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Yes.
Imagine the collections I would make!
All that art...all that music...I would be just like Trazyn the Infinite, except 10% more insane from the loneliness.

Immortality sounds boring. No deal.

 Gitkikka wrote:
Immortality sounds boring. No deal.

I'm, sure it would be interesting. For at least a couple centuries.

 infinite_array wrote:
I have to ask - did the person who offered me the immortality have it in the first place? Can it then be passed on?

If so, then hell yes - it gives me all the time in the world for the Chosen One to be born, and then pass on the immortality to him/her.

To answer that its open to interpretations, I like riddles, and this is a riddle. Can you find the answer to the riddle? The Riddle has no right answer, it is what ever you think it is.

And no you cannot pass it. You will forever be alone, your immortal genes stick to you and no one else.

Its really an open ended question my own thoughts I really don't want to share because my thoughts on this matter are quite offensive to a large amount of teenagers my age. Most kids my age see death as kind of the end all be all. I see it more as the next journey. Here are my thoughts on humanity. Notice I am writer who has used two immortal characters in their stories, and I recently read a few very interesting books. I plan on asking kids of my age the same question. I know what to expect from some though.

 Easy E wrote:
Only if I get a sweet theme song by Queen and the chance to battle other immortals to cut off their heads and gain the power of the Quickening.

Edit: I'm also not convinced Madness is by default "a bad thing".

Indeed, after a few millienia I'd just change my name to Sheogorath. And then mad fun begins

Well I personnaly look it from this viewpoint: Life is a piece of time in which I can complete any achievement I want, say family, love, friendship, etc. But with immortality and the missing death, I do not have that time restriction which would mean, I could achieve ANYTHING.
Now sounds good doesnt it?
There comes a point which has been mentioned a few times in this thread: The achievements are not eternal! I would have to see my family crumble to dust and my love die. My greatest inventions would be forgotten as the time passes.
Achieving everything only to see it crumble is a torture no being could survive and hope to preserve its sanity, being immortal or not.

The question becomes, do I age physically?

Would my body become old and frail? I'm assuming if I regenerated from wounds, body wear and tear would be fixed as these are "wounds". So a few things might happen. I would never age past my "prime" leaving me somewhere between 24 and 35. At that age, it would be fairly simple to spend a few centuries traveling town to town taking over a new identity once every 50 to 75 years. There are too many people in the world for someone to recognize you and go, "Uncle bob? Is that you?" It would give you plenty of chances to see the world, explore all of it's wonders. I could see spending a lifetime or so in each country of the world, hoping for the day where we finally take to the stars. Once we do this, away we go! The other thing about the "fixing of my body" is that it could in theory burn away things that prevent you from being the best you that you can achieve. This means no illness, no loss of limb or functionality, and maybe even a new chiseled physique. So getting the ladies wouldn't be too hard to do based on pure looks, and as someone that has seen centuries of life, you would be very well learned.

So there is that. One also has to remember that as you age, time seems to speed up. days, months, years, go faster simply because you've experienced them more. After a thousand years or so, a century won't seem like much, a month, a day, a year... all small potatoes. I think that is what could giving living forever it's advantage. Eventually time would move at such a pace that you would be experiencing millenia as though they were days.

I wouldn't mind being immortal and invincible. I might actually find some painting time.

 LordofHats wrote:

 Gitkikka wrote:
Immortality sounds boring. No deal.

I'm, sure it would be interesting. For at least a couple centuries.

Considering you're in it for the long haul, the interest of a few centuries would be as nothing to you.

 Gitkikka wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:

 Gitkikka wrote:
Immortality sounds boring. No deal.

I'm, sure it would be interesting. For at least a couple centuries.

Considering you're in it for the long haul, the interest of a few centuries would be as nothing to you.

It would to start with...
Though I have a poor memory so i'll likely find myself endlessly entertained...

 purplefood wrote:

 Gitkikka wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:

 Gitkikka wrote:
Immortality sounds boring. No deal.

I'm, sure it would be interesting. For at least a couple centuries.

Considering you're in it for the long haul, the interest of a few centuries would be as nothing to you.

It would to start with...
Though I have a poor memory so i'll likely find myself endlessly entertained...

Think of all the booze you could drink purps! You'd never have to worry about liver damage, or alcohol poisoning!

 Alfndrate wrote:

 purplefood wrote:

 Gitkikka wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:

 Gitkikka wrote:
Immortality sounds boring. No deal.

I'm, sure it would be interesting. For at least a couple centuries.

Considering you're in it for the long haul, the interest of a few centuries would be as nothing to you.

It would to start with...
Though I have a poor memory so i'll likely find myself endlessly entertained...

Think of all the booze you could drink purps! You'd never have to worry about liver damage, or alcohol poisoning!

Oh woah...
You could have some legendary nights out...

 SilverMK2 wrote:
The super healing is interesting - would it stop you being augmented with machines, implants or genetic modifications?

This could be a deal-breaker for me, I don't think I could watch humanity progress to a post-human state and be left behind. If I was allowed to become cybernetic or merge my conciousness with a computer then it's all good.

I think I'd still say yes though if it came down to it, I really want to see what happens with us next, and what an ice age looks like in person.

 purplefood wrote:
Oh woah...
You could have some legendary nights out...

I know! they could last decades lol

 purplefood wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:

 purplefood wrote:

 Gitkikka wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:

 Gitkikka wrote:
Immortality sounds boring. No deal.

I'm, sure it would be interesting. For at least a couple centuries.

Considering you're in it for the long haul, the interest of a few centuries would be as nothing to you.

It would to start with...
Though I have a poor memory so i'll likely find myself endlessly entertained...

Think of all the booze you could drink purps! You'd never have to worry about liver damage, or alcohol poisoning!

Oh woah...
You could have some legendary nights out...

You live long enough to make sure no one ever forgot too

 tyrant of loserville wrote:
Id ask if he wanted to die and if he is trying to get rid of his immortality. If that was his only salvation I would take it even knowing I could not do the same.

What would happen if I went comatose or hibernation along the lines of millions of years? Would the rules stop the coma or prolonged sleep? When the universe compresses back to zero what happens to my body and consciousness?

The universe is expanding at an increasing rate, it cannot re-compress via the current understanding of physics. It will simply continue to expand until the space between matter is so vast that there is literally no free energy left and the universes temperature reaches a flat average. It'll suck, and you, as the undestroyable one, will sit there floating in an endless expanse of dark vacuum.

I have to join the nay-sayers here and say, that immortality, such as you have laid it out, would be miserable. No thanks.

Something interesting to find out would be the age ranges Or life experiences of those who favor immortality and those who wouldn't want it.
For myself, I've been around long enough to see friends and family die in all manner of ways and really wouldn't want an eternity of that.

Relapse wrote:
Something interesting to find out would be the age ranges Or life experiences of those who favor immortality and those who wouldn't want it.
For myself, I've been around long enough to see friends and family die in all manner of ways and really wouldn't want an eternity of that.

I suspect you would get over it, eventually. Much as you get over a group of friends that you have since moved away from. There are always more, platonic and otherwise, fish in the sea.

Well, it'd be interesting to see what I can do for humanity, given time and accumulating ressources over the time.

My real question is, will my immortality be put under the test after I vat-create 20 genetically engeneered sons?

 Dark wrote:
Well, it'd be interesting to see what I can do for humanity, given time and accumulating ressources over the time.

My real question is, will my immortality be put under the test after I vat-create 20 genetically engeneered sons?

Sorry sir, move along there are only 18 genetically engineered sons anything else is of course...

Hey, I never claimed to be The Allfather, that'd be a true heresy

The population genetics implications of me being able to insert my genetic code into mankind's genepool that often over time are defintely pretty interesting!

I think I'd say yes. I would want to see what happens, I don't want to die, and I think I could deal with the side effects, they wouldn't be that much worse than aging and decaying and dying anyway.

I'd accept it in a heartbeat.

 Easy E wrote:
Only if I get a sweet theme song by Queen and the chance to battle other immortals to cut off their heads and gain the power of the Quickening.

Edit: I'm also not convinced Madness is by default "a bad thing".

Wins the thread!




Not Easy E, but Freddie Mercury.

thakabalpuphorsefishguy wrote:
The universe is expanding at an increasing rate, it cannot re-compress via the current understanding of physics. It will simply continue to expand until the space between matter is so vast that there is literally no free energy left and the universes temperature reaches a flat average. It'll suck, and you, as the undestroyable one, will sit there floating in an endless expanse of dark vacuum.

Highlighted the important part. Your continued existence in the heat death of the universe violates the laws of physics, so the laws of physics have to change to grant you immortality.

 Peregrine wrote:

Highlighted the important part. Your continued existence in the heat death of the universe violates the laws of physics, so the laws of physics have to change to grant you immortality.

Who assumed a heat death of the Universe (and you must assume it)? Certainly not I, nor the person you quoted. That only leaves everyone else, and you; but only one of those sets is relevant here.

 dogma wrote:
Who assumed a heat death of the Universe (and you must assume it)? Certainly not I, nor the person you quoted. That only leaves everyone else, and you; but only one of those sets is relevant here.

Err, what? You do realize that the person I quoted described the heat death of the universe even if they didn't use the words "heat death" in the process, right?

I'd call myself "the face of Bo" and be friends with a regenerating time traveller.

 Da Boss wrote:
The population genetics implications of me being able to insert my genetic code into mankind's genepool that often over time are defintely pretty interesting!

That's an interesting way to put getting laid, does that line pretty well?

 Peregrine wrote:

Err, what? You do realize that the person I quoted described the heat death of the universe even if they didn't use the words "heat death" in the process, right?

Heat death paradox.

 dogma wrote:
Heat death paradox.

That doesn't even make any sense as a reply. Did you just throw some random words together to avoid admitting that you were wrong?