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I'll start off with one, Being upset about a breakup that happened hundreds of years ago.

Edit 1:

  • Heath death of the universe, Death of the sun, etc, does not count. I feel like focusing on this is an overused point.

Edit 2:

  • Loneliness does not count. I feel like we all know immortality means you'll miss people and lose them.
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[-] mobiuscoffee@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

One of my books features an immortal protagonist and I've as such thought about this quite a bit. More than the answers already provided here, what I found interesting as a writer was the balance I needed to find between making an immortal detached from mortal values while still being engaging to mortal readers.

Said as a pithy question, if you can outlive everyone's decisions and mistakes, what would it take to make you do anything at all?

[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I suppose it depends on the rules of this specfic immortality. As someone who lives with chronic pain that literally never feels physically comfortable in any position, immortality sounds like a cruel joke. Not that I'm suicidal or eager to die, but the fact that it would progressively get worse and worse without any sort of end is.... horrorific.

[-] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Loneliness. I think being immortal would show someone what true Loneliness is

[-] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

I'll say no one can truly know. Unless you are yourself immortal

[-] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago
[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

i think that experiencing all the things & people i care about would be the worst of it.

either that or seeing us repeat history over and over again as a society complete with all of the indifferent cruelties it entails and studying it, but ignoring it anyways

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Does yer dick still work when you’re like 150?

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[-] ShadowRam@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

Read this on the largest number every used in a mathematical proof.

Then ask yourself, if you think you could handle this number in microseconds let alone an eternity

https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html

[-] 0_0j@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

LoL investing and compounding! I literally have all the time in the world.

[-] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

If it's just you being immortal, loss of all family, and friends, and loss of new friends, rinse repeat forever. Eventualdieyoull watch society collapse and regrow (possibly), and the planet will die. Immortality is forever after all. Then you're left alone on a deserted dead planet. Electronics you have will eventually break and fade away to time. The sun will grow and die off, and it'll burn because you're immortal but still stuck on a planet that'll get enveloped, eventually. Living forever would be terrible unless it was forever until you died of something physical, just not age and illness.

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