Can only imagine how nice to see my family and friends. Then as 100 years past I can see all my ancestors, Then another 10000 years go by and well I am tired of this shit, But I have millions of years ahead of the same old stuff. Think how it would be to be eternally attached to this mess. I prefer to see myself as dead and my atoms are the ones that are on the immortal journey, Oh my what new organism will share my atoms. Now that is interesting

Yup travel the universe

I have no interest in being around when humanity destroys itself.

I've about had it with this bullshit. I don't want to live forever.

No thanks, seems too wearing

Maybe I’ve seen too many Sci-fi shows on the subject, but living more than 80-100 years sounds misery-inducing unless you’re stinking rich. Also,you didn’t specify how or whether one would age, which makes a significant difference. But outliving all of my friends and relatives repeatedly sounds awful. I’m also betting the planet gets small really fast once you’ve seen all of it. ? Mortality is fine by me, thanks.

Just think, you could live long enough to become the stupidest person alive.

No that sounds pretty terrible.

Yes. Always. Because otherwise I will never have enough time to read every book I want to read, see every movie I want to see, and travel to everywhere I want to go.

Sign me up for immortality!

So something like a religious zealot with his AK or a suicide bomber could still level me in your scenario?

I already am immortal. I'll let you now what it's like as I go along

Don't know really. Simone de Beauvoir wrote an interesting philosophical novel on the topic, " Immortal Man". It deals with a man that was immortal and his reflections on his many lives. A good read.

Then you will be close to all knowing in 500 years.

All these immortals may cause a population problem. And if all got too much you couldn’t do away with yourself.

That depends on what would happen to me when the Sun enters the phase where i incinerates the earth, but probably I'd say no.

Really. Why not?

Choice implies free will -- choosing to be immortal. If nothing I did mattered to my life, which would be the case if I was immortal, what would be the basis of any choice? Being mortal allows me to make choices based upon the fact that my choices affect my life. If I were immortal, I couldn't choose to be mortal. If I was immortal, what would be the purpose of my life? Life without purpose is meaningless.

So, yes, I want to be immortal... (is this the Silly, Random & Fun forum?)

Im surprised that some people said no, id give up or do just about anything to live forever, and out of all the forms of imortality potentialy real and ficticiuos i would take routes that allot find disagreeable.

No.
I think that I would just be tired of everything. In thinking that overpopulation is going to cause a lot of problems in the future. There will likely be food shortages, dwindling resources which will result is wars throughout the world.

I wouldn't have to worry about death or sickness.

Yes, but not because I really want to live literally forever. It's just nice to have options. I'd like to chose the time and means of my final exit, rather than nature choosing it for me.

My problem isn't that I fear death, it's that I'm too damned curious. Is there really an infinite fund of novelty to experience? I seriously doubt it. I give the average human psyche about a 100 year half-life, and doubt anyone in their right mind would want to endure more than a few hundred years of this bullshit we call life. It doesn't have that much to commend itself to us.

However ... as someone working on his 7th decade, and facing the decay of my body and for all I know my mind, I don't feel I'm exiting on my own terms, so ... yeah, I'd take the hypothetical pill that would give me biological immortality. I'd like to see if we can sustain space colonies and if we manage to snuff ourselves out or not. I can always say "fuck it" if I don't like what I see.

Sure, but only if I didn't keep aging - stayed "frozen in time" that way.
Figure it would be an opportunity to learn many languages, travel places, keep going as there would the be ultimate bucket list and all the time to complete it.

Besides thinking how much the US (and the world has changed) from 1700 to 1800 to 1900 to 2000 - would be interesting to get a better sense of the macro trends in society rather than the day-to-day micro-trends.