You've been offered immortality, will you take it?

Will you take this immortality?

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Let's put it simple and assume it's a genuine offer and you're convinced that it is as well, just to avoid the skepticism you'd have naturally if this happened; you must accept it, or reject it.
The considerations you'll need to make if you accept:

Senescence will halt for your body at around age 40-50, so it's not like you'll be young again, but it won't get worse than that. All types of wounds, whether internal or external regenerate at the normal pace of your body's age/condition, even if without resources, so you won't die/get extremely ill due to hunger/something else either, but mild pain remains if you're not careful.

Oxygen deprivation causes discomfort, but you don't fall unconscious and can operate somewhat normally due to the "immortal substance" that is now yourself. Also because of this, extreme pain (caused for whatever reason) fades away eventually since you get accustomed and your brain temporarily numb to it.

Your capability for gaining knowledge has the natural limitations as well, so you may get extremely wise from living over centuries and starting to learn all kinds of things, forgetting, remembering and relearning, but your (now stagnant) 40-50 years old brain can only function to what it's physically allowed and no further (like your memory has a natural limit).

You'll watch everyone age and die, unable to do so yourself. Far beyond humanity perishing and the planet itself starting to suffer from celestial objects and bodies, being sucked by gravity or altered in your trajectory by gravitational keyholes when you potentially get expelled to space, eons from now.

Watching the universe freeze, all the time in the world. Eventually, you could reach a stable planet and witness another Earth being born. You can do whatever you want, even some forms of eugenics to alter certain creatures' evolution as it goes, or even becoming the god/savior/guidance of intelligent lifeform (until they turn on you, but you exterminate them, DOOM style).

All of this will have to be balanced in your mind before you make the decision, because once you choose you can't go back. So, what will it be?
 
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I have enough trouble dealing with seeing how much the world changes within my own lifetime. To live long enough to see society morph so wholly that its all completely alien would be a new and fresh hell. There's also no way mentioned to share this immortality so you'll only have comparatively short and shallow relationships.

Pass.
 
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Fuck yes.

I don't need to think about it, I am down.

I don't care about people in a personal way, so I am fine with some turnover, and I am very much afraid of death.

This sounds awesome, I am pumped.
 
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Not if I can't take the people I love with me.

Honestly, if you have people in your life that you care about and are willing to become immortal then you must have something wrong with you.

Besides, who wants to be a saggy grandpa forever?

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I have enough trouble dealing with seeing how much the world changes within my own lifetime. To live long enough to see society morph so wholly that its all completely alien would be a new and fresh hell. There's also no way mentioned to share this immortality so you'll only have comparatively short and shallow relationships.

Pass.
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This also, plus when human beings eventually evolve into a form that no longer resembles what you actually look like then you'll either have to go into hiding or become an eternal laboratory experiment when people realize what you are.

I can imagine being used as a test subject for the effectiveness of new weapons once they realize the can't extract the secret of immortality from you.
 
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I genuinely don't believe the human mind or ""spirit"" could handle that. I believe anyone and everyone would eventually, like Kars, cease thinking entirely due to sheer inescapable existence, fatigue, and madness. That in and of itself would be akin to true death, so even the deathless would eventually "die". I would not take it, I'd rather the gift of death, i.e. Utter and Complete Painlessness.
 
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Immortality is always a no go unless there's an available out.

Anyways there's no way a person could tolerate floating through the void for potentially thousands of times the normal human lifespan with no novel stimuli without desensitizing and eventually losing their consciousness entirely.

Also if a person's body regenerates at a normal rate that they would given their injuries, how does that work when they fall into a star, or even better into a black hole and are ripped apart down to their constituent particles?

Is there no interruption in consciousness? Then where and how do thoughts occur? Can you stick your head in an industrial meat grinder for a break until your brain regenerates?

I don't know, the whole thing seems very profane and against the natural order.
 
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What happens when the universe dies
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You'll watch everyone age and die, unable to do so yourself. Far beyond humanity perishing and the planet itself starting to suffer from celestial objects and bodies, being sucked by gravity or altered in your trajectory by gravitational keyholes when you potentially get expelled to space, eons from now.

Watching the universe freeze, all the time in the world. Eventually, you could reach a stable planet and witness another Earth being born. You can do whatever you want, even some forms of eugenics to alter certain creatures' evolution as it goes, or even becoming the god/savior/guidance of intelligent lifeform (until they turn on you, but you exterminate them, DOOM style).
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how would you establish and maintain your identity, though?

not in the intellectual or spiritual sense, but in the practical sense that would allow you to function in the world ... how would you obtain identification? how would you earn or spend money? how would you acquire anything that you would want or need without the ability to verify who you are as time passes?
 
Even better, could we CHOOSE people to be immortal at the age cap of 40-50? If so, I'll gladly give it to Joan Crawford.
 
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The biggest personal catches are with the physicality and memory of a mid-40s adult, but those are easily offset through good diet, exercise, and neurological stimulation. Most things that tend to turn you stupid are the same things that are lethal to the brain, so odds are the immortality would offset if not outright prevent those, if it's capable of protecting you from asphyxiation.

The next issue is seeing all the people you know die, which is of course traumatizing and tragic, but I'm gonna reframe the problem here: You would not choose to ever give up on any positive close bonds you have with someone - familial, romantic, platonic, etc - most likely. They are also going to die regardless of your own mortality. You're still gonna meet new people and likely forge new bonds if you're immortal. Obviously these aren't replacements, but the odds of them having the same level of sentimental and emotional impact on you are pretty high. You obviously wouldn't want to give up on those once you've formed them. They also would inevitably die. But choosing against immortality now retroactively gives up on them. So this problem's a lot more autistic and semantic and arbitrary than it looks and isn't really something you can objectively say is good or bad. It's more a question of how used to death you already are.

Then the final issue is the loss of earth, heat death of the universe, etc - it's physically impossible to know what any of that could or would even be like. Even trying to speculate about it aside from "You'll likely have to deal with the asphyxiation discomfort if or when you stop being on Earth" is an exercise in futility.

Too autistic didn't read: Too many unknown variables to consider bad, also I want to live long enough to be able to forget the image of Adam Kovic's asshole and this is the best way to do it.
 
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