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

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 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.

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

Thanks to denial, I'm immortal!

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

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

I'm just gonna wing it!

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.

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.

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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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

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

Breathing.

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.

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

Look at the world around you, do you really want to live forever? The more time passes the more death seams like retirement from life.

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

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.

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

Just fly a rocket into a stable orbit near a black hole and wait until the time dilation causes 1000s of years to pass on earth, then go back and hope someone has figured it out.

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

Like Bob from the Bobiverse.

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

"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!

Magic notebook.

Everything I write in it becomes true.

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.

Keep doing what I'm doing. It's worked so far.