Foo - To die or not to die?

Hello everyone:

I'm considering immortality, but I think it would definitely get boring - especially near the end.

Anyone have any thoughts?

I think being dead would be even more boring. Immortality for me, thanks.

I thought there could be only one.

Until the seqel, when another one gets discovered in a time machine or frozen in a block of ice or whatever.

Until the seqel, when another one gets discovered in a time machine or frozen in a block of ice or whatever.
I never counted the sequels or the TV show. Again, because there can be only one.

Makes me think of the rodent in The Green Mile. I will choose life, but not George Michaels.

I'd like to live forever, but sort of pass away in my sleep billions of years from now just before the sun blows up and swallows the Earth. Unless we've colonized other planets. Then I'd like to keep on going.

I'd like to live forever, but sort of pass away in my sleep billions of years from now just before the sun blows up and swallows the Earth. Unless we've colonized other planets. Then I'd like to keep on going.
Meh. I figure if we're around that long, we'd have figured out how to coloize other Universes. Then I could live forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and so on and so forth.

After the Judgement, thanks.

living forever is so selfish. make room for other people on the planet! i plan to die at age 81.

Live forever huh? 400-500 years would be almost enough for me to learn how to play the violin.

nah, immortality would suck. all your friends and loved ones would keep dying and you'd have to make new friends.... what a pain! plus I'm interested in what "the other side " is like.

Remember that silly movie in 2000."Bicentennial Man." R.Williams got tired of life and loosing his significant others. Death is scarry , maybe living forever is boring? Enjoy it while you have it and prepare yourselves for the losses Robin WIlliams could not .
How I go is no one's business. I believe in euthenasia for all. Maybe when it's time to check out I'll go have some Dutch fudge and enjoy the sins of Amsterdam. Don't want to be a drag for anyone else and most of all myself.
My favorite pet did not have to suffer and neither should anyone else, if that is one's choice.

Living forever will really suck when the machines take over and turn us all into batteries. Then you'd be a battery forever. You'd keep going and going and going...

Nobody can live forever. The real queston is how to die. Taking a motorcycle off a cliff at 180 mph over the speed limit would suit me just fine.

Nobody can live forever. The real queston is how to die. Taking a motorcycle off a cliff at 180 mph over the speed limit would suit me just fine.
What if the speed limit is -179mph? As the old joke goes, when I die I want to die peacefully in my sleep, not screaming like the other 4 people in my car.

I figure dying while sleeping would suck. You only get to die once, so it may as well be fun, and I for one don't want to be so old and/or ill that I'd go to sleep every night not knowing if I'd wake up. Life is only worth living if its enjoyable.

Nobody can live forever. The real queston is how to die. Taking a motorcycle off a cliff at 180 mph over the speed limit would suit me just fine.
Makes the movie Thelma and Louise come to mind. They went with class. Would it have been better if it were a Pink Cadillac.
My best friend died at age 40 of Pulminary Fibrosis. He died with syle and class. TOld jokes up until next to the last day. Had held out hope for a lung transplant. When it turned out impossible, he did not get bitter. Nurses actually cried when Steve died.Never have I seen such a brave soul.
If one has to be noticed at all, I think the best way to go is surrounded by love ones patching up all the crap that one has to endure during one's lifetime.

I figure dying while sleeping would suck. You only get to die once, so it may as well be fun, and I for one don't want to be so old and/or ill that I'd go to sleep every night not knowing if I'd wake up. Life is only worth living if its enjoyable.
How do you know you'll wake up tomorrow after you go to sleep tonight?

On the subject I like what Woddy Allen said (probably not a verbatim quote but the gist of it anyway):

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

The whole meaning of Life would change if it did not have a beginning and an end.

Reincarnation, baby. But that's only because I'm hoping I've got karma on my side. I don't want to come back as a wart on someone's a**.

Hello everyone:

I'm considering immortality, but I think it would definitely get boring - especially near the end.

Anyone have any thoughts?
Are you sure you understand the meaning of the word immortality?

Remember that silly movie in 2000."Bicentennial Man." R.Williams got tired of life and loosing his significant others. Death is scarry , maybe living forever is boring? Enjoy it while you have it and prepare yourselves for the losses Robin WIlliams could not .
How I go is no one's business. I believe in euthenasia for all. Maybe when it's time to check out I'll go have some Dutch fudge and enjoy the sins of Amsterdam. Don't want to be a drag for anyone else and most of all myself.
My favorite pet did not have to suffer and neither should anyone else, if that is one's choice.
Refreshing to see forward thinking people. Being in a place where I almost had to make that decision earlier this year, I'm behind that 1000%

Not only euthuinasia, but assisted euthinasia should be available. One should be able to tell their doctor that they are ready to die and the doctor should be able to perscribe a 'cocktail' for them.

As it stands, if someone as much as hands someone a pill or fills a syringe for them, they're up on a manslaughter charge. That's not right.

Viva Jack Kavorkian!

Refreshing to see forward thinking people. Being in a place where I almost had to make that decision earlier this year, I'm behind that 1000%

Not only euthuinasia, but assisted euthinasia should be available. One should be able to tell their doctor that they are ready to die and the doctor should be able to perscribe a 'cocktail' for them.

As it stands, if someone as much as hands someone a pill or fills a syringe for them, they're up on a manslaughter charge. That's not right.

Viva Jack Kavorkian!


"BRING OUT YER DEAD!"

I plan on living forever...... so far, so good.

As someone once said, "Immortality is considered youth in Asia."

"BRING OUT YER DEAD!"

"But I'm not dead yet!!! Really, I feel fine, I think I'll go for a walk..."

I'm down with the reincarnation idea, but the death thing, eeehhhh, I could leave it. I just dont want to see it coming, maybe one day, I turn around and BAM! i'm at the gates, not knowing what happened, and St. Peter is waiting for me with a beer and he says" hey lodi, what's up, we've been waiting for you. By the way, the bars that way." that's how I would like to have it, if I had any say in the matter......

I'm pretty sure I'm already immortal. However, so far I've only lived 27.5 years so we'll just have to wait and see.

There can be only one!!
http://vampirerpg.free.fr/Rules/Highlander/images/highlander1.jpg

"But I'm not dead yet!!! Really, I feel fine, I think I'll go for a walk..."

"Look, you're not fooling anyone!"


Are you sure you understand the meaning of the word immortality?

It's about time someone noticed that! Sheesh.

It sounds fun, but I'll pass.

Maybe a doubling of my lifespan would be cool though.

I've been going good so far, but nobodies perfect.

Viva Jack Kavorkian!
You don't need Jack Kevorkian, you just need a motorcycle that can hit 180 mph. It's only got to hit it once.

This is coming from a former (please, G-d, former) insomniac. I think that death is like the sleep between lives, if you don't get it, you're just gonna be exhausted at some point. Plus, if you were immortal, think of all the taxes you'd have to pay!

You know, the best cure for insomnia is more sleep.

And I think if I lived forever I could figure out some way to deal with taxes and other annoying things. Plus, I think the financial advantages of living forever would outweigh the disadvantages. I mean, you could go bury a bunch of really common junk in a hole, then sell it as priceless, mint condition artifacts in a thousand years or so. Or, you could just plop a nickel in a savings account. By the time you were REALLY old, that nickel would be worth millions!

How about being immortal, means you have to work in a job you hate forever. Social Security would probably not kick in until year 999? Theres' a reason not to live.

forever? good god no! fabulously? definitely.

If death is the sleep between lives, I must be very very short on the death, since I am possibly as close as you can get to narcoleptic without actually being one. If I am not constantly thinking of stuff, I will fall asleep. Boredom = sleep, and there's nothing I can do to stop it...part of my weirdness...I have to do SOMETHING to keep myself awake. Even if it's fidget with a coin, or think of ways to casue trouble.

....and to make things worse, so far this week I will have pulled 50 hrs of work as soon as the next 20 mins pass. I need sleep.....sweet sweet sleep......any neighbor to mess with that will be hogtied and thrown in the elevator....of course they will have a plate of yummy sesame crunches.

Yo Cat, just rub some Dave's on the ol' sphincter... that'll wake you up! :lol:

I was thinking "Highlander" as well ... and that'd be okay if it came with the Scottish accent and hanging with guys in kilts and swinging around a really cool, shiny sword. But I'm not so cool with the chopping off of the head part ...

As one who has considered there own mortality I think I like the choice of immortality.

I dunno about immortality, but I could definitely do with turning 20 instead of 30. If I didn't like my career path I'd sidle over to the bioengineering side of the hall and build myself a set of carbon fiber knees and ankles, since those are pretty likely to wear out soon.

And some nice hydraulics to replace my tired arms.