Of course... Not a doubt, why wouldn't I? Since I don't believe in any form of life after death, I'd be happy to live forever.

My first inclination is to say no but it really depends on some other things.   Am I staying in good physical and mental health or am I going to spend eternity in a nursing home (I'd chose hell first!)?    And how about my family and friends?   Are they living forever or are they dying at a normal age?

i  would never live forever.
this world has too many problems and complications and hardship for a person to live in .

I agree with Dross. Living for a very long time is fine, but I wouldn't want to live forever. No matter what you do, if you live forever then there will eventually come a time when you have done everything so many times that everything is boring. Being bored is especially boring, which compounds the problem to no end.

And if we're getting really hypothetical, then eventually the universe would either collapse in on itself and kill everything, or expand out so much that everything is very very far away from everything else and everything is also really cold and therefore lifeless (apart from maybe bacteria-type). I certainly wouldn't want to be around in either of those situations.

Fun fact: Many scientists believe that the first person that will reach an age of 200 is alive today.

But as long as you were living, you would exist, meaning humanity still existed, meaning you would keep living, meaning you would keep existing, meaning... etc.

It's a circle of perpetuality.

Ok, here's what.
Everytime you wander into a black-hole or get crushed by a meteorite or fall off a skyscraper or die of chocolate poisoning you respawn at a respawn point like in games!
And for the question's sake, let's say the universe's cosmology just stays exactly the same it is today forever, with a spherical shape so that it is impossible to reach the end of the universe

Last edited by Toast (2006-11-17 02:06:32)

yeah who doesn't
and to answer teh question....
i wouldnt want to live forever......too much to take in and too much challenges
right

But as long as you were living, you would exist, meaning humanity still existed, meaning you would keep living, meaning you would keep existing, meaning... etc.

It's a circle of perpetuality.

Do you really consider me humanity?  Wow, thanks for the complement.

Seriously though, humanity isn't one person.  Humanity is the interactions of entire cultures and even across cultures between many many different people.  One person will never make humanity.

unique wrote:

yeah who doesn't

I don't...

I don't think life would get boring.

Last edited by Patrick (2006-11-18 21:08:52)