Just change it to "You know that time I had that long daydream about what to do if some magical entity offered me any wish but only if I used it perfectly selfishly and I spent a few hours wandering in circles coming up with the perfect wording for that wish in my head? That."
That's why my answer was "years as a happy, healthy person in a young body still to live, from tomorrow". You never know if the wish is being granted by a genie...
I'm 44 now and I've got a bum knee, lower back pain, and acid reflux. I will murder everyone in the room and then myself if I have to deal with another century of this, never mind 49 of them.
If lifespan is 1000 you’ll age in proportion. Menopause at 500. For 50 years straight. Puberty for 50 years. Cancer will grow slow from 700 to 1000.. about 300 years of cancer battle. Jisus. Hope you have good insurance. Medicare won’t want you for that long!
"Years of youth"? Might get turned into a perma-baby.
"Years of being 25"? Welcome to groundhog day.
"Years of having my body be as healthy and young as it was when I was 25, but also time is progressing normally?" Really feels like we're stretching the "starts with a y" premise at that point.
How about being locked up in a straight jacket in a concrete slab deep under the ocean?
Or in a spaceship flung out into the open space?
5k years.. enough time for a cult of hate against you to come around. And we all know this would have a fanatical following. And there's not a single person around who would have as much historical context as you, so watch out for your every word. It would be like sharing a planet with rabid fanatical dumbasses with the attention span of a toddler, compared to you.
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Also, falling in love would at some point become impossible as the age gap widens. Also you would see the entire population of earth get born, grow old and die. At least 50 times. Imagine seeing your thousands of great great great grandkids fighting in wars against each other over race, nationality, religion, territory..
Trust me, I visited my grandmother in the hospital recently because she fell in the kitchen (she's ok now). It was the most depressing place I've ever been to. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. Living to that age just isn't pleasant.
Depends on how you look at it. Living at 100 sucks right now, but in 200? 500? 1000 years? We were throwing sticks at each other not that long ago. Technology is scaling exponentially on itself. Even we couldn't revive a body, then transference or other forms of continuance would become possible.
Wouldn't it be something if we'd pulled it out though.
I'm not thinking go all Star Wars or even Star Trek, just advanced and tamped down on the stupid.
I'm sure we'd have wars and natural calamaties but wouldn't it be something to see that we'd persevered over all that and got things on a good track , we still have our problems but we've definitely turned that corner. I think that might be a fun story to explore.
It can't be better than nothingness, because nothingness isn't comparable to anything. Being dead is the same as pre-birth. That is to say, it's not so bad.
People thought the same thing 150 years ago. They thought that the streets would be lined with horse poop and trash, but we found new technologies that allowed us to live cleaner.
Star Trek: TNG: ‘Time’s Arrow’, Data talks about how comforting the knowledge that he will die is.
LaForge:So, do you want to talk about it? Data:Are you referring to the foreknowledge of my death? LaForge:Yeah. Data:I have no particular desire to discuss the matter. Do you need to talk about it? LaForge:Yeah. Data:Why? LaForge:Data, this has got to bother you a little. Data:On the contrary. I find it rather comforting. LaForge:Comforting? Data:I have often wondered about my own mortality as I have seen others around me age. Until now it has been theoretically possible that I would live an unlimited period of time. And although some might find this attractive, to me it only reinforces the fact that I am artificial. LaForge:I never knew how tough this must be for you. Data:Tough? As in difficult? LaForge:Knowing that you would outlive all your friends. Data:I expected to make new friends. LaForge:True. Data:And then to outlive them as well. LaForge:Now that you know that you might not? Data:It provides a sense of completion to my future. In a way, I am not that different from anyone else. I can now look forward to death. LaForge:I never thought of it that way. Data:One might also conclude that it brings me one step closer to being human. I am mortal.
yeah at that point I think people will feel more like pets, and you know your relationship with all your loved ones are gonna be temporary. so you kinda learn how to grieve them. I'd say the only important part of this deal is to make sure you're getting 5000 years of a young and able body.
Yeah, as much as I might mourn the deaths of the people I know, I feel like I’ll eventually get over it given enough time. And after some time I might not even care anymore.
Depending on how this immortality thing works. If I would stay young healthy and indestructible I wouldn't mind.
The other thing is, if the world would ever get destroyed I would need the ability to fall asleep until there is human life again. Even if that means sleeping million of years.
Also having a group of people with the same ability to always be able to reproduce.
I would hate having to live that long. I mean, I'm 40 and miserable enough as is (though not suicidal, don't worry). I can't imagine the horrors of realizing that I'm not even 1% of the way through.
Would you? Assuming the rest of the world doesn't get a longer lifespan, you'll see everyone you care about die, over and over again, simply because your lifespan is over 50 times as long as theirs. And if everyone else's lifespan is increased as well, that means the entire planet will be overcrowded to death before the start of the next century.
And whichever is the case, you'll have to see and live through so much shit. In 5000 years you'll be guaranteed to see the fall of the country you live in. You'll have to deal with war and famine, climate change, rising sea levels and pollution. And these are just the issues you'd have to deal with if you're mentally healthy to start with, it gets worse if you're not.
People already looking in rough shape after just 90 years. 200 years in being a blind, deaf, motionless lump of arthritis but still conscious would be absolute torture.
Friend. I have a hard time just making it through this required lifetime. I respect your ambition, but please no. I can't imagine trying to suffer through this for 5000 years. I assume at some point, I'd figure out how to manage, but. Still.
Imagine getting cancer at age 70, and knowing you now have another 5,000 years to live with it, and not just the old age and family that will die before you. T.T
I’ve got a house and 6 figure job but most Americans live paycheck to paycheck and many people under 30 can’t afford a home right now. Most retirees would literally be broke without social security. So yes, your money should be working for you but please stop with patting yourself on the back smug bullshit…
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u/HauntedFaculty 5d ago
Years to live