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I'm thinking of this live forever thing in a different light. The OP simply stated that we would always be conscious, not that our actions were restricted to the activities of our current lives. I would choose immortality with the view to find out who i truly am in a spiritual sense. I would spend years devoted to meditation and things like that to see whether that could actually take me anywhere. Eternity is a long time, and my beliefs lead me to think that i could evolve my mind and live within an altered state of consciousness where life seems quite different. That's just a vague concept and i don't mean anything concrete by it, but that's the general idea i'm approaching this with. |
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I still would love immortality.. |
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The problem is: after the Earth is destroyed (which will most certainly happen within the next few thousand years or earlier) then what do you do? You wander around in space, and since we can't travel at the speed of light or faster, we wander around to lifeless planets. If we could live forever and be able to travel extremely fast, then we could visit new galaxies and find other Earths that are almost identical to ours, except not destroyed yet... and then we could have fun there. But if it was a question of simply living forever, after billions of years, and nothing left to experience, you will want to die and leave it all behind. But you can't, you're trapped forever, in a vast and possibly infinite universe. I would rather live to see the end of the world, and then die peacefully. But as for the question, I'll pick death. |
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In the context of spirituality, eternal life is beyond the mortal ego. Therefore, as eternal life and bliss, boredom and suffering are out of the question. |
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Given the current question, I don't know why anyone would pick mortality. One could always choose to live forever, and then decide at a later date to kill themselves if life got boring, or if they simply wanted to see "what death is like." |
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Actually, you are choosing to live forever or not, all the time! Right Now! Every instant, you choose how you will live, and the reason you can realize eternal life at anytime is because you are always forgiven from your ignorance. |
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The way I interpreted it is that, if you choose eternal life, killing yourself is not an option. It also implies you cannot become paralyzed/contract illness and can breath in space/underwater, etc. Otherwise the question becomes moot because you don't, in fact, have to have consciousness forever. |
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I am afraid of death. |
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I think this question is the one I can answer the quickest without being mistaken : die someday, make everything stop. |
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I would choose to die, as long as I would be able to live for a long time ( lets say 95). I'm not afraid of death, I'm just afraid of dying when I'm still young. I'm 16 right now & it would suck really bad if I died tomorrow. |
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I never wanna die. |
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I would choose immortality. Not because I fear death, but because I love learning so much that I would gladly live forever if it meant I could see what happens beyond my mortal lifespan. And, once the earth was destroyed, even if I had to stay conscious the entire time I was in sace, even if I couldn't breathe, couldn;t move without oxygen to power my muscles, I could still find escape in madness. If I found a 15-30% oxygenated planet with liquid water, moderate sunlight, and seasons, the bacteria housed within my immortal body could eventually rise into a species that, if not physically similar to humans, could eventually communicate with me, or I with them. And once the universe died, either I would pass once again into madness, this time forever, and there seek solace and company, or I would find what it was like to live in a void of nothingness if it collapsed, possibly becoming the god of a new universe. |
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I as well, but I still fear death. |
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I think this question is the one I can answer the quickest without being mistaken : die someday, make everything stop. |
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I fear what happens after death. |
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Yes, to extremes. |
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Die and not have consciousness. In the end it depends what kind of existence it would be. The one like right now, without death, or some nirvana like, oneness experience. If it's the latter then I might choose life, but otherwise, no. |
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