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Im half and half to it. I would love to be immortal but only if i could bring who i loved with me. On the contrary i dont think i could live and watch everyone i loved die knowing i would never be with them again because i would not die.

I believe that death is an expansion of conciousness. If you asked a fetus if it wished to be birthed, it is likely that it would prefer to remain. However I should not like to die prematurely. There are persons that will have stunted developement no matter how long they live, but birth/death is preferable to stagnation.

I would not wish such things apon anyone.

It would be interesting and fun for a few centuries but, then I'd get bored and tired of losing those I loved. I don't think immortality is worth it.

Many topics have come up on this " a choice" live forever or die. People in some instantace would choose the living forever, yet not knowing all the ramafications of this.

A curse in others t live and see death of loved ones and of life moving on. Tpo hide and fake deaths so others would not suspect you with immortality.

Something we all would look at hard if presented this....

I would choose immortality, mainly because I wanna squeeze as much out of this world as possible. Ideally remain a vampyre and be immortal would be ideal. I just feel I am never gonna be ready to check out so why not stay forever and not have to ever be ready to check out. Death is so overrated ^^.

It's for the chosen few.. What are you willing to do to get it?

I wouldn't want to live forever, the pain of watching those you love pass on and eventually outliving all of your family would be unbearable.

I wouldn't want to live forever, because I think it's the brevity and fragility of life that gives it meaning and a sense of beauty.

The meaning of life is that it stops.
- Kafka

I personally believe that immortality is a fool's dream. Why live forever when those around you might not? It's damning yourself to a miserable existence- aging or not. Those you care about will die around you and you will never be able to join them if your life is indeed eternal.

Ahhh..to be immortal is beautiful. Every 40 years, we move into a different town. we mingle with the local and live like them. And no, we don't bite our lovers so they can be with us.
Seee, and you tough that immortal people did not exist. Mm...

That is an interesting question. It would be a choice of living forever, which has always been the secret wish of every person..... and leaving behind everything and everyone you love. I'm not sure, but I would probably take it.

Immortality is almost everyone's desire,most people fear death and they try to hold on to life as long as they can,i don't fear death,anyway immortality is unnatural but useful and with it you can watch the world evolve and keep humanity in check,so yeah i would choose it.

You people with your melodramatic ways of looking at something like this. Why cannot you actually enjoy a bit of immortality then shun part of it away? The things you would see, the places you would go that few would dare travel out of fear, stress, money etc.

The wars that would rage around you, the climate changes over the decades and perhaps centuries. The people you would encounter...Spare me the anecdote of death here.

Immortality as seen through the eyes of the imaginative is conveniently differan from the eyes of the perceptive. Melecholy is one things, but over visualization takes on a differant viewpoint and keeps it a bit on the depressive side. Try to shy away from that and actually think of the fun, adventurous things that time would allow the traveler.

Immortality...Bring it on!

We would assume that many on these sites would infact choose immortality over death. The scare tatics of the unknown.

Yet I percieve that givien the choice we would take immortality, after pondering on ramafications of what it holds. yet if not would this change or peerception and we would curse others for giving us a curse.

Immortality is a bit to much, almost godlike, but few hundreds years wouldnt be bad, i mean when you only get the time to enjoy life and gather some money is when you are a bit old..

I'm sure living forever would be great at first. Doing whatever you want for as long as you wanted. But in the end, you'll be alone and sad because of what you have lost. I'd rather die than live forever. I just hope my death is meaningful.

Sometimes I think that the ways of the "karma" builder are in good nature. Such as what you do in life takes its toll on what you become after you pass over.

Now, if this was the case then no wonder why we have so many flies on dung heaps. Anywho, I look at it as not what I have done within this life, but the body that I will be leaving behind for either a less then important taller version, or my gender that I got used to being...Left behind.

This may be what the fear tactic may be about in a subtly differant perspective.

To be given a choice between Immortality and Mortality. I do not see the difference. What really makes one Immortal? Living? What is living really, but a slow march towards a short term goal. A name? How many names will be remembered throughout time untill there is no left to remember them? Are they Immortal? Is one who see the changes through the ages really living if no one knows who they are? Time marches on with or without anyone. Mortal or Immortal? It becomes a question of Known or Unknown?

I would do it. I think it would be cool to be able to see the world and how things change over time. It would just be nice to live and experience things. If I was a vampyre I would give my lover the choice. If the love is real then they'd want to be with you.

I think the concept of seeing things change over time is greatly romanticized. It is the nature of man to forget the bad things in their past... which is why peopel say "the good old days." In reality the good old days were just as shitty as the current days, you just remember them differently, a little detatched, like reading a book.

So really if you are trading physical immortality for spiritual immortality, Well, I'd just rather read a good book.

If you had the chance to live forever, would you choose to and what would you do with your life? I would honestly love to live forever. To watch life as it changes. To see decisions that we have made now, how they would affect our future. I would spend all time watching, learning, interviening at times.

How would it change, if you were inmortal? My life would change as if I were being set free. Right now I try to live life to the fullest. I try to make sure I do everything I want to. But that is wearing on my still young body. If I were immortal, yes there would be boring times, but I would no longer be concerned about dying the next day and not seeing my beloved England (I have always wanted to visit). I could slow down and take my time.

Also if you were an immortal and a vampyre, would you give your lover (if you had one), no choice and bite them so you'd have someone to be with in the hereafter? No, I would give them the option. However, even though I would turn them ( at their request) does not mean they must stay with me. It is their life, they may live it as they see fit.

Any chance you think you'd regret your choice to be immortal? There is always that chance. But that is like asking if you regretted eating the shrimp last night that gave you heartburn. Yes, you did, but would you take it back...no, you wouldn't. why you ask? Because you made the decision and it tasted good. Same thing with the immortal part, yes, you may at one point regret it. But living in regret is not living.

Any chance you'd choose to not be immortal and if so, why would you choose not to be? I wouldn't, history is my favourite subject. To be allowed to watch it and be there for so many centuries would be amazing and a blessing in itself.


But, naturally, there are no such things as immortals. They exist in our minds, hearts, and dreams. If there were such things, wouldn't since have come across even one yet?

Then again, some questions are better left unanswered...

I would live forever. Loved ones pass, new loves begin. In an eternity, some would be given a choice, and some would not.

Immortality would be in fact great for awhile, but like most things there are side effects to decisions we make in our lives travel. And this would in fact holds some consequences.

A decision we all must look at if such a thing could truly exist, vampiric or the fountain of youth version.

Would I choose to be immortal? In a heartbeat. The chance to live forever, to see the world change, history be made......absolutely. I've had enough loss in my life that, while it is hard to lose those you love and sometimes it's a loss you will never get over, life goes on and we need to move forward with it. What would I do with my immortality? I honestly don't know.......savor every day.....try to make life for others better, I am a very giving soul, do my part to sustain this earth. Treasure the gift I was given to do what is right. I would take a lover with me, if that is what they wished. I am also a very passionate and loyal soul, so I would want him with me forever. I would not think twice about becoming immortal, I would never look back. I've thought long and hard about this question......and for me, there is absolutely no question that I would do it. I love life.........there's no place i'd rather be than right here forever.

Most things have it's pros and cons. If you believe in rebirth of the soul, then immortality already exists for those who believes in such. Immortality doesn't neccessarily equal vampiric does it? But since the question falls into the topic of vampiric immortals...would i want to live as one or die....
::thinks hard::
I suppose i would chose to be one yes. It's not a guarantee that you wouldn't die though in the end ;)

I would be more willing to be reincarnated. I think we learn so many lessons in life and being mortal has many lessons in itself. It teaches us appreciation for things especially. We also learn how to treat people better, as in when someone dies and we have regrets.

If i were given the chance to be immortal i would bite all my family and friends and my one true loved so that we can see the world together, and everyone would be cured of disease.

True as long as we have someone to walk with us in life. Yet like many relationships of regular society what happens when the relationship turns sour and paths do split. do we venture to find another mate and turn them. also what happens with the previous relationship and their choices.

Anything that can go wrong will- remember this statement and it seems to come so abundant in our lifes.

Pshh i would want to live alone, each one their life, friends and family can die cause naturally in time they will anyways me being immortal or not ,and i will be younger than them when they do, so everyone will die eventually ..but one always find a group of people that you can grasp upon and count as family and thats what matters if immortality be the case..

Revenous, you have showed another flip side to the life of immortality, the life of a loner and that to grasp the friends that surround you to consider them family. We all if possible could gain immortality would have decisions every day of our life to assume.

Great post, Revenous!

id only choose to be immortal if i could take a chosen loved one to join immortality with me. but i wouldnt like to have to lose all my other loved ones.

I would choose to not be immortal. For one thing, watching everyone in your family die and being alone would not be that great. Also, I figure if you have a long life and you live it to the fullest, you will see all you need to and living forever would just be boring. If I did live forever and was a vampire, I would probably not make my lover live forever unless they really knew what they were getting into and really wanted it. That could either being giving someone a gift or a curse.

If you had the chance to live forever, would you choose to and what would you do with your life?

*** I absolutely would choose to live forever if given the chance. What would I do? I've stated everywhere that if given the chance, I would absolutely use immortality as a chance to learn. I think it would be fun to give (just about) everything a chance. I could learn a million different things, try a million different things. I'd have the chance to travel to new places, meet new people, and gain a better perspective of others. ***

How would it change, if you were inmortal?

*** I'm sorry, but I don't think I'm getting this one. How would what change? ***

Also if you were an immortal and a vampyre, would you give your lover (if you had one), no choice and bite them so you'd have someone to be with in the hereafter?

*** I can't see that I could really consider someone my lover (which in my personal opinion means that I love at least something about this person, in addition to enjoying sex with him) if I forced them to become like me. I value independence and individuality. Immortality should not be forced on anyone, especially a loved one. That seems just so selfish. Part of immortality, to me, is learning to accept that (almost) all things come to an end, so if your lover doesn't choose to become immortal also then you should just enjoy the time you have with that person. ***

Any chance you think you'd regret your choice to be immortal?

*** As I said elsewhere, I regret no choices that I've made. There are so many things that I want to do with my life and I doubt I'll be able to get them done in just this one life so, as an immortal, I believe I would always be busy. ***

Any chance you'd choose to not be immortal and if so, why would you choose not to be?

*** I really don't see myself not jumping on this chance. ***

As a side note, many people here state they would not want to be immortal because it would mean losing all those they love. To those, I address the following:

We all lose those we love at some point or other. As children, we have to watch our parents die. Some parents have to deal with the loss of their children. We lose our friends and family to drugs, drinking, disease, and of course, old age. People die. We are always losing those we love. At times it is through death, at times it is through changes in our relationships. Because it happens to us as we are mortal, I don't feel it should be a deciding factor if given the chance to become immortal.

If i could live forever, I would study a lot and help the world. I would also choose one nice partner that was okay with me biting him and he would be my partner for eternity.

I would love to live forever, and so would many on here. The choice to go on living and watch loved ones perish, would be hard, yet it would in some instances feel like losing your child. hard, but to gain knowledge, watch the world evolve, history being made. Who would not want to take the immortality.

Humans who fear death would have less to worry about, unless someone drives a stake through their heart.

Immortality is an interesting prospect. If you could be with your beloved and share all the amazing thing the world holds. Then it wouldn't be so bad. And will time comes the growth of wealth wihch makes it easier to survive. But to be alone may be more that one could bear i would think.

I would stay away from civilization in fear of being discovered as an immortal vampire or what not. I would turn my lover.

I'd take immortality because i would love to see what I could accomplish if given all the time in the world. I love to learn and study everything I possibly can.

If I had a chance to live forever I would take it.

My life would change because of the fact that if I could live forever that would make me an immortal ^ ^ I would have no boundries.

I wouldn't 'bite' I would feast! Would I want a lover, no I don't think I would. Being immortal I would most probably take, due to ego caused by my immortality.

I would be the richest and wisest man alive...all those years...all that knowledge.

That's if time yields wisdom and not just knowledge and wealth.

i would chose immortality to expand my learning of all langauges and travel to all places to be found. i would read every book i found and who knows in time i might actually be able to spell correctly LOL i would give my loved ones the choice to have the same gift as me i would not force it on them and live all eternity with that resentment. the only possable draw back i can see to living forever would be if i should get careless and get caught murdering someone then i would spend many life sentances behind bars praying for death to release me from that hell.

The choice it not ours to make, it has already been made, whether our immortality is based on the memories that other have of us, reincarnation, DNA transfer, or spiritual life. We are immortal and the lives we live continue to affect lives of the future.

that's true as I believe we never truly die but are reincarnated/recycled, so yes Doru you're correct

If it is meant to be it is meant to be.


You don't just get handed a choice. If offered it is something very rare, and something very painful. After awhile if u don't keep you emotions in use, or check. You can go crazy, or become emotionless. Life and death don't bother you one bit. Most people think it is a blessing, but there are a few who know that it is actually a curse. But even then there is a way to die, it is just all most impossible that is all.

Have fun today and every other day enjoy life as much as you can.

i would chose to live forever as far as my other half the decision would have to be hers

"There comes a time for imortal vampires that the idea of eternity becomes momentarily- unbearable"

I'm not sure how to answer this. For years I thought of this, actually. But eternal life really what I want?

I want to know what other things are out there....

So, I guess my answer would be a no. But, In my late teens I might find myself to be imortal. (born a vamp)
If I had the choice to live for 700 years, I would want that. I would want to see change, and except it.

In the future, maybe, I will know my answer.

Could be very interesting if you enjoy life. Start again as another, live another place as far away as what you started..Has its possibilities. A lover forever with me-NO WAY I want to sample it all. For no fear of death, sickness. Have strength and power I would not have a a mortal. Learn , travel and hide at times. Yes I would

Just in my short extended lifetime I have seen so much death... several best friends, my parents, even nephews and nieces have gone before me. While this has affected me deeply, I tend to move on and make new friends. I have always thought about the future and not lingered in the past (something we can never change) and I have always been a busy, active, and inquisitive person who never has enough time to perfect my self and enjoy life. I did not choose immortality, it was pretty much thrust upon me, but I would never push someone into this life.
I do know that life requires friends to make it all worth it.... Who wants to go to Disneyland by themselves?

If that were true exmortal....i feel a person that thrust such a fate apon a person without so much as asking you would be very wrong of them to do. It should be treated as a divine gift not something given to just anyone. However perhaps this person felt or sensed something about you that brought this change. Not sure the reasoning behind it. Perhaps if such immortals did live such a long time felt changing a person would only keep them from feeling alone in the world by doing so. I often wonder if such beings have a limitation lifespan and choose to 'sire' or whatever you wish to define it as, would give one such a fate so that the gift carries onward through someone else....

I would welcome it with open arms , if it were possible, physical immortality that is. The fact that loved ones will die all around you , and you will have to deal with it throughout the centries , makes no matter to me. Loved ones do die all around us now. I have become acustom to it , especially the older I get. I can only imagin I will continue to get numb to it. Do not get me wrong , I can feel . But death is something that seems to be around the corner all the time. It just depends on each individuals ability to accept. Some can , some cannot, others just cope , still others would go crazy.

Now , outside of that fantasy world of being physically immortal. All things eventually DO come to an end, inculding this planet. I am pretty sure if the earth was destroyed, anyone who was physically immortal would cease to exsist as well.

I would choose to be immortal. I would give my boyfriend/husband a choice if they wanted to be immortal or not. I wouldnt force it on them.

To be immortal would be to damn my self to feeling the pains of watching my loved ones die for eternity that would be something that i just could not do. for me death is not to be fear for death is but the next part of our life. in my eyes i feel that when faced with the grim reaper and one should do nothing but smile and let the world know that you did not go in to that void of what ever you wish to call it with out making your voice heard one last time before you fade in to that void. so i guess what i am saying is that one should not fear death but die with honor to know that the things in your life will be remembered but some one, either it be your family or your friends and in doing so then and only then will your truly be immortal for the soul and body may day and rot away but the actions and the deeds that one did in there life time can never be forgotten, but that is only my view on the matter.

I'd take it, but I better start putting more into my 401k.

If you had the chance to live forever, would you choose to and what would you do with your life?

Yes I would and I believe I would do whatever I wanted to and be whoever I chose to be. I would live in the moment for as long as I chose to do so.

How would it change, if you were immortal?

I'm sure there would be sadness as I watch all those close to me grow old and die, but I believe that dealing with that would grow a little easier as time passed. They would never leave my memories and they would always be in my heart.

Also if you were an immortal and a vampire, would you give your lover (if you had one), no choice and bite them so you'd have someone to be with in the hereafter?

I would definitely give her the choice and knowing her as I do, she would accept it.

Any chance you think you'd regret your choice to be immortal? Any chance you'd choose to not be immortal and if so, why would you choose not to be?

I believe I would have only one regret, such as watching my children grow old...but also that would be a benefit....watching your children mature and hopefully live long, productive and happy lives.

The vampire only turns where they see is prepare to such, Aura, intentions, interest in what they hold inside the individual spiritual "records"; this blueprints are key to many natural gifts and uses in a collective sense, some look the other extreme as well, their is always evil side in everything.

In my mind we all live forever just not in one shell, we are all energy and energy does not die.

I would choose to be immortal, without a second guess. Though I would give my lover the choice...

to be able to live, learn, and expierence so much. To see just how much each generation improves just a tiny bit- until there is nothing else to make better!

If I were given the choice of immortality, I would most likely take it. But I would use my time to continue the study of various diseases and their cures, picking up where people before me have left off because of their mortality. If I had all of the time in the world to do this, I know I would be able to fully figure out something.

I'm not too sure that I would accept immortality if I would have to be a vampire too. But if, at the time I would be presented with the choice, I choose to accept it along with being a vampire, I would have to allow my other half to decide for himself. I would definitely give that choice. If he decided he didn't want it, then I wouldn't do anything about it. It would be hard to watching him die, but I wouldn't honor his choice.

I don't know if my personality would change if I was immortal. I guess I would have to think about that one. But as far as regret goes, maybe at some point when my friends and family die, I would start to have second thoughts.

I would definitely take immortality. Some of us already don't have any family left to watch die, so that doesn't matter.

I would travel, and learn. I'd want to know everything. And I'd also keep a journal of my travels.

I'd never regret it.

I'd give the person I found and loved a choice, no one should be forced.

I would have to say I would choose to remain mortal because I don't think I would ever enjoy living forever... Having to worry about all the things I do now plus trying not to get caught with it and put in a lab...

the question of immortality verses dying that a complex chioce for me to make i would choose immortality over death i would love to seeand learn all those things that I would not be able to would i choose to turn my partner well that would be his chioce to meke it would be wonderful to be someone forever but quit impossible that they choose the same ife

I've seen alot of great answers since I started to read this thread last night.

I would whole heartedly, without a doubt, say yes to immortality. As for family, there's no love lossed, and except for my grandmother, niece and nephew, and a few special friends, they can all pretty much take the proverbial leap off a cliff for all I care.

As for changing my lover, if he wasen't already immortal, I would give him a choice and then let him decide, simple as that.

Now are we not trying to gain immortality through cutting edge medical procedures, by eating more healthyer and exercising more? I mean is that not a way to gain immortlity?

What about the people who get themselves cryogenically frozen so that one day, if its even possible, they can find/or have found a cure for their disease? Are they not trying to find immortality?

I guess I see immortality diffrently than everyone else.

Immortality or a natural human life span?

See, for me that would be a very tough one- torn between living forever and dying when ever it is my time.

I would relish in the possibilities of living forever- only because I love to learn and it seems like I can not find enough time in the day to do things I want to do- but imagine being immortal... There would be no time limit, and I could explore everything to my hearts desire- travel everywhere- not having to worry about "there isn't enough time to do this or that".

But to live forever means I must watch everyone I care for grow old, die, and wither from the thoughts of those around them as they also seem to exist. Imagine, being the only person with memories... and being unable to share them with another?

I would image that would cause a person to become withdrawn, anti-social, and perhaps a little crazy. Never being able to get close enough to someone because you know they will die, but you will live on long after they have. Never being able to fully establish a true place in life- for the fear you will be run out and banished for being different... for the knowledge you possess, and the people who would torture you.. just to be like you?

Or living a human life time- giving it your best shot, doing what you believe makes life worth living, and then ultimately dying, ending the process in which we are born to do?


ah... to be immortal would be a wonderful gift and a horrible curse at the very same time.

Well I mean you're a vampire, you can bite your loved ones and turn them if they so choose, they can live forever too so you wouldn't have to watch everyone you love around you die. :O)

Immortal yes this is a dream of mine.. would i bite a lover no i would never take a person with me to love and keep all my eternity.. as far as oh booo hooo i lost loved ones. i have little to no need for love for I understand that love is just a chemical produced by your brain the lets go of hormones.. so in fact love is not a emotion just a chemical embalance.. to live and watch the world go by knowing that i have the power to stop everything sure would be fun...

Blows a kiss to the lovely Miss S. wanna find out? ;)

Gualder is correct, the human soul is endless energy. The body is a vessel only, once exhausted the energy moves to a new vessel.
Everyone has excellent thoeries and answers.

If I had the chance to live forever, I would turn it down. I like to believe in life after death. In a way, I believe in re-incarnation. I think every person and animal have a soul that can transcend the body they occupy now, and occupy another animal or person form based on his or her soul.
I want to die, and I am not afraid to die. I want to know what is beyond death and experience new life.

If i was immortal, then my life you change drastically. I would have to watch the ones i love pass and see the world change. Sometimes change is not a good or successful thing. I would try to see every inch of the world as it is now. Experience the cultures of all mankind. I would push past my personal limits to try new, dangerous adventures.

If i was an immortal vampire, I would never make or force my lover into the same fate as me. I would allow them the choice. I would wait and give them the time to consider the change and choice they made.

I would have no regret to live my life and pass as all humans do. Like i said, i would never be able to live with myself forever. I would have to watch my loved ones pass on into death. I might not be able to see the world in this form of live, but one day, maybe in a different form of life, i will be able to see the world and experience the different cultures all around the world.

lol Phantom, so your answer is ?

Ah... well then if I could turn a loved one into a vampire- I would have to say I would probably say yes then...

since I can think of a few who would be great companions to spend eternity with ;)

If you believe in reincarnation, or in the Christian eternal life, or the afterlives mentioned in most other religions, then you already believe or have chosen immortality.
I wonder though, since so few people take full advantage of the relatively short life that they have, wouldn't they be wasting their immortality. If you can't be happy in 1 lifetime, why believe you would be happy in multiple lifetimes?

Without a second thought, I would chose to be immortal. I feel we learn something new every day to learn forever would be beyond my wildest dreams! To love someone forever would be the definition of true happiness! Would I turn my love? I believe that is a choice I would not make for them. I would leave that up to them. I would travel the world, learn more new languages, go on a crusade to find others like me. The possibilities and journeys would be endless!

Hello,

I would live without fear. Live without looking back. I would leave that choice to my love. I would want them with me forever, but I would loe them to much to give them no choice.

to live, to love, to love again. to experiment , to explore, ....to just do all that there is to do...then do it all again.

~W~

I would be immortal. No doubt in my mind. No one I'd want to change. I would love a "new' beginning! The only one's I would even consider changing would be my kids, if they wanted to join me. They are grown up, si don't think I'm a freak! lol

Its a two sides sharp knife. But i would choose to be an immortal. To be able to live for long and to learn more
The sad is that i would see the ones i love and care g away

intresting responses hugs to you also

I doubt if I would, people see immortality as a way to never die but think about we see how the world is changing it hasnt gotten any better. Sure technology but what else do we have?
If we had a choice to live forever many would take it then our food source would be gone, we live we work we die thus is the chain of life. We live for a purpose. Once that purpose is fulfilled what more do we live for.
Immortality is a curse though not a bad one. But eventually even if you did change you lover you would grow tired of each other over the centuries and have to do the same process all over again. You would eventually grow tired and want to just die but you cant because you are immortal.
I like the thought of it but would I be an immortal? No I couldnt see myself doing that. Life is already cruel now and the world is already getting worse so why watch it get worse as time goes by?

I would never choose to live forever. Just look at Captain Jack Harkness. He is a fiercely unhappy man.

Yeah Insanity would be involved. To many years living alone would drive anyone mad

If after living alone for several years does not drive the individual to insanities door, then why would a few centuries, or even a millenia? In perpective, the individual is never alone, society is always around. Even if the individual chooses to be a loner, there is always social interaction and communication regardless the scenerio.

You mean to say you have never felt alone even in a room full of people? You really dont think that someone could go insane because they feel so alone it hurts to get up every morning. That sometimes you find yourself forcing yourself to breath?
You've never been on your own for a long time have you? Even if you you do surround yourself with people you are still alone. No one really talks to you unless you force conversation out of them.

Oh, go cry yourself a river to someone who actually gives a damn about what you would percieve as being "alone." It sounds so... Emo!

I don't think I will answer such a loaded question.

The vampire could not care whether there are a group of individuals surrounding it at all times or not. It is not there for them, they are simply the tools of which it "feeds" from.

Nuff said.

I guess immortality could be looked at both a gift and a curse. Curse because of having to watch people you love and care about grow old and die. Gift because you can experience more over all the years that you live through. You'd be able to see how things and people adapt and evolve to the situations and environment around them. And you can maybe even help and change some things, even without others knowing about it.

If I had someone I'd like to share it with, I'd offer them a choice of whether they'd want it or not. I wouldn't want to force it upon them to have them regret it. But I'd definitely take immortality.

(And I remember thinking about this before back a few years ago and wrote a poem about it. It's in my journal under poetry in June 2009 section called 'Endless' if anyone wishes to read it. ^^)

i read like the first half of the responses and i have some points of my own that no one raised out of the ones i read. for one thing if you have immortality but continued to age that would be a living (quite literally) hell your body would fall apart and you would never die there is some kind of myth with a lesson behind it can't remember it though. me personally i would rather be young my whole mortal life and die eventually. it is the fact that our lives will end that gives them meaning something with no end has no point really. it is becuase we have a limited number of days that they mean anything at all to us. we know that our lives and those lives around us are limited is what gives them value. as for me simply wanting to be young well i just have this phobia of getting old youth is something i greatly value and i will miss it when i get old.

i would love to live forever,but i know that will never happen :D

Would have to think about it, but yeah why not live forever.

If it's immortality as that of "classic" vampires and I could share that with someone then yes. If it's total immortality and not being able to share it then probably not. When I say classic I mean those of common fiction and legend. Those vampires are not truly immortal as they can still be killed and can even die when extremely old say around a 1000 years or more. Here's a quote from H.P. Lovecraft that I like on the subject of immortality: "That is not dead which can eternally lie, yet with strange aeons even death may day." There have been very few stories of vampires much over 900 years old whether legend or fiction. As for watching family and friends die we do that now anyway. Granted the linger you live the more it will happen but you will also be meeting more people and get the pleasure of knowing them. I've had a lot of people in my life that I've lost in one way or another and no matter how it ended even if I could go back and change it to where I wouldn't have met them to avoid the loss I wouldn't. If you really want to understand my reasoning listen to "The Dance" - by Garth Brooks it explains it better than I can.

I couldn't be immortal. If I were meant to be, I'd have been born that way.
My soul is immortal and will carry over. That's enough for me.
My husband doesn't see the point in living forever either.
I wouldn't change him even if I were and I'd die with him when he went.
I don't think I could take being without him.

Forever... that's a mighty long time....

You have to think about that carefully...

I think I have everything I want or need in my life now. Would I bite my mate? Only if he knew the consequences.

But in truth as long as I have him, it's all good...

Being immortal wouldn't be so bad. If you can find the right person to wanna spend forever with. Perhaps a few close friends.

I agree with the statement above.
Immortality would be great if you had close friends to spend eternity with.

So lets say you become immortal...you see the ages pass and mountains erode to dust...

The Sun burns all its fuel and goes supernova...the planet melts...

So yew spend everyday walking up and down lava flows and gas vents without so much as a Chair or a Tv...

No thanks !

Better to burn up than fade away...

I agree with SoulShroude, hes the only one who said something intelligent to the effect.

BRING IT ON.

Would i bite a lover, no, i cant much stand to see them after im done with them, and to have to endure one for eternity, id have to put them down myself.

To see the world change, to feel the world shifting, and to see how people change, to integrate and adapt into the new worlds evolving, learning all the magicks, learning all the skills, learning the sciences, all the possibilities of research.

Screw dying, that is for the humanist that says "life is for the living, and the secret to a good life is to live in the moment" Id go for the ever aeon as a moment. If my aim is to be as a god, then why the hell would I limit my time frame to that of the human scope, constrained by the ever "noble" yet human view that Immortality is a curse. To be a god, is to be eternal, that is what a vampire in all the research ive done is either an emenation of, or aiming to be in some part or another. Immortal/eternal.

Its all in the blood.

I would take the plunge. I don't think my life would change that much. Having a significant other, I would leave it up to them to live with me or die. I would not deny them of their own free will.

I honestly dont think id want to be immortal cause then id have to watch all my loved ones die before me and i dont think i could handle that

then you deserve humanity and all its value

I'd choose immortality and probably would Wait to decide on an eternal bride

I would wish to live forever. To live in different countries, differnt towns. The knowledge one could learn, impart to others. To see history unfold. Yes loved ones would die......they do now. The chance though to walk this earth forever though....as a vampyre.....to much. Embrace me now!!

Mmmmmm, this is a bit of a loaded question and all of the above have posted some very valid points for and against immortality but in the end I don't believe I would chose to be immortal.

Just think about it, after a few hundred years everyone and everything you've know would be dead, gone and long turned to dust. Yes you could apply yourself to study everything that interests you, make new friends and meet new loves, perhaps use your knowledge for the benefit of mankind but then you would have to disappear again before people start to notice you are not aging the same as everyone else so there you go again back to square one, alone again with only your knowledge to keep you company. Possibly you could turn a lover, friend and make them immortal the same as yours but everyone moves on and choses different paths, not always in the same direction as yourself

Besides even vampires die eventually, the only thing that differs is the timescale.

The immortal choice
Being immortal would be great but could you stand to watch the people you love the most die? would you really?

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