Venting How can people want immortality?

[SilentSadness]

I will certainly ctb long before I die of old age, even if I have to use a painful method. I can hardly imagine living the torture of living for an entire lifetime. But it's come to my attention that many people actually want to live forever. How can someone have the line of thinking that makes them want to be immortal?

 

[Tulip<3]

Honestly I wonder the same thing, immortality sounds not fun at all. I guess people who want that are having really good lives lol

 

[painful existence]

Not all human beings have similar lives.Some of humans have amazing lives and it is natural for them to wish that they would continue to live like that for eternity.
There are others who may not have amazing lives but are afraid of death and hence wish for immortality.

 

[gag_order]

I mean when you look closely you can see that those who seek immortality are usually filthy rich and have already amazing lives that they want to keep on going.

 

[numbed one]

Survival instinct Can make you do lot of things

 

[outrider567]

Honestly I wonder the same thing, immortality sounds not fun at all. I guess people who want that are having really good lives lol

See The Highlander(1986)--The curse of Immortality, as he watches his young wife become old yet he still lives forever, on her deathbed, he says to her, 'I love you more now than when we first met'.......

 

[Captive_Mind515]

When I think about immortality and what that life might look like, it actually makes me realise that death is essential.

Imagine your favourite roller coaster… now imagine never being allowed off that roller coaster… ever!

Imagine reading a great book or watching a great movie… now imagine there is no ending, it just meanders on indefinitely with no conclusion. It would be very odd and frustrating.

And that's just the people who are enjoying the ride. It will soon become a nightmare if you can never get off.

I don't know what comes next, but there needs to be a next. There needs to be a conclusion/ending to things.

 

[thot88]

I want to leave because of mental and physical health problems. But if immortality were possible with endless pleasure and without health problems, then it would be fine.

 

[FuneralCry]

I would never be able to understand why anyone would even desire existence at all, only eternal nothingness appeals to me, existence is just something so futile, harmful and unnecessary, immortality sounds like an incredibly hellish punishment, it fills me with enough dread the thought of having to potentially suffer for decades. It actually disturbs me how people would wish to exist forever as existence is just something so repulsive, I would never wish to exist at all no matter the circumstances.

 

[Darkover]

immortality is impossible due to the fact that it is impossible to stop ageing in multicellular organisms, which include humans, bringing the immortality debate to a possible end, 100 percent good health is also impossible anything can cause a injury that can't be fixed immortality is aload of nonsence, even if immortality is possible we're running out of resources quickly within 200 years there be complete depleted

 

[Otto Mann]

What people desire and what they actually receive are two distinct matters.

Immortality for individuals is non-existent, one can merely postpone death.

 

[アホペンギン]

Actually, no one wants immortality, they only say that they want such an undesirable thing because of their ignorance. They're unaware of the hardships that they'll have to endure while being alive. They'll experience the deaths of all of their relatives as a result to being immortal and suffer on a daily basis due to the pain of remaining alive for eternity.