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Originally posted by wienerschnitzel natural death.. but i don't want to die a "natural" death, more like "accidently driving my scooter off a cliff whilst wearing pink spandex and clown make-up death".. something along those lines.

that could be nasty painful you know.

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natural death.
fuck living forever.

Splat.

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Originally posted by Lira Somehow, I don't think managing millions of years worth of memories is an easy task. Imagine the best part of your life happened in 2007 and you're living in 2000007... probably you won't be able to remember those moments as vividly as you might wish

This is completely true. However, if you live forever AND are motivated enough, you'll learn how to expand your memory or use some sort of super duper small 10^10-Terrabite external hard-drive planted in your head.

Or, the benefits of not remembering everything is learning all over again, which will be endlessly entertaining for someone living an endless life.

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Language evolves - in a thousand years, even if you don't move to another city, the language spoken around you will certainly change... you better be able to learn languages easily;

Living forever doesn't imply automatic adaptation. And if you can't adapt to a language that gradually changes over a thousand years, then you might have ooooohhh, let's say an eternity to learn it.

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Creatures evolve - will humanity change in a million years? It might. And, if it does change, you'll be like a living fossil, hanging around.

Again, if you are motivated enough, you will learn how to evolve.

I choose eternal life because I want to learn and know everything, explore, entertain myself, and am open to social adaptation (relearning social mores and folkways) and physical adaptations (fusing my brain with future technology that will be able to help expand my intelligence, memory, and strength). Just about any obstacle that comes in my way can be solved by "learning" a solution. And since I will have all the time in the world, I will be able to learn how to time-travel, use mind telepathy, play god, and eventually just get bored with life I'll reset my memory and start over again having no idea who I am. The ONLY obstacle I can see is getting physically stuck and having no power to leave (i.e. jail, or under a GIANT rock, etc). In those situations I'll just have to wait it out.

give me omnipotency and i'll go with living forever, otherwise, death would be fine.

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Originally posted by Jake Benson I will be able to learn how to time-travel

unless time is vastly different to what we believe it to be, the grandfather paradox proves time travel is impossible.

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Death FTW! 80 years or so is more than enough life to enjoy in this world IMHO.

Although there are some folk in this world who could do us all a favour and die quicker.

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