If you ask someone what superpower they want, I would bet you a lot of money that a lot of people would say immortality. And, don’t get me wrong, it sounds like a great power. But when you take a deeper look into it, you realize it’s not all that it's cracked up to be.
The most prominent thing I discovered when researching was the fact that you wouldn’t be able to lead a happy life with anyone else. You would always outlive them. If you fell in love, you would be forced to watch them through immortal eyes while they grew old and died. Your closest family would die, and over and over again you would be forced to grieve over the family that you have lost. You would have to shut yourself away, in the hopes of never connecting with anyone again because you knew you would lose them. That doesn’t really sound like the life you were thinking of now was it? And, even if you said you would be fine not talking to anyone, humans are naturally social creatures. We need human interaction to survive. Not hearing another person’s voice forever would drive anyone insane. You would be forced to interact with people, knowing that you could never again get attracted to anyone. (Unless you’re some sort of sick psychopath that loves grieving)
The next example will be focusing on the type of immortality where you can’t die at all.
Another horrible downside to immortality would be what would happen to you if you got stuck somewhere. Let’s say you are at the Grand Canyon because why not? You live forever, you might as well do what you want. You are having a great time with no other people around. Suddenly, you fall into a deep hole. You fall so deep down that when you finally reach the bottom you look up at the sky, you can’t see any light. You would be stuck here forever. No way of getting out, no one even would know you were there. You would be stuck for all eternity. It would be incredibly boring. Nothing to entertain you, you couldn’t even die. You would live forever, slowly but surely becoming more and more deranged by the year. And that is how you would live. Forever.
You might be thinking, that won’t ever even happen to me. The odds of that happening are close to zero. But then I would tell you, those odds are only calculated for a normal human life. The youtube channel, “Because Science”, does a good job of explaining this. At exactly 5:19 minutes in, he starts to talk about the odds of everything. As he says, “All the untimely deaths will become timely”(5:24) This means that everything that probably won’t happen to a normal human person, will definitely happen to you somewhere during your infinite lifetime. The odds of a shark attack are 1 in 11.5 million. But every one of those possibilities you are going to play out if you live forever. Infinite time means infinite time for those possibilities to occur. Struck by lightning? Going to happen. Injury from a sneeze? Going to happen.
I for one would want immortality. I think that it would be useful in so many ways. I could do all the things I wanted, I could work at any place I wanted, I could become anything I wanted, and I could watch whatever I wanted. But, I would probably want the type of immortality where you can’t die from old age, but you can die from other things. I wouldn’t want to not be able to die, period.
Questions
Would you like immortality?
If so, why?
What would you do if you were immortal?
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I wouldn't lke to be immortality because say if you were immortality then that just leads to you watching your love ones die over and over. If I was immortal then I would do the things I was always scared of to do.
I don't think that I would want to be immortal. Yes, I would literally have all the time in the world to do what I wanted, but I would outlive everyone I know. I could be in excruciating pain or have a terminal illness, but I wouldn't be able to get out of it.
I would not like to be immortal. One of the reasons I wouldn't want to be immortal is that I would end up just watching all my friends and family die. It would be very sad to see, and if I did want to die I wouldn't be able to because I would be immortal.
When you really look into it, being immortal is not all of what you think it is. Although, it would be very nice just seeing how the new generation does things and what happens to everyone after your generation is gone. I personally would not like to be immortal because you see so many bad things happen to people a the life you lived with your generation that it wouldn't even make the future good things worth waiting for.
I disagree. Waiting through the worst parts of life for the goodness that will come is what life is all about. Humans are such amazing creatures, we can go through the hardest things life has to offer and still have hope for the future. Our ability to have hope is somethign that defines us. Waiting for the good things to happen is defindentally worth waiting for.
I would not like immorality. I would get so bored with life. I would want to die at the same time as my friends and not have to watch them die and live forever greifing their loss. I watched twilight and Edward did not want Bella to be a vampire because then she would be immortal and sad like he is.
I feel like at first it would be nice because you can live your life to the fullest but after the realization that you gonna witness all your family and friends grow old and die there is not really a point of making new ones because the cycle just gonna repeat.
Dying is the most important part of life. Some could say it even makes us human The choices we make while knowing that we will cease to exist someday is what makes us who we are. If i was immortal, I would accept the deaths of my family as a natural part of life and then go out into the world and lead a new and better life.
I dont think I would want to be immortal. I feel like after so many years it would be hard I think it sounds cool the idea of "living forever" but in reality I think it would be so difficult to watch your friends and family die and then just have to keep moving on with your life generation after generation.
I wouldn't want to be immortal. I feel like after a long long time I'd just want to die. Death is just a part of life and I think it's necessary. I would probably get sick of being alive, living through generations and generations. If I was immortal I'd face my biggest fears. Id do everything that has risk involved.
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