<p>the main reason people want to live forever is so they could do everything they wouldn’t have time to anyway; thus partially invalidating option 2. at least that’s how I see it.</p>
<p>Option 1, of course.</p>
<p>Option 2 equates inevitable boredom, depression, and suicide.</p>
<p>^Don’t forget loneliness.</p>
<p>Option two will also definitely lead to loneliness, which is critical. Too much loneliness can lead to death.</p>
<p>Without a doubt, option one.</p>
<p>What about you, BillyMc?</p>
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Or that the concept of death and the possibility of the complete destruction of their beings and a halting of thought and feeling is frightening and/or undesirable.</p>
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I am surprised by the number of people so sure that they would kill themselves so soon. I do not know what I choose. I believe that I should find option one more desirable, but I can see a draw in option two. I am glad that I do not actually have to make such a choice. Ultimately, I feel that I would go with option one, but not as quickly as so many others seem to have chosen.</p>
<p>I would choose option one even if it offered nothing new to me but a shortened life.</p>
<p>I wonder what people would choose between a normal life and an immortal life where you could not commit suicide or die in any way. No freedom/imprisonment factor.</p>
<p>“Death is very likely the single best invention of Life.”</p>
<p>Steve Jobs -the co-founder of Apple- said that in his Stanford commencement speech. He has got a point, what would life be without death? It surely wouldn’t be as precious or wonderful as it is now. Human beings are terribly finicky creatures. You know the saying “You never know what you have until you lose it”, well it somewhat follows that. People cannot really appreciate happiness unless they have experienced unhappiness, there’s no good without bad, no light without dark, no rainbow without a little bit of rain. It would be the same with life and death. If there was no dying and no end, life wouldn’t be so sweet.</p>
<p>But, what do you mean? As in the person being the only immortal being, everyone else leading relatively normal and mortal lives. Or everyone being immortal? That’s an important factor.</p>
<p>To quote Marylin Monroe: “Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right”, following the same basis, Death exists so that you can appreciate Life.</p>
<p>By the way, real loneliness is a horrible thing. No one really wants to live a life resolving around loneliness.</p>
<h1>1. #2 sucks. lol</h1>
<p>Who’d want to live immortally? Your physical self may still be sustained, but your psyche will be forever bruised by the caveats of confinement. Immortality also means living through the deaths of those dear to you, and, although most worry about themselves, I can’t bear an eternity of misery confined to a room, when, once in a while I will hear about the death of a loved one.</p>
<p>That being said, perhaps immortality and the progression of the ever-changing world shall devise a method that cheats death. Assuming so, maybe one can live with the insurance that everyone in the outside world is alive and well. </p>
<p>The way I see it, time will complete the loop it started - Barbarism, steady progression, advancement - DYSTOPIA. I’d rather live 20 years through steady progression and advancement before Sci-Fi fancies. In the end, depends on your beliefs. This world shall end in accordance with personal beliefs and those immortal, what will happen to them? Will they desiccate in a limbo without the influx of supplies that kept them alive? 20 years of memories is enough to provide for one’s sustenance at the END. Assuming their will be one.</p>