Discussion You find out you're immortal, what do you do?

[Moonicide]

I'd spend my time traveling around the world every few years so I wouldn't be deemed as suspicious due to my lack of aging, go by different identities, etc. What I would ultimately do on earth is pretty much do good when I can. Help others when possible. I'd be the kiss of death for people that desire it. I'd spend my days providing people with a peaceful death and make sure they die with dignity. If I can't die myself, I'd at least help others travel safely to the other side. It's the least I can do. I know many people would see that as brave, thoughtful, and angelic... No matter if I do good, I'll always be lonely and I'll always be empty. I'll always have to remain guarded and falling in love is something I couldn't bare as an immortal. It complicates so many things... Being immortal would bring the ultimate pain for me.

 

[LegaliseIt!]

Yikes! Can I just be immoral instead?

 

[SoupSnakes]

Eternal panic attack that I have to hang around forever. Lots of face palming.

 

[randomz]

Well, given the fact that absolutely nothing would be able to kill me I will just become the biggest organ donor of all time :D basically donating all of my organs every day. And as my doctors would know that I am immortal they wouldn't have to be carefull when taking the organs out of my system so it will be relatively fast for them and for me as I will want to have time to play videogames for the rest of eternity.

Man,you got me daydreaming hard now :D

 

[ZeroNine]

I would become a badass vampire hunter.

I think I would join the vampire side...

 

[Wayfaerer]

Panic!

 

[BlueWidow]

You could get a job in a science lab testing out dangerous products or poisons, but since you can't die I guess you couldn't help find out if they were deadly. Hmmm. . . .


Or you could spend your time inventing a very powerful sleeping pill. Maybe you can't die, but you could sleep for 20 years or more at a time like Rip Van Winkle.

 

[RedPanda]

Damn, probably the worst fate imaginable!

 

[UninformedLover]

I would cry,endlessly.

 

[NitriteAnatomy]

Go on a journey to find MacLeod , since there can be only one.

 

[notjustyetagain]

after freaking right the fuck out, i'd probably look into "cheating": being permanently e.g. cryogenically frozen, hooked up to anaesthesia/carfentanyl/N₂O-generating chamber, etc... or simply having most of my brain surgically removed. i think i could tolerate being alive without higher brain functioning. if i had to be conscious i would go utterly insane. surely everyone would, after the first TREE(TREE(3)) years, considering that post-sanity period is still a mere 0% of one's lifespan. depending on what happens, seamless/perpetual consciousness gets tricky after a while, so hopefully this can't happen.

compared to this, even eternal reincarnation seems like a doddle, by virtue of consciousness being split up... but both scenarios are ultra-torture.