on a small note sure

it's usually considered an atrocity for a parent to outlive their children though.
i'm not sure what they would call it after you visit your 10th generational grandchildren's funeral.

or like how many wives would you be willing to love and lose before the loss starts to weigh?

You're assuming that the joy of watching your 10th generational grandchildren be born, grow up, find their way through life etc., would be outweighed the grief of seeing them die one day. Similarly, you're assuming that the joy of falling in love with a new woman, a new wedding etc. would be outweighed by eventually losing her after decades of a happy marriage. (By that point, you would know how to make marriages work.)

i'll concede this is fairly debatable on it's face, but only on it's face. i'll make an example and try to lead into an over-arching point.

"if grandpa were alive to see this..." i'm not sure how common of a phrase this is around the globe, but a glimpse on the past shows us how hard it is for people to move into the future.
it's not only impossible physically for you to live forever, but impractical mentally. the world changes around you as keep your collective knowledge, and the people around you don't.
it would not take many generations for almost anyone to be outcast from the future society. we are actually seeing that change happen so fast at this current point in time, that people living already don't fit into the next generations "society".

my point coming into this, is that for this to work for anyone. we have to set our own personal rules that the universe would have to abide by, instead of the opposite.
the "what if's" are countless if you apply any critical thought.

like the user that first replied to me being a good example of nearly zero thought.
how can you say you do want to live forever, but you can kill yourself at any time? you'd only be stating that you want to choose your death-date in an attempt to avoid thinking about the consequences of living forever.

everyone needs a kill-switch, that's almost obvious. shit can happen and if you live forever, it will happen.
it doesn't even have to be result of eternal suffering. whatever rules you put in place to make it seem viable, can be completely destroyed if you think about it critically.

This post was edited by tagged4nothing on Jan 18 2024 02:50am