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This is from Echos orginal post but since it was closed I thought I would keep it going a bit more..

I dont know how many of you believe in immortality; if there is any way of achieving it and why a certain creature would be chosen... however, if given the option of mortal life and immortality, would you take it, or prefer to have a normal life-span and live for today?
~Echo~

Ok some things that were brought up on last post.

Daermon:
I believe the movie SFW put it best in saying, "i'd like to live forever....but only for a while."

DeathIsBecoming- My dear, that’s exactly what I wanted to bring up too ;-) would immortality mean you COULDN’T die, or more importantly, would you be able to kill yourself if you decided you no longer wanted to be immortal? This you can see is straight from the other post.. :)

BoundSin:
I would like it to see how this world turn out but at the same to alot of thime the world annoys the hell of me so that a double edge sword there alos I have people I care about and don't want to see them all die.

Echo:
Well, if you had such longevity of life, then couldn't you use your knowledge and experience to change those things that 'annoy the Hell' out of you?

Ok I think I got the most important parts here from other post..
If not I'm sorry.. you can retell them here....

With immortal life, I find that there would be less fear... and lets face it, we all like to be scared sometimes, to know that death could be lurking as near as that closest closet or underneath the bed.

what if you knew you could do good rather than just being alive. Your right I think keeping us scared of death keeps us "right" We don't yet want to die or we would have done killed ourselves. But what if you didn't know that you were immortal.. you were never told.. you aged normally but when you thought that you were at the right age to die.. then you don't fear it anymore and wish it to come swiftly.. then you find that you will be forever here... Then what???

In the case of immortality, I rather -not- have it.

In many cases-- at least for myself-- I feel there would be -far- less of a driving force to continue on. To create, to inspire, to move forward as we have for decades-- why stop the clock?

Of course, this is only an opinion.

*laughs* Perfectly alright.

Niles, in a way, I think is afraid of dying. If there -is- truth to zombification, he wants it done. He wants to protect me forever, he says.

I suppose in that case, it would be between my Lover and I. If I were to expire, I would at least want a token of myself to live forever-- having children being my biggest 'thing' right now.

That, and my body seems to be giving me little... 'hints,' as it were.

If there is such a thing as immortallity then we all think we want it. But in reality we cant stand the thought of existing forever, hiding in the shadows. We get the wrong impression of immorallity from boks, films and comics. But would you really want to live forever?

I have no doubts about this option at all in my mind. the answer i give is a simple (in my eyes) YES, i would truly love the chance to be able to live forever. I believe that life really is too short and by the time you learn from your mistakes, find a new talent you never knew you had and discover new worlds. then your life would be close to the end.. i would love to stay at the age i'm at now, forever, i have no doubts about this. None.

Yey! My thread lives on ::grins::

your thread does live on dear.

i think honestly immortality could cause more problems. if you were immortal you'd probably get captured and experimented on, you'd have to live in the jungle just to get away from governments trying to learn your secrets...

I think i have seen every episode a Ray Mere's so i can survive anywhere.... But seriously.. i would truly love to be immortal.

i agree Echo i just love this thread

for people that say you would lose your driving force to do things. I say that is a matter of the individual. For me personaly it would probably increase my driving force because i would know for sure that they could have time so i would devote to it. with my motal life i find that i often find no will to do things because I won't have to time actually go anywhere with it so I just stop before I begin sometimes.

I think if I could be immortal I would want at least one way to die because living forever might be too much for me!!!

we shall all live on by the things we have done good or bad..but the thought of being here forever scares the crap out of me.i have already seen to much and done even more...

I wouldn't mind being immortal cause I want to see what the world would look like in 1000 years

I do think Gorey has a point about immortality in a minority or singular person would result in having to keep a VERY big secret from everyone in order to actually LVIE A LIFE.

Consider the following;

"We project the past onto our future and do not actually experience the present. FLORIS TORTLESINI

Now imagine, with that much future ahead of you, how the quality of your present would be? A tenuous link fair enough, but still another of teh many factors to be taken into consideration...

when it comes to immortal life you have one things youll absoulty hate more than anything.... and thats death. not death of you however but death of your family and friends and then youll eventually jus wanna give it up but you cant.... so therefore death is the answer, but liveing longer is better thought out since you do eventually die, immortal is good when you have someone to share it with...

I firmly believe we are immortal, just, not this physical shell. Or the next shell. Our essence.. the very core of each individual, the spark of energy that truly is 'you' ~ is immortal.

*forget about your friends family, they will die anyhow
*There is not enough time to do everything that a human desires, in the short time we have on this earth.
*Do you want to grow old and your body starting to fall to pieces?
*why not stay the smae age and be fit and well for the rest of your life

I was watching a program topnight about the 7 wonders of the world, there's not a chance in hell that i'm going to be able to see all these places! I will if i can live forever.. and the many more wonders to come!
(i rest my case, bring on the defence)

good one dhampir &heart;

i must beg to differ though.

Upon having lost loved ones over and over an individuals emotions become drained and stripped. Human interactions will slowly become more and more brittle until there is no more. What kind of life would it be without the companionship of others? There comes a point where you can not take the loss of another loved one. Immortality is very promising, but unfortunately, no man is his own island.

As for living for a finite amount of time, it only makes us appreciate our time here so much more.

Dhampir
Suppose the body that becomes your immortality body in the "future" is a broken down, over worked, over weight body would you still take immortalilty? Most people see themselfs immotal in a very tuned body, that has sexual appear, and mysterious looking. In other words a movie body..

Woudl your body evolve over the millions of years that people evolved in, or would we you end up being an 'ancient' that people looked down on?

right now i think i want to be immortal to become wise and help the world with ts problems.

i'm still wondering about the concept of the brain running out of space for living. would you eventually know the limits of your knowledge, or when you get to the end of the space, will you just collapse and not get up?

these questions can't be answered. but would definatly make me wonder if becoming immortal would be worth it.

Gorey, we only currently use 10% of our brains anyway. Imagine if we used 20%!? Imagine the possiblities of all that knowledge...

i once wrote a story whereby a human used 20% of his brain and could do extra things.

i think we actively only use 10% as our conscious. the other 90% might be running the rest of the body?

even still. it can't store things forever can it?

I would love to live forever but not if age still affected me as it normally does. If i could stay 25 forever then i might do. But i think even immortality for me would have to come to an end eventually.

Can you proove it exists, immortallity?