Would you become immortal, if you had the choice?

It would be ideal if the only way we could die is by voluntary suicide.

I would love to be immortal! Get to see humanity destory itself and be able to laugh at it! Lol, so my answer is yes I would become immortal if I could *insert evil laugh here*

We R immortal; we just molt, like lobsters.





David

Umm. totally immortal no. There is alot that could go wrong nuclear war, a rogue asteroid the LHC (just kidding bout that last one). Say that everything goes fine for a while. Five billion years go by and the sun expands into a red giant or goes nova youll get one helluva tan after your done chillin in the sun you'll float in space forever. After a few more trillion years entropy will reach it's maximum and everything everywhere will be the same. I suppose you could extrapolate out and you may land on a habital world the next time the univrse forms . But as a general rule no immortality would suck after a few million years.

Yes, I'd become immortal. We are born and we live our short lifes. If we survive, the mistakes we make along the way, and live along life. We try to share that which have learned with the young before old age takes that knowledge from us. But the young do not listen and are destined to make the same mistakes. If I were immortal, Id devote myself to study. Study of every philosophy, culture, profession, and art there is in the world.
Think if the knowledge and experience of a human beings life, was not lost or didn't have to be retaught to the next generation. We as a specises could increase our knowledge, wisdom and understanding of each other and the world around us to new levels. We could raise the bar on those we term skilled and masters in every discipline.

Hell yes!
I have wanted immortality for years.
just to wander the planet and see the advancement of technology...and occasionally kill people for no reason other then entertainment.

It is a biological fact that everyone already IS immortal.
When we have out of body experiences, that part of us that
is permanent gets out of the shell and re-enters.

So-called "death" is only molting,
like a lobster dropping off his exoskeleton.
Then he grows.

People who have returned from "death"
have complained that the human body is too cramped,
like getting stuffed into a mayonaise jar.

The question of:
arises from the mis-identification of the human body with the person himself,
who uses it, like a motorist uses his car.

(Note: I just got back from a convention of the International Association of Near Death Studies,
www.IANDS.org
in Durham, North Carolina, where there were quite a few people who have returned from death of the human body
and several medical doctors who are studying [and publishing] the phenomenon. It was refreshing.)





David