Ask Lemmy

No plans. I die like a real man.

Who wants. To live. Forever?

I don't intend to live forever, that sounds rough as hell.

my background in biochemistry makes me think it's almost guaranteed to be impossible, so i don't worry about it.

however, in hypothetical case it isn't, i'd argue that it would be proper to destroy this technology in all cases along with inventors, because it would be horridly expensive initially, and first people to get it would be people like peter thiel and larry ellison. there was a recording where putin and xi admitted that they are also interested. then what you'll get would be class of immortal oligarchs. planck once said, progress in physics happens one funeral at a time, it's really more general than just physics, and you can say goodbye to any progress from that point on

Why the hell would I want to live forever, I don't want to be alive now

Thanks to denial, I'm immortal!

I don't? It sounds like a horrible curse. Part of the reason life is meaningful is that we're only temporary witnesses of the universe.

Fuck forever, just let my upcoming prostate biopsy be negative. I'm retiring and I have shit to do that doesn't involve sitting in front of the TV wearing a diaper.

I'm supposed to have a plan for this?

Only insane billionaires plan for that.

I'm not looking to live forever. Just another 40 to 50 years as long as I'm healthy. Only plan for that is to eat somewhat healthy and get a couple hours of cardio and strength training in a few times a week. Nothing obsurd just enough to maintain strength as I age and get the heart pumping.

I've seen enough sci-fi to know it's a terrible idea! 🤣

I only plan for things that are possible so no plan to live forever.

Having said that, scientists are working on a cure for aging. Even if they sort that out before I die, the treatments will be too expensive for me.

I honestly can't think of anything less appealing than dealing with other people forever.

I have no intention of trying to be immortal, just try to live a long time through healthy eating and exercise

If we're speaking how I'd like to do that if possible, just put my brain into a robot body. Or just upload my whole mind into a robot.

If we're talking realistically:

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I'm just gonna wing it!

You know I'm born to lose, and gambling's for fools, But that's the way I like it baby, I don't wanna live forever

I have no plans to live forever as a separate being, but I am hoping to attain nirvana so that I end the ending the suffering involved with death.

No plan
Hope someone else figures it out before I'm too old to make it worthwhile

I plan to die like a normal human being.

Have no idea why people want to cling to this life for super long. It really isnt that amazing.

And I'm here wanting to end it the moment my organs start failing

I have "kidnapped" a small child and am brainwashing them to think like me.

they will be me, essentially.

one day they will do the same, and "I" will live on for eternity.

When my time comes I will rid myself of the delusion that I was anything other than a piece of the universe experiencing itself.

Maybe something fundamental of me will return. If the Buddhists are right I have a suspicion of what I am learning in this life and what I will need to learn in the next. But otherwise I will simply no longer distinct at further points in time, just as there are prior ones I was not distinct at.

Completely ignoring my own mortality, followed by crushing deathbed betrayal and disappointment

The name on my Park Run card is "Do Not Resuscitate"

Breathing.

Like Bob from the Bobiverse.

Oh, god, I don't. Not even close.

I expext to live forever, seriously. Just not in this body and not on this planet.

"Forever" is a long time. Only this universe still has a few billion years to go. Washing my dishes every day for all this time would be boring. No thanks!

Shrug. The closest that real biology allows. I already have children so at least some sense a part of me will live on for at least the duration of their lives.

Past that I'm with most people on here that immortality sounds horrific. Now I can get behind extended life span especially if medicine and society provide for being actually healthy and able to enjoy it. Just not forever.

Thats the neat part, I dont. I simply continue the routine of putting food in my face and if anything bad happens... Try and deal with it.

Due to my job, if about half of the fortold "end-timed" occure, its not an issUe not an issME. Ill probably be at ground-zero of what ever it is, or atleast down the block from it...

Have fun in the appocalypse. If its zombies, I get to do that one.

Y'all are crazy, I'd take immorality in a heartbeat if anyone was offering.

Realistically I'll probably die in a heat wave.

Just for fun, if a like-minded individual has any possibility to physically preserve my brain (not a copy!) in their makeshift lab I'd probably roll the dice on that one if things were half-clean. Yeah, I know, the odds aren't good.

In terms of cyborg stuff, I would want something more organic than popsci typically shows though. Like having a semi-synthetic body that is its own multi-cellular, symbiotic organism. That can further connect to other things (like to the myconet to exchange resources).

I would not want to live forever, though. If I did anything like that I'd probably live isolated for a while and then retire into my own brain.