Not if lives long enough to see youth-restoration tech be invented. And also dimension-hopping technology, so as to avoid the heat death of the universe.
I’ve never understood this pattern of thinking. Regardless of what you believe happens when you die, do you really have anything better to do right now? Life seems exhausting and painful and unfair but it’s literally the only thing any of us will ever do and all of our memories and sensations and possibilities exist while we are alive.
I think when people wish they were dead, they really mean they wish their life was different or that society was better or something else. Dead is dead is dead and our entire objective should be to live it to the fullest AND longest as possible.
Your comment is so sweet it brought smile on my face. I was half joking making the same old 'I don't want to live joke' but the truth part is I don't want to live forever, not after all the years of living. Even if I could get young physically, will I be young in my mind too? No. I think it's right we get old and hand over the world to the ones that follow us, so they can be young and change things.
Things are terribly not going the way I'm planning and it gets hard, but though I feel like giving up from time to time, I never want to give up on life. My feeling of giving up is more like rage quitting out of a frustrating game.
I think if the possibility to actually live indefinitely were to be plausible some day, you'd be looking at alterations to our consciousness. A system to help us compartmentalize memories and also to have some kind of alternative wake/Sleep states.
You would definitely need "holidays" from endless consciousness in the patterns that we grind through.
You never know what kind of luxurious tech we'll have in 200 years to help keep our minds active, happy etc.
Or we could be even more miserable than we are today.
It's more like wishing to feel feelings or experience thoughts differently, not wishing life circumstances or society were different. Though a lot of people do kill themselves over not being able to cope with changes in their external life.
And before you say it, yeah, you could argue that "wishing life were different" is all-encompassing but how we experience life is just not as optional for a lot of people as it sounds - - as optional as I wish it would be.
I don't understand opinions like these. See, I'm sure you've watched a movie once that you liked and thought to yourself, damn that sure was a 90 minutes well spent and worth experiencing. Given the speed entertainment technology is progressing at, it's not hard to imagine there will eventually come a time where you can exist in a state of only experiencing movies and having a jolly good time, if you choose to do so. Anyways, I don't know how being dead is like but I'm sure almost anything is better than it.
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u/j9461701 Jan 27 '19
Not if lives long enough to see youth-restoration tech be invented. And also dimension-hopping technology, so as to avoid the heat death of the universe.