What if you didn't age? - Functionally immortal

Idk, I'd do basically what I do now except with a slightly lessened sense of urgency.
It's not like on a moment to moment basis aging is really that pertinent, it's just an annoying thing that hangs above your head and manifests over time.

Plus even if you aren't getting old, in a sense you still are since everything in the world that you ground yourself upon would still continue to age. It's sort of like material success: it's nice, but its value is really diminished if you're the only one around you experiencing it.
 
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I basically don't age now, I'll still die and might eventually get grey hair but if you workout and take care of your skin you age really slowly. You'd quickly hate it because most people age like milk and the percentage of people who take care of themselves is tiny.
 
It probably won't extend your life as much as you'd think, disease is still a major issue and you'll accumulate a lot of health problems over time unrelated to age and then die from something like cancer.
 
The only kind of person who would truly benefit from or enjoy immortality would be a sociopath which is why Vampires are near-universally assholes
 
umseriously said:
Let's say, hypothetically speaking, that you didn't age for whatever reason. What would you do?
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Hey, I've seen this anime.
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SSj_Ness (Yiffed) said:
I'd think it's rather swell, and just use my infinite time, peak health, and ever growing wisdom to become rich. I'd work my way into politics and eventually rule the Earth alongside my army of descendants.

Eventually, after thousands of years, I'd die along with the last remnants of humanity when an inevitable apocalypse occurs, and calmly embrace death.
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We Are The Witches said:
Everyone around you dies, but you turn a new page, still in your youth, onto a new adventure.

Then you meet new people and start over, it's all about attitude.
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The only rational answers in the thread.

All the fears people raise about immortality invariably boil down to "I can't deal with change". Ironically, this is the same underlying reason people fear mortality, as death is the ultimate form of change. Life is nothing but change. People die, friends leave, new friends arrive. Every experience you have changes you into someone you weren't before. I don't speak the same way I did 30 years ago and at some point I started liking blue cheese. Given endless time, I could even learn not to be a retard.
 
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The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
You will outlive the Kiwi Farms.
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So? Just cause you're gonna outlive something doesn't make it pointless to have fun with shit!
THAT'S RIGHT DRACULA YOU MOTHERFUCKER I NOW YOU'RE POSTING HERE.

Kari Kamiya said:
Hey, I've seen this anime.
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No that's the movie with Bill murray where he's going crazy from the groundhog timeloop hell for about 100 years or so. Time shit isn't going freaky here you just become "old guy that doesn't look like old guy but is still old guy just not grey hair bones hurting old guy"
 
The Lawgiver said:
No that's the movie with Bill murray where he's going crazy from the groundhog timeloop hell for about 100 years or so. Time shit isn't going freaky here you just become "old guy that doesn't look like old guy but is still old guy just not grey hair bones hurting old guy"
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Exactly like my animu.
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That'd be cool I guess but I don't believe that immortality is possible. Aging sure it can be fixed but you gotta go someday man
 
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Long as I could choose to die eventually I'd be down. You'd have to change your identity every few decades like Highlander or the Man From Earth but I'd be genuinely like to see if humanity can ever colonize the galaxy.
 
I'd love it. Aging sucks. If I could take the deal where I die at around 80-100 but remain in my physical prime, then I'd take it in a heartbeat. Hell, I'd take it if I'm immortal. I'm not stupid
 
AbyssGazer said:
If no, I'd probably live my life really carefully at first, building my powers financially and otherwise. Once I had become financially independent I'd explore the world and develop myself spiritually. Then, if nothing kills me before that, I'd probably get really bored and start doing all kinds of crazy shit not caring if I lived or died.
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This basically. Death is a blessing. Can you imagine living with the endless regrets and traumas of life for centuries? I still cringe and reminisce about shit that happened 10 years ago. If I had to do this over centuries I am 100% certain I would go insane. There is a reason an angel guards the tree of life with a fiery sword. We are not meant to be immortal in these fleshy bodies.
 
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I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man.

But really, subjective time would accelerate as you collect years, until people die so quickly you can't form meaningful connections with them, and you'd wind up completely alone with only the thoughts you can't communicate to anyone as company.
 
I would have to ween myself off of human relationships. They're too important for me to constantly have them dying. I would have to treat other people as if I was playing Morrowind and interacting with NPCs. Just flit about, acquire wealth and curiosities, explore the globe on a sailboat, and watch the world burn, rebuild itself, and burn again as the cycle of empires continues. I know the world will never be what I want it to be, and I will not fret over it. The only sort of connection I imagine I would have are my descendants. Living that long, I guarantee I would have an uncountable number of them. But it wouldn't be like personal connection like a family. More like an emotional connection with the line itself, and so long as the line is there, I would feel some kind of connection to the world. I wouldn't want to live like that. Not unless everyone I love could join me.
 
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Am I the only one who doesn’t see what a fantastic opportunity this is?

They made a film about a woman who was struck by lightning and magically could not age. She had lovers, a daughter, but they all aged and she didn’t. It had Harrison Ford in it and he was brilliant.


But anyways, I don’t get why it was such a solemn, sad film.

Ok most books have a premise they work by. The writer says “What were to happen if x…?” and they look at it from all 360 degrees, every angle, up and down. Explore all positions.

But when the premise is immortality, why is living long such a bad thing? This life is pretty good, this world is pretty good. And with all of the wisdom, experience, knowledge and intuition you can pick up, you can go a great deal of good for others and the world. And that probably feels amazing. Like being the silent guardian of mankind, pulling strings from the sideline to help keep the quota of happiness as high as it can be.

You would be like a demi-god. That is too tempting to pass up
 
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If I lived a very long time I would probably become very wise. I would grow a beard, start dressing like a wizard, speak in rhymes, carry a staff, live in a hut, and give advice to strangers that I felt needed it. Make the world a bit of a better place and I also get to dress up as a wizard. I'm just saying, if a wizard came up to me and gave me advice, I'd probably listen to that guy.
 
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