Ask Lemmy

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.

No plans. I die like a real man.

Who wants. To live. Forever?

I don't even think I wanna wake up tomorrow.

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 won't

I'll try to eat healthy and exercise, but besides that I'm not planning on doing anything.

Why would anyone want this?

I don't intend to live forever, that sounds rough as hell.

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.

If eternity is all time, and all the time I have is 80 or so years (hopefully), then that is eternity, for me. I'll already live "forever".

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

You only die when the last person forgets your name. So I'm going to be remembered forever, all books in history should have a dedicated page about me.

Return question: If you do have a plan to live forever, do you have a plan B how to end it, when (not if) it becomes unbearable?
Or when (not if) you've lost the last shard of your sanity?

Thanks to denial, I'm immortal!

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 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.

The sheer anger and hatred of wanting to see certain, unnamed people(s) die before I do. Let the rage keep me going in order to hopefully outlive some people. Thankfully a lot of those people are either currently either middle aged to elderly or just older than me.

But that's if nuclear war doesn't happen because I'm in an area that will hopefully be wiped off the map and I'll hopefully just be dust.

I'm supposed to have a plan for this?

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

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.

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.

Walking more.

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.

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

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:

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.

I'm just gonna wing it!

i dont, i let my dead body become fertilzer to the plants

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.

No plan
Hope someone else figures it out before I'm too old to make it worthwhile

Already died once. The second time will be fine.