[Poll] Biological Immortality - yay or nay?

[phaedruss]

SvennoJ said:

phaedruss said:

SvennoJ said:

LemonSlice said:
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.

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.

Existential boredom

Doesn't existential boredom come from a feeling of life being meaningless, which would be accelerated by the realization that it doesn't matter what you do, you're going to die sooner or later anyway. Seems biological immortality would help with that.

Life can be meaningless whether you die or not. Dying soon doesn't necessarily have anything to do with it because all life could be meaningless, there could be just nothingness once existence fades away etc etc