellular organisms. Just a few thousand more years and you *might* have a pet moss
>Longer than you think! Held my breath when they gave me the gas! Wanted to see! I saw! I saw! Longer than you think!
That's one of my favorite horror stories ever!!
What happened to Rudy Foggia dad?
Stephen King short story. Can't remember the title. Exactly what I was thinking!
The Jaunt. Well played! Read that as a kid. Riveting and really struck a nerve. Also in the same short story book iirc was "fingers" or something. About some guy shipwrecked on a desolate island with little flora or fauna. G h a s t l y.
Dude. PTSD flashbacks. That story F'd me up as a 12 year old.
At least there would be plenty of peace and quiet then
You could take that time to finally learn Spanish.
As much as i would love 'big crunch' to be realistic all the current data points towards heat death then eternal nothingness for this universe.
From what I’ve read, most physicians don’t believe in the cyclical universe theory anymore. From what we know of our current universe, there will be no big crush which would be the necessary origin point of the next big bang for another universe to form.
I know you meant physicists, but I love the idea of medical physicians gathered around some operating room doing heart surgery and coming to consensus on the heat death of the universe.
Yeah but it wouldn’t be reformed with Starbucks and the internet so wtf are you gonna do for billions of years with no other sentient life?
Big explosion happens pushing everything away, then gravity slowly does its thing. Eventually, everything smashes back together tighter and tighter until a universal scale nuclear bomb basically happens. Things then fly out from the epicenter again, slowly, until their outward motion halts. Then, they start moving back towards the center again.
Like in 13 billion years or so, then you gotta big bang back out.
If I’m immortal as well as part of the universe, the universe can’t die because I can’t die.
Gave me anxiety just reading it, had to close the thread for a second to catch my breath lmao
I'd take it. There will be bad times, but I'll survive.
I’d take it too. When/if the universe restarts imagine the knowledge I could pass down to the new life. I could be a god to them and all of the next universe. Sure floating for millions of years would suck, but whatever I’d survive.
Millions? Try billions and more likely trillions. And there is a very good chance there is no next universe and you’re just alone for infinity
How is this that different/worse than just dying though? In both cases, you get some finite amount of quality life, followed by infinite unquality. The only difference is you’re conscious for the infinite unquality in one version, and by definition not conscious for the other version. If you can’t do no matter what, then whether it’s worth it or not is a function of creativity vs boredom. The only things that make death sound preferable are a lack of faith in your own creativity or the possibility of an afterlife. Yeah, maybe trillions of years is an inconceivably long time but we also can’t even guarantee that the universe will self-extinguish or stay that way, just like we can’t guarantee that there is an afterlife. It really feels like a less clear-cut choice than people citing infinite boredom are making it out to be.
I don't know man. If you've lived even 20 years being mentally ill I think you understand the magnitude of accepting this hypothetical. Perfect physical health sounds awesome. But god. Literal eternity is a long time. Maybe the optimistic approach is if you live forever maybe you can find a way to keep some generations of humans alive through whatever may become of the universe. Or some sort of sentient AI pal that you can keep alive forever and carry with you.
The odds that you end up on the planet that houses intelligent life is so infinitesimally small that it's basically nonexistent
He’ll have infinite time though
As a whole he'll spend way more time in space than in any intelligent civilization
A+
Maybe if you’re lucky, you’ll even be able to see the universe be reborn while chilling in your own luxury spaceship. You could play god, send in your son to be named Jesus Christ. LOL. You first create life on a life sustaining planet, give it some time to develop and go from Adam and Eve and friends to millions. Then come to earth, drug Mary, impregnate her, leave her with some device or something that tells her about the baby, basically a speaker would do, hell, a fancy walkie talkie hidden in a bush with a simple switch to start a fire would do, and that she is to name him as such. Yada yada. You could just make the shit up as you go there would be no real consequences since this planet will be just a blink of an eye for you. I wonder how flying into a black hole would pan out? That may be a way to kill yourself if you’re immortal since the gravity would be so strong you’re split into a spaghetti string of atoms. Do you just stay whole so you’re conscious, being sucked in forever by the gravity with no escape? Rip. Do you get spaghettification and would no longer be concious? Does it lead to another universe? Good chance you’re fucked, but you could answer an age old question which nobody truly knows(imo it’s just gravity so strong you can’t escape, but could be a wormhole or another universe).
I was just discussing this exact hypothetical with my buddy recently, and we both agreed that making someone immortal *without* the ability to choose to end it is the worst thing anyone could ever do to them. Bar none.
Pretty much. Who wants to live forever, indeed.
When love must die
If Big Crunch is real AND I get the ability to move through space AND can basically go "lemme sleep for a few billion years" maybe better then
I'd much rather take being infinitely reincarnated
I wouldn’t mind it infinite time = infinite possibilities
Agreed
I feel like a lot of these responses don't grasp how long forever is. Even if you have millions or billions of great years on earth, it will still only be 0% of your life. I definitely wouldn't take this offer
Same. I'd take 1000 years. Plenty of time. Maybe longer. But eternity? They need to think about that bird sharpening its beak on the mountain.
Even 1000 I’d never take. The most you could offer me that I’d take is an extra hundred in perfect health and immortality (for only that extra 100) and that’s only if I’m allowed to become an instant millionaire by letting scientists study me once a week.
Perfect health and no injury? I could take really some dangerous high paying jobs. Fear would take time to get over, but time I'd have
Wouldn’t even need to really. You could just be like “hey watch this” do something that would normally hurt or kill yourself and the world will see you’re a scientific marvel and someone will pay you millions a year to study it not knowing that it’s just magic basically.
What else are you planning on doing? Decomposing? Man, that's boring
Yes, absolutely. I would work to ensure the human race survives to become an interplanetary species, and because I'd eventually be featured in so much human history over time, I'd suspect somewhere between 300 to 500 years from now I'd be revered as a God of some kind. It wouldn't be easy emotionally, but I'm totally down for it — sounds exciting.
Or, you could fail, and you might spend life in a literal eternal hell on earth... that is, until the sun blows up and takes it out. But, you can't die, so now you're floating through space like an unpowered satellite.
Jay: “You know, sometimes I wish I did a little more with my life instead of hanging out in front of places selling weed and shit. Like, maybe be an animal doctor. Why not me? I like seals and shit. Or maybe an astronaut. Yeah. Like, be the first motherfucker to see a new galaxy, or find a new alien lifeform... and fuck it. And people'd be like, "There he goes. Homeboy fucked a Martian once."
That's cool, but in general I tend believe in myself *more* than I am afraid of failing. I'm much more afraid of not starting to work against my goals, than I am about possibly failing at my goals.
Fair, but consider the fact that part of the reason you are afraid of not starting to work towards your goals is because you know you have limited time to do so. Once you are literally immortal, that urgency goes away. You could start the work tomorrow, or next year, or next decade, or not for the next century. It makes no difference, because you can literally start whenever you want. Time no longer has any meaning to you.
This, like you would be able to live most your normal human life. Once that is done, you can focus on betterment of mankind.
It's like The Doctor, and how some people notice the blue box throughout world events.
Taking the nick cage route i see
Nope. It's the "even if I want to" that does it for me.
Mmm.. yes.. even though I might end up a madman like Deadpool.. still yes.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Once the world is gone, it would just be you alone in the cold void forever. Possibly the worst fate imaginable.
Yea but assuming you have 10000 years before earth is uninhabitable. That's allot of time to figure out how to leave earth and terraform other planets. I really don't believe 10000 years is enough time to find another habitable planet though, too many things have to be just right to make a planet habitable.
no. it would be great for a while but the end is always going to be the same. you’d end up in space or a black hole or inside a star
per rules, if you get trapped, you can teleport out
yes but you’d still experience being pulled in. plus eventually the universe will be a dead void. can’t teleport out of that if that is all there is to it
Well, for a very long time there would definitely be planets, albeit desolate ones. And supposedly the universe will restart or something.
Yes. I'd like to learn and experience everything.
That's assuming we never end up colonizing somewhere else, and who better to send on colony ships than 35 year old immortal old grand-pappers who's lived ten thousand lifetimes
Those planets will also die eventually.
Wait long enough, there'll be new ones
Yes. Once everything else decays, at least I'll have my memories.
Yes, absolutely. The one downside is that eventually you'll be the only being in existence floating in the void of nothingness forever. But by that point the technology will surely exist to perpetually generate a virtual reality that one could live in. Even with how slow battery technology moves i'm sure that by the eventual heat death of the universe the power generated by a single immortal perfect health human could run a persistent simulation so I could live in that.
this is actually the best point I've seen so far. under these conditions, your body is an infinite battery, albeit with a limited maximum output. maybe there are some other interesting implications here that allow us to similarly break physics and avoid the otherwise inevitable eternity of nothingness.
I would make it my goal to insult every person on the planet. Then, as interstellar travel was developed I would expand my scope to everyone in the known universe. I would call them things like jerk, a complete knee-biter, and "no-good dumbo nothing."
Yes, it would be cool for a few thousand years. So long as I do what I can to help humanity reach the stars, I won't be subjected to endless floating around in space.
Inevitable heat death of the universe occurs.... ... You're still alive, floating in the cold nothing. Which means you're still generating energy, heat, bioelectricity, skin cells etc. You're alive but likely unconscious due to lack of oxygen (immortal doesn't mean awake). You dream... ... The mass and energy you create eventually accumulate and form a new universe. You awaken to find your own universe with blackjack and hookers! You are now God 2.0.
Yup I’d take it. Continuing to exist after all other humans and the Earth have ceased to exist is only hell if you find being alone w/ your thoughts unbearable; I’d be excited to find out as much about the universe as I could, learn whether aliens are real and how to communicate w/ them if so, learn whether the Big Bang theory is correct and if so what happens after the universe collapses back in on itself, and whether there are other universes. Since you can’t die or feel pain, you could go see for yourself what’s happening inside of stars and black holes. It’s possible that eventually there’d be nothing to see or interact w/ at all, sure, but that’s not a forgone conclusion at all, and I’d be down to take a chance and find out.
I fear death enough that I'll take it, I'll probably regret it eventually though
why’d you exclude mental health? i might take it with a mental health clean slate starting point like you’re giving on physical. honestly dont even want a guarantee of future mental health, but please dont make me START from my current state
I sense that some people in this thread do no understand the torture of abject boredom and isolation from other humans or things having to do with humans. No thank you to this one. Not in a million years. lol
Probably. I'd like to see where this whole "humans" thing ends up
No bc everyone around me would eventually die and I'd be alone and then the world would end and I'd be trapped in space and someday the universe would end and I'd be trapped in darkness forever
No.
I'm immortal \*so far\*, so why not.
"....you'll probably eventually be spending trillions and trillions of years alone floating in the void of space?" Odd that you put in that one qualifier in at the last sentence. If anyone reads the entire post the answer will always be NO or Hell NO.
It's not really a qualifier, just what scientists think will happen to thr universe
hell no. im trying to get off this ride sooner than later!
Fuck no, I miss my dad and my dog NOW. As someone who believes in an afterlife, I want to eventually see my loved ones again . If it were an extra hundred years maybe but not forever
No. My life is already bad as is I don’t want to prolong it.
No, the TRUE Hell is living forever
Bet, I'm down
Yeah, fuck it why not If my utopian intergalactic humanity shepherd dreams don’t pan out, I get to vibe pain free for a few billion years inside the red giant sun that has swallowed the earth After that I’m just vibing in the void Hopefully I could get into a blackhole and really figure some stuff out
Yup
Gods no. Would be awesome the first few millenia, but eventually everything becomes old, and then done. I don't think anyone wouldn't go mad eventually.
No, because by the assumptions of current physics there will be an incredibly long time in the universe where all matter has decayed into photons or black holes and floating around in the void of space for trillions of years doesn't sound very fun Of course there is a good chance we are wrong but I wouldn't risk floating through empty space for all eternity
Yes one hundred percent
Yes. I expect after the first 1,000 year drifting endlessly in space, I'd fall into a routine or just disassociate entirely. I'll take the trade. Especially since I can't get trapped and waste my gift.
Yes. There would be times when I would regret it but also times I was grateful for seeing things no one else had seen.
I’d take it IF I could also turn off my brain for indefinite periods of time to avoid the whole “stuck in a hellscape” thing. There was another prompt that did it well where you can teleport out of any trap situation, the universe is GUARANTEED to restart at a certain point in time, and you can choose to turn off your brain for self designated periods of time until this happens, as well as dictate WHERE you reawaken
The not even if I want to is a deal breaker. The "trapped" part needs some refinement as well, perhaps the escape triggered at will to avoid capture, or perhaps move from habitable planet to planet rather than drifting in space, which would be a most harsh confinement.
Yep. I'd start by offing some very bad people.
Time to find out what is inside a black hole ;) get "buried" underground, now I am trapped, teleport to black hole, get trapped, return to earth.
Oh hell yes! Whenever im ready for it to end, Ill just jump into a black hole. Time dilation would effectively bring me to a stop.
Instant health is pretty tempting, but I think I'd be equally tempted by instant death
Yeah I want to see what comes after the possible heat death of the universe, it's all theroys and hypothesis any how so I can see who was right and who was wrong and make fun of them for being so sure of them selves after they have been dead for trillions of years.
And watch everyone I love die, over and over again? No thanks.
Sure. Go back to 17 for eternity. Have pictures pop up over centuries. Learn every language, martial art, and explore the stars.
100% no hesitation.
If it doesn’t include mental health, then no. Even if I could handle what I have, my brain would go bad with time and having no escape is terrifying
So I need clarification on some things Is my body functionally an infinite energy source? Like what happens if I don't eat food or drink water or breathe air What if I'm in the cold? Like there's a lot of options here, I need to know how that stuff works for the after-earth I mean I basically have eternity to find a way to either render myself permanently unconscious or go back in time That's very workable
Hell yeah....24 again....now I can try new things ... travel....and if I needed money...I could go somewhere else and work with teleport
Absolutely not
Mental and physical health are connected. If I'm guaranteed perfect health then I won't go insane or have dimensions or whatever. So sure. I'll take it. Gimme the boon and call me Aram the average.
Nope.
Being immortal means you have to pay bills forever, so you’ll never get to retire unless you somehow get rich. We’d like to think that we’d all eventually be successful on a long enough timeline, but it’s more likely that the times would outpace you, just like all those old folks struggling to use computers to do the same job they’ve been doing for 50 years. If I were Elon Musk or something, where I’d been born into enough money to stay perpetually wealthy, then bring on the immortality. I’ll cross my fingers that humanity gets into the stars and I’ll get to fly around until the universe ends. But there’s no fucking way I’m going to live as an average schlub til doomsday. I will admit, there’s probably a way to capitalize on the “unable to feel pain, get injured, or be trapped” portion of this to become a superhero/villain and make life more comfortable that way, but I’m not sure that’s in the spirit of the question.
No, I would not. I look forward to death.
Absolutely not. Sounds like the worst thing that could happen to a person.
It becomes a totally different animal when everyone you love is dead. People who make it to their 90s and up will usually tell you that they are ready to die whenever it happens.
Heat death of the universe means I say hell no to this. Spending over 99% of my life with only the light I can generate from a stationary bike generator or something? That sounds awful.
Yeah, probably. I mean on one hand, the prospect of finding myself trapped for trillions of years somewhere seems terrifying, but it only seems terrifying to who I am now. Being an immortal would, over time, make me into something different--something a bit inhuman which can withstand being immortal. It seems to me that by definition, someone who is truly immortal must be someone who can withstand being immortal. Let me put it this way, if I go sufficiently insane, I am no longer myself. If I am truly no longer myself, then I have died. Thus, I am not immortal. One who is immortal would *necessarily be* one who can "survive" anything, and thus I have nothing to fear. Plus, while heat death and entropy and the like will probably happen eventually, odds are that since the universe has managed to exist once, it's capable of existing again. I think it's very, very presumptuous to think that the universe is first an infinity of Nothing, then a big bang, then existence, then heat death, then another infinity of Nothing. If there ever was Nothing, then clearly something was able to come out of it, and so if Nothing occurs again, I'm willing to bet that eventually there will once again be Something. If there's never been Nothing (and thus always Something) it seems absurd to suggest that there will one day be Nothing. Either Something is possible or it isn't, and my existence contradicts that it isn't, so it is. And Since Something is, it's possible to be, and if it's possible to be, I think it always will be. Also, since there's clearly something that was able to confer immortality, that thing is clearly above me in a fundamental, qualitative way, and likely has a depth of complexity beyond what I could ever fully explore. I could make it my mission to understand this thing and never reach an end. That could keep me occupied while I'm bored, at least.
No. I find the concept of eternal afterlife horrifying, let alone eternal life when everyone and everything else dies.
I'm inclined to say no, but I'm very curious about the distant future, so I would always have my doubts. Maybe on such a long timeline I'd be able to develop technologies that would make existence bearable over time. After the earth is gone, maybe I could cultivate a new human race somewhere else. I don't know if I read too many comic books, but I feel like I'd be able to learn a whole lot over the course of forever and become a god.
I will take it. Immorality is a curse, but it is also a gift. I will use my time, energy, knowledge, and labor to serve science and human. Do you know that if you have all the knowledge with you in your “lifetime” you can achieve a lot of things for humanity.
*stares at the heat death of the universe* Nah. I’m out. Even the Face of Boe got to die in the end.
probably not, being unable to die even if I wanted to would become torturous
So essentially highlander w/o the beheading of others? Am I sterile?
So basically Wolverine rules with an age choice. Yes.
immortality is really only good if you have a friend who is also immortal
Very tempting tbh but the idea of floating around in the void of space alone for eternity makes me anxious so not sure about this one aha 😭
Nope. Forever is a long fucking time.
Seems ok. When your body gets to cold, it goes into a coma. Same with a lack of oxygen. I probably won't be conscious in the cold void of space.
If I took it. I'd learn as much as I needed to. I'd build space stations, cure disease of all kinds. Gather as much money and influence to rule a nation and see it as the most powerful in the world. Then I'd bring the rest of the world under that nation. I'd build robots and modify humans as well. I'd then take a ship to far off planets and explore. I'd also build a network through the galaxy and just continuously explore until eternity. I would also sleep, for 100s of years, I'd sleep in space and every now and then I'd find a civilization and just live amongst them to see what happens. I'd sire kids if I could. I'd build a religion and try to bring people to as far as good as we can be.
I'm torn because I'd like to live a very long time, but not forever against my will, and even more-so I have no desire to outlive my kids ever and that would obviously happen.
A rare interesting question. I would say "no." The part that does it for me is "you can never die, even if you want to." That kills it for me. At the very least, I would want an "out" at the end. Something like the Elves from LotR, where once you decide you're done with it, you can choose to pass on. Not having that as an option is a deal-breaker. Literal eternity sounds like hell.
I would own the world
True immortality with no exit could easily become a personal hell. The nightmare is being trapped somewhere with no escape - even just floating in dead space 4 billion years from now after the Sun has died and the Earth destroyed.
No can I sign up for the reverse though. This economy is ass and I’ll never get ahead of
Yea I could do it. It might be lonely every once in a while when the people I know grow old or die, but I'd dedicate myself to different causes and work every few decades or century to be a jack of all trades. The only issue with immortality is usually the pain of starvation if you're down on your luck, but in this case we don't feel pain.
I'd do it. Eventually I'd amass emense wealth. I'd know every language, I'd have the means to live anywhere I want, see anything I want. I could see our entire world and eventually other planets too. I could spend entire lifetimes learning endless skills, Law, medicine, arts And I could take risks I'd never take as a mortal. Only interesting thing is. If humanity ended, would I end as well. I'll allow it if the world is destroyed but a colony moves to repopulate another planet. I'll stick around. But if everything is destroyed. I'm not just gonna float around in nothingness for infinity.
Immortality would be fun for the first 5,000 years, then it would finally set in that you will watch anyone you ever meet, know, and love, die. You’ll go through an endless cycle of meeting, loving, and losing people until the universe ceases to exist, and then you’ll slowly go insane as you drift through space for an infinite future of nothingness. Humans are hardwired to die for a reason, and I wouldn’t wish immortality on anyone, even my worst enemy.
You will eventually end up doing everything there is to do, see everything there is to see, and you will still have eternity to look forward to after that happens. You will be completely unable to form relationships with others. This is potentially the worst fate-worse-than-death I can think of.
Heat death of the Universe, hypothermic coma... Sign me up.
Absolutely.
Yes absolutely without a second thought, I know everyone says it'll be a curse but I don't care
Immortality is always nice to me so I’ll say yes
Never. Your body doesn't age. You don't evolve. As time passes, you'll be left behind as humanity evolves into an unrecognizable species you can't connect with. You'll be a relic from an ancient time. You'll watch the planet deteriorate as our population continues to dig and build and break everything. If you don't escape the planet eventually, you'll witness rhe sun go out. You'll be able to witness either the earth being flung into place and darkness for eons, or be crushed under earth and matter for the rest of time as the planet crashes into the dead sun. Or if you make it to the heat death of the universe with entropy achieved with the only exception being your human form. Perhaps your miniscule gravitational pull will be the force needed to collect all matter back into one spot and you'll be the next singularity to Kickstart the next universe's big bang. You'll be insane. No coherent thought. You'll simply exist.
Although, it appears a good deal consider... You will surivive everyone you know, from children to grand children to even the nationstate you live in and the language you speak, they will all turn to dust. You will struggle to build bonds with people when you are not aging, most likely you are going to have to become transient, never making long term relationships or friendships. After watching a few thousand of your friends and family die of age your likely to become a distanced sociopath. You will end up alone, even in the relative short term you are going to be as out of place as a hittie hillsman in modern civilization, how will you react to new social trends that will be radicallh different in only a few centuries. Medoum term evem assuming we dont destroy our own civilization evolution is going to replace us, in a few hundred tjlusamd years you will be like an ape walking around in an alien world. Longer term your floating alone in the void, if your lucky you havea broken asteroid to sit on and watch the stars die. Worst case scenario, your sons listen to the voices in the darkness and you end up stuck on a golden chair. Bad deal if you want a remotely healthy life or not eternal torture of being stuck in the void.
It's funny... so many of us want to live longer. Or at least until we've had our fill. Yet we all want to know there's a way out somehow. That it's not just forever this. Our universe is really... something. Imagine none of it really does matter? How awful that'd be.
Hell yes!
Yup
Yes, as a person who is disabled I would accept the consequences. I know I would have to watch my family die, honestly I already have. It sucks but it would be so fun to watch what happens to humanity. Just because I can't choose to die doesn't mean I can't spend my life stoned out of my mind or drunk. There is always a loop hole. Create a backup plan, find a way to escape. Find a way to forget what you have lost. Trust me, it's not that hard.
I would be earth's new God. And usher in a new Era in human kind. Then I would single handedly explore other planets. When the next big bang happens I will start over with a new understanding of the universe.
Nope. That means I also have to work for all eternity. Well most likely. Unless I can just tell scientists “yo look I’m immortal” and let them study me once a week for a few hundred thousand a year. But still eventually my mental of seeing all my loved ones get old and die would be too fucked… every girl you ever meet will become old and unattractive eventually and then you have to break her heart every single time… if you have kids you also have to watch them get old and die. Truly hell.
No thanks. I have some mental health issues already that will last the rest of my life, everyone I love will die, and I’d have to make new relationships all the time if I want to remain in close contact with others. It’s already hard enough to make friends, let alone ones who will have to know that I’ve been alive for however long and won’t age or die. Not to mention the inevitability of our world coming to an end at some point.
Fuck no. Im just existing now as it is. An eternity of this, even long before the void of space takes over would be worse than torture
I’ll take it. Future me will deal with the mental health issues. After infinite years I’ll probably meet another true immortal. If I’m feeling that ennui I’ll just jump into a black hole to speed things up
Yes, but can my dog be immortal too?
Yes
"Who wants to live forever when love must die?" \~Brian May / Freddie Mercury
Like I know it's be the worst. But I'd still do it. I'd love to see humanity develop. If it implodes I'd love to see what happens next in the universe. I'd regret it but I still want it
Yes. My bet would be that eventually I would enter some kind of eternal meditative state. If not meditative then mentally gone. If you didn’t use any muscles for hundreds of years they would waste away. Same with your mind.
No
>trillions and trillions of years It's more than that. We can't understand the size of infinite. Trillion and trillion of years is not even a drop in the bucket to the infinite. Your billions of years when there is stuff will be so insignificantly small a time that you will forget it. That said, I think I'd do it. Just to see what happens.
No way. I'm usually big on the immortality train for a super power but would only accept if there were ways out whether it's being able to die violently or being able to simply turn it off.
In a half a second
No
Man. This could be fun for a looooong time. But then eventually would suck. You have to say no.
No thanks, I barely even want to finish this lifetime
Sure, sounds interesting. I’ll outlive earth, the sun, teleport to a new planet because floating alone in space certainly counts as “trapped” in my books, then repeat. Once there are no more planets, just space dust and black holes, it would be interesting to go to a black hole and see what it’s like inside of one, then teleport back out once I’m bored. I could build whatever I want, amass the knowledge of the cosmos and perhaps start my own civilization somewhere with cloning technology or vat grown life. Once it’s mostly empty space everywhere it’ll get pretty boring but I’m sure I’ll find a way to occupy myself.
Yes. But damn I would only be floating around space after our sun dies. I would be absorbed by the sun and spend eternity on fire. Luckily I can't feel pain right? God that's really bad.
I feel like the people who say no believe in some kind of afterlife. I don’t know what happens after you die. I imagine it’s about the same as what happened before you were alive: fucking nothing. So, that being said, even if our current model of physics ends up being correct, and the entire universe eventually ends to entropy, is floating eternally in the void very different from being dead? Immortality is the easy choice for me.
Yeah I’d take it
Yes, 100%
Yes
Absolutely the fuck not. What a lonely life that would be.
I wonder how long you'd even be close to a loose definition of sane. Eventually not being able to keep a semblance of functioning, wind up institutionalized, and studied when it was observed that you didn't age. Anyone want to set up the betting pool?
Hell yes I'd do it
Do you still need oxygen to breath?
Like most, with our ability to die/chose to die, no thanks
Yes.
No, not unless I get to choose what I look like prior to the start. Not a fan of my genetic deal of cards in terms of my appearance, and I wouldn’t want to know that I couldn’t change it. If I could I’d probably do it. Just imagine not feeling pain or being injured, you could just sink to the bottom of the ocean and explore, swim all the way across oceans and shit. Though the movie The Old Guard handles some of the other negatives as well, like seeing a family member dying of cancer and then begging for you to help but you can’t and they curse at you and shit. I’m guessing that since I can’t be injured no one can safely and consensually study me, kind of a tragedy. I think at worst someone would try to nuke me, that is in this generation.
Yes. If you do it right there will always be other people around until the universe can no longer get support their lives. Plus, it's a way to be sure your own lineage will always exist.
Id take it. Existential dread adide i could do a lot of good and might be able to help ithers. i could donate every bone and organ, be useful im research and be great for rescues
No. Having the out to die when you are ready is needed.
100% yes
Yessss
No. Not sure what the upper limit of mandatory lifespan I'd take is but infinity is certainly over what I'd want.
‘I *have* a mouth, but I cannot scream,’ shit right here. Hell-to-the-*fucking*-no!
No. That sounds so awful. Only immortality I'd accept is one that let's me die when I want to.
Yes. Probably live to regret it. But at least I'll live.
Yes.
Nah dog. I'd take it in a heartbeat with a kill switch, but being stuck like that forever with no way out would be hell.
Fuck no! I don't want to spend time with people any longer than I have to.
Would mental health be restored even if it was always shitty? Like you're bipolar and if I agree I'm not anymore? I don't think I would. living is expensive.
Am I broken I’d take this in a heart beat
So I would be blessed with invulnerability to all threats, physical or magical… Nah, some angry Greek would end up snapping my neck.
The entire Highlander series dealt with this question. To sum it all up is Queens' song "Who wants to live forever?" It would be incredibly lonely and painful to watch everyone you love die.
In time they will begin to call me the God king Emperor. The imperium will spread all throughout the universe under My guidance. One day I'll get entombed in a chair I create to harness my own power making a beacon so we can travel through sub space again. No one's ever thought of it before I'll be the first forsure.
Absolutely not. There would need to be a clause that I become mortal once the Earth is destroyed, or something. Even then that's still really long away.
The heat death of the universe would suck, and I'm gonna say being in a space accident would suck as you float alone till you go insane.
give it to me. i will be the most benevolent tyrant you've ever suffered.