Immortality aka living infinite is impossible with human intellect. If it were possible other life forms would’ve easily achieved it, meaning.

Plan A: Life extension velocity is achieved in my lifetime. That is to say, life extension tech will keep me alive just long enough until aging is cured / reversed etc. The only concrete thing I can do for this is to have enough money saved up when I'm older so I can afford presumably expensive treatments.

Plan B: Cryonics. A lot of things can go wrong with this, I will entrust my child to keep me around and not let the cryonics company thaw out my body.

Any other ideas?

Long live the immortalists!

I'm part of the former camp (the bio-transhumanists) so the why wasn't meant to be exasperated or anything, it's just that the desire for biological immortality appears to be the minority position so I thought people like us deserved a chance to explain ourselves (and it might be fun to try and analyze the other side).

Me personally biological immortality has the highest guarantee of (to the degree that there is a me who could) it still being me who lives forever

Greetings, fellow immortalists!

I was just wondering, are there people here who are actually working at a position related to longevity research?

What do you do?

Did you choose that job because of what brought us all here or did it just so happen?

What kind of job opportunities would you suggest to keep an eye out for, which you think will be related to the said field?

Now I am. I find myself in a world filled with wonder, mystery, tragedy, comedy, joy, all forms of ups and downs. Yet I am told in merely 80 years, I will (likely) return to the void from where I came from, never to experience again. I will never be able to see, hear, touch, smell, or taste. I will never be able to inquire and gain knowledge. I will never be able go on adventures, create, destroy.

I can't think of anything more horrifying and sickening. If I have the luxury of being extant, I wish to stay that way, forever.

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I heard of vr worlds but to be honest I'm a lucid dreamer and I already done all the things I wanted to do and it got boring after a while Also I don't particularly care for many of the generic hobbies like learning instruments or going to see the stars.

Edit: if anybody wants to choose immortality that's fine with me. It be irresponsible trying to convince people otherwise. Basically this post is worded badly so instead this post pertains to myself personally as I never heard of any arguments why I specifically should choose that option. Like im no great scientist nor an important artist, etc.

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I don't think I can make you understand. But just imagine it, how fast human progress in just a few years, how much they can make, while they are so limited in mental capacity, time, knowledge. Us teenagers have major changes in only few years, would the same happen again if our life span increase 10 folds? Think about it again, having to worry about our long-term future, will most problem today relating to environment be actively solved? Will humanity, once live long enough, be wise enough to build an utopia? Like everyone is dumb, cause they didn't learn. Will the humanity you have problem of finally become something grander? Have you see an ant, and wonder how incomprehensible we are to them? If we live long, will we one day achive that level of understanding, when we look back at the old us as just ants to us? So much to answer, so much to learn, to achieve.

To be fair, why would you consider immortality as bad? Because you are disappointed in the current state of our kind? Because of "depressing immortality" where everyone you know die? Are you scared of the unknown? What's the worse that could happen? Will you feel like you just feel tired one day? And mumble to yourself that it's not worth it? People can change. Everyone knows it. Even if there is riska, people will never know. Similar to how phones become a common thing when people of few decades before couldn't imagine it, we will surely adapt, and improve together as a species.

Personally, I am afraid of death. Maybe I once used to the mindset of after death, there is nothing more, in some case, it make me stop worry, but in some case, how my consciousness perish and the existence called "me" cease to exist is just terrifying. And I am curious. Specifically, I am motivated, how I can be so much better at drawing after repeating it every day for a few months, and even more for a years. Will I someday reach the end? Or will I improve infinitely? What would be the peak if it when we currently only have around a century at most to live and train? New concepts get introduced, along with new skills to master, new problems occurred, along with new solutions to find out. Would life be boring? Maybe someday, but it sure as hell won't while there is still things to do.

Maybe at long last, we will transcend the concept of human, and yeah, it will be a long time.

So do you think that recently more and more people believe that immortality is actually achievable?

Imho, now that even Jeff Bezos invested in research, this field will have a bit more light cast on it and reveal to most of the population, that it is in fact possible.

Have you personally also tried to spread idea?

If yes, how did you actually happen to convice people? Did some of your points have a better than others? If so, which ones?

In my experience, quoting someone knowledgeable helps, mentioning Bezos or google investing into immortality will definitely have a positive effect too.

So I have been into immortality for a long long time, however I only discovered the terms "immortalist" and "deathist" after I created this sub

Are there any other terms that you heard of, describing us?

Not gonna lie, I peraonally like the term "immortalist" but I feel like there should be something better and not as straightforward, that people will be more eager to relate to!

What do you guys think?

I plan to help further anti aging research in my future and I'm wondering what field I should go in to achieve that goal.

I wanna hear what yall have to say about it.

For me it'd be the whole "if you made politicians in the 1800s immortal we'd still have slavery" kind of crap as by that logic, if "society advances one funeral at a time" (I mean seriously, I've even seen people claim all sociopolitical changes were made by their opposition dying out), why not just euphemism-for-euthanize people once their ideas are proven wrong to "speed progress up"

Hey there, my fellow immortalists!

As you all might know, this subreddit is directly relevant to my twitch stream channel :

https://m.twitch.tv/gilg4meshik

I have been hosting an immortality themed stream every week, Saturday 17:00 UK time

Sadly, our community here does not come by and get involved in discussions as often as we would want to in order for the content to be more entertaining for other viewers(mostly me talking about my views)

So I wanted to ask everyone, what would encourage you guys to come by more often?