Originally Posted by
snoop
I don't want to live forever. If humanity strives for such a goal, those without the desire should be allowed to be left out, obviously.
The answer too relies pretty heavily on the possible quality of this infinite life. If I continue to live despite feeling tortured and starving to non-death, why would I choose to willingly perpetuate such an existence, especially if this is a widespread occurrence for those other immortals. If we can also find a way to eliminate our suffering (I would imagine all of this being achieved with nanotechnology and an advanced understanding of the human perception and how the brain causes distress, feelings of pain, hunger, illness, etc. and we can directly enhance or modulate and stimulate brain activity via electricity or magnetic waves or something. If you could be "perfect", if those rare times in your life where things do seem perfect right in that moment could be guaranteed as how you would feel for pretty much the rest of existence, then perhaps sure, I would maybe be willing to live forever, or perhaps to extend my life. However, that's a pretty tough guarantee. If this is not also strived for, in my opinion the strive for immortality itself is useless except in promoting advancement of technology in improving human life.