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Immortality would be fun for a couple of years, then it would get boring. And considering we already live longer than a couple of years, I consider it pointless.

And completely wrong, of course.

Those around you die and yet you live on? A mixed blessing, no?

absolutely yes, there is tiny hope that this is obtainable within my lifetime. remarkable research is happening every day which brings us closer to this goal. I think it will boil down to "you can live as long as you want so long as you have the capital" at least for a while. as always, choice should be involved. to say one *ought* not seek to prolong life is actually a complete denial of the underpinnings of life itself, I have to question the intellect of anyone claiming this is immoral.

You serious, bro? The apocalypse is coming because we're coming to understand how the human body works and what causes you to age? There's a cause behind everything that functions in our body. Pituitary gland starting the process of puberty. Sperm and egg making a zygote. Brain sending electrical signals to the body to make it do what it wants. You think they knew about that stuff in Biblical times? So how is it an abomination to be able to manipulate them? Oh...those things I just mentioned that we know how to manipulate aren't abominations (in vitro fertilization for people who can't conceive naturally, HGH therapy for kids who don't grow during the adolescence phase, etc), but this other thing that we know how to manipulate is? Looks like "abominations" are pretty arbitrary. Not to mention there are already creatures that are biologically immortal, so how is it an "abomination" when some of "God's creation" were, well, "created" that way? Death will not "flee from him" in the scenario of biological immortality, either. Jumping off a cliff will fix that right up. So that's also wrong.

Don't let such arbitration/demonstrably false teachings stymie scientific progress. It's selfish and it holds us (as a species) back.

Now, OT, a hell nay from me. After a while....I'd just want to be done. Living on forever and ever (and this would apply to the guy I quoted as well, since I'm sure he believes in an afterlife) is not something that's desirable. Can you imagine living a billion years? A trillion? A Googol? It's too much. In a practical sense, still a nay from me. First off, the only way I can go out is to get shot in the head, hit by a bus, get cancer, etc? That's horrible. And secondly, we are limited in our resources. There's only so much food, water, electricity, shelter, etc. that can be used. If people started being (biologically) immortal, we'd run out of resources to use.

I think people would eventually go insane if they lived too long and they would commit suicide. The only way it might work is going into cryosleep at about 200 years of age for about 100 years then waking up, hanging out for 10 years then going back into sleep for another hundred years, rinse and repeat ad infinitum.

All options for genuine immortality seem like shit, so I'm not interested and I don't think it'll ever happen. I can see lifespans getting up to 150 to 200 though and that seems plenty long enough for doing pretty much all the shit you might want to do in life.

Lol at these type of ques-tionz. "what would you do with a time machine" "what would you wish if you had all dragon balls" etc etc

these things will never happen

You all need to see this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GcL3a4WK6M

Do not underestimate what humans can achieve. The way we live right now is comparatively primitive to what we've discovered up to this point. Google (the company in which the futurist in the documentary now works for) spent half a billion dollars to acquire DeepMind, a leading AI startup, also created their own company called Calico for the express purpose of solving the "problem of aging," this is pretty serious business.

....also, time travel in theory is possible, but only when travelling forward in time - so no Marty's mom 1955 for you.

What is this boredom you speak of. I haven't been bored since I was a kid. How can anyone be bored in this day and age.
Unless you replace actual boredom with wanting to do something else than what you currently have to do. Immortality would only give you more time to do the things you want.

The system of people ageing, getting worse at their jobs, then being inactive for upto 30 years, having to grow new people for upto 30 years befor becoming productive, how inefficient is that. With biological immortality everyone could work half the time and still be more productive than we are now as a species.

Well, if this even was a possibility (extreme hypothetical) I would rather die and be with God and Jesus Christ than I would live on this planet for that many years. And I say "that many years" instead of forever because at some point, something Biblical would occur that would end this aspect of my existence and start the greater one. This is obviously my stance, and I don't expect many others here to agree with me.