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Re: When do you want to die? [Re: A.Russell] #68009
03/28/06 05:43
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as long as i get a wife and possibly have children i can die happily,




Boring.


Living much longer than everyone else would obviously be a great advantage. Drop $5 in a bank account now, shag your brains out with every girl for the next 1000 years, and you'll be rich off the interest, still the same age physically and you can shag for another 1000! When you get bored of having all the money and pussy in the world, you would have plenty of time to do other cool things like fly helicopters or become a rock superstar.


Here's a question for those of you who think forever is too long to live: Would you be so happy about it if it you were going to die in the next thirty seconds? Is there such a thing as a good time to die? It's sort of like asking, when is a good time to catch herpes or for all your teeth to rot out, isn't it?




And don't you think that during all that long time you wouldnt fall in love with "some" girl/boy, "sometime"? It isnt avoidable, and if you do, and he/she dies, I think you would wish to never wished to life forever...


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Re: When do you want to die? [Re: Michael_Schwarz] #68010
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I've fallen in and out of love before. People I loved have died. My pets have died. I've lost friends and been tormented by my enemies. I've suffered embarassment, pain, disease and persecution.

Then I get over it and carry on.

Thank God for single malt whisky.

Michael, when someone you loves dies, perhaps you might feel like you want to die, too. However, I think you would get over it. Try putting it in another perspective, if you died then wouldn't you want the people you love to continue living and be happy?

So yes, I could live with that.

Re: When do you want to die? [Re: Michael_Schwarz] #68011
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And don't you think that during all that long time you wouldnt fall in love with "some" girl/boy, "sometime"? It isnt avoidable, and if you do, and he/she dies, I think you would wish to never wished to life forever...




I think there is no such thing as 'eternal love', so I don't think it would really matter if she would die. What if she just leaves after a while, saying she doesn't love you anymore and she will never come back? In practise it would be the same as when she would die. Since in this theoretical case we would live forever, the love would die out too so to speak, I know some people never come over lost loved onces and some seem to die because of it somehow, so I think those persons would need more time than they have to live to get over it? What if they would live forever, wouldn't it mean they would get over it? Also just as with the fact that life is precious because it does have an end, so is being in love. That would be the only thing that would kinda be negative about being immortal, the value of falling in love might become different, because in time you could find another girl 'sometime' ...

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Re: When do you want to die? [Re: PHeMoX] #68012
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I think there is no such thing as 'eternal love',




I think there is, as long as one of the member is still functioning (alive and sane) - which don't neccessarily falls into the "till death do you part" type love. But i'm talking about the love between a mother and son, a father and daughter, or siblings, or other very close family members. I don't believe that there is anybody in the world, who has ever lost someone very close, would ever say that they no longer love that member, no matter how long time has passed.

And for a human to live for a thousand years, which means that he/she will be in contact with numerous people who will die during the thousand year span. It would a heavy burden to know that you will live to see nearly all your love ones die before you.

But hell, I still wouldn't mind trying it out.


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Re: When do you want to die? [Re: PennyWise] #68013
03/30/06 10:33
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Or even worse, you're sitting in a nursery waiting to die (because you decided to live 100 years) while your loved ones are still young (because they opted for 100,000 years).

Interestingly we have now 3 peaks in the poll: Natural life span, 500 years, and eternal life. 500 years would be the life span of a human if only his brain would age, but not his body.

Unfortunately most biologists think that immortality won't be available before 2100, so this poll is just theory - at least for us.

Re: When do you want to die? [Re: jcl] #68014
03/30/06 23:47
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I would like to know wether there is a relationship between how old one is and how long he wants to live!

Is it possible to make such a "relational" poll?

My theory: the older persons choose more natural lifespan, the younger persons choose the eternal life.

Reasons: the elder are more bored about life, they are less afraid of the death, they feel more of the burdon of their responsibilities, they experienced the limits of their perspectives, and they don't expect to experience any essential new thing.

Re: When do you want to die? [Re: Pappenheimer] #68015
03/31/06 09:22
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This would be indeed interesting, but the poll software does not allow relating data. Besides, we don't have many people of age 45+ on the forum.

My guess would be that it won't depend much on the age, but on the lifestyle. If you live an interesting life, you'd want more of it. But if not much is happening in your life, you'd look forward to the end.

Re: When do you want to die? [Re: jcl] #68016
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I've heard from doctors that the people most affraid of death are Catholic Nuns.

Whoops, that was off topic.

That would certainly be a reason JCL. You notice how so many rich and famous people are apt to try and hang in there as long as possible. The Queen Mother is a good example.

Not just that though. You can see from the replies that a lot of people are quite religious about this subject. Also, there are people who think they'll be overwhelmed with sorrow at their long life experience. I asked one of my students, who is a budhist, this question. She said it doesn't matter to her when she dies as she won't really be dead, but somewhere else.


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Re: When do you want to die? [Re: A.Russell] #68017
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Re: When do you want to die? [Re: ello] #68018
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Yeah, makes you wonder what those nuns get up to, doesn't it?

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