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Jesus fuck. Why would anyone want to live forever, anyway?
Idk, if I could live forever, I'd like to witness the history of humanity, ala Doctor Who.
i think most people don't really want to die. and they like living for all sorts of reasons. i hope you can think of at least a few reasons you'd like to go on living as well.
I don't wanna live forever. But the act of dying is usually pretty horrible, so I wanna push that off as long as possible.
pushing off dying as long as possible, if done successfully, is living forever though? do you not see the contradiction in what you wrote?
No. Humans aren't psychically able to be immortal without genetic engineering, which as far as the public knows, we don't have yet. Certain death is currently hard codded into our genes. Since I wasn't genetically modified as an embryo, I cannot live forever.
I don't want to die, but living forever sounds exhausting.
if you don't want to die now, and you don't want to live forever, is there some specific age/time you would like to die, if you didn't have to?
It's an interesting question.
After thinking over it briefly, I believe I'd like to die when I'm ready to die. I can't declare in advance when that would be age- or time-wise and I can't even necessarily define the conditions that would make me feel ready, as I've never yet felt ready to die.
Right now, I have a little kid and a decent quality of life. I don't want to die until my kid can be on their own and I don't think I'd want to live after my quality of life declined past a certain point though, again, I can't say yet what that point would be.
I'm sorry, I know this is an unsatisfactory answer, but it's the best I have at the moment. I'll try to pontificate on the matter and get back to you if I come up with anything better.
Freddy, is that you?
I want optional mortality, yes. https://www.fullmoon.nu/Resurrection/PrimarySpecies.html
But, I gotta say, I don't want to spend literally all my time just surviving, which seems to be this anti-aging zealot's day.
Living day-to-day life like a Diablo minmaxer.
Would you like to live one extra year than your otherwise normal lifespan? Yeah?
Yeah that's pretty much why.
No, there's too many dudes like him on the planet.
Clear them out and we'll readdress the question.