All the people who wouldn't drink it, i would say BS. Life is never boring. There is just so much knowledge to acquire in the world.
If i was immortal, i could do and learn so much. I would learn history, sciences, math, arts, etc. And since humans are continously inventing new technologies, there is always something new to learn.
You are definitely right! There are just SO many things to do, one lifetime (or maybe an eternity) is not enough to accomplish them. I mean, given x amount of time, anyone could study quantum physics, or build the most amazing house, help others in need, go skydiving without parachutes (lol..). And! You would be with a loved one (Jesse or an equivalent hot-looking person) forEVER!
shareI also agree. There would be so much you could do and learn if you lived forever. And who cares if something bad happensd to you, they would have forever to get over it, and move on. Life isn't long enough to see everything, and to really be happy, becuase you go through life so quickly, but if you couldn't die, you could really live, not the other way around.
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wow, i agree with all of you guys compleetely. For someone to say that they don't wanna live forever is total and complete BS. I found that this movie seemed to have kind of a cynical attitude towards the idea of immortality. I have never questioned whether or not immortality was a good thing until i saw this movie. But now that i read your posts, i completey agree. Just to think of all the wonderful things i could do. I could change this world (for the better), i could travel and see the world, and to spend forever with a guy like Jesse?!! Yeah. the ending of this movie definitely sucked. Big time.
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I completely agree with you!
Life is so wide and epic in scope. If I could I would live forever and learn, and create things, help people, and so on.
I would read all the books I could, try all kinds of new things that come my way.
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you clearly have no concept of living. It costs money to live therefore you'd probably just be working for all eternity. Eventually becoming another kink in the machine.
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When you become immortal, money doesn't matter at all. You could see the rise and fall of societies, money won't do you too much good if the society that supports it is in ruins.
When you become godlike, you transcend the needs of just about everybody, things that you once needed just become nice to have, not necessary. If I was immortal I could gain many lifetimes of wisdom. If money ever became a problem, one could just steal it and hide it, after you served your time, not aging a day, probably outliving the judge who sentenced you, you go pick-up the cash and problem solved.
I disagree. You say you can experience everything life has to offer by living with immortality? I think you're wrong. You don't experience probably the most important part of life, and that is death.
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I hear you. However... at the very end the narrator said it perfectly, you don't have to live forever, just live... and I think yes there is a lot of knowledge and experience to be acquired out there but really, why does it have to take forever... besides time itsels BRINGS that knowledge/experience.
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I'd rather live forever than be dead forever. I believe that when we die our soul won't go to heaven where we'll be happy forever and ever. I believe our soul disappears and that's that. We're dead and gone and that's it. So sure, living for thousands of years might become boring but it's a lot better than being dead!
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Life has so much to offer, but there are some people who don't want it.
Let's say you are clinically depressed, no matter how hard you try, you can't just SNAP out of it. There are many things that would make people bored of life, and never feel differently no matter HOW hard they tried.
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Yeah, but you're also making room for more life with your death. And that, in itself, is pretty amazing.
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I totally agree with your post LIFE IS NEVER BORING. Think about all the knowledge, you will meet new people, yes they may die, but hey we all learn to move on. We will meet other people. I would love to leave forever, I am glad I am not the only one that thinks so, all my friends and relatives agree as well.
shareyou're completely missing the point. what makes life so precious is that there is limited time to achieve your goals and live your dreams. if you could live forever, life wouldn't feel like a gift anymore, just a curse, something you could never escape.
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yeah!! also to add a few points.. the effect of immortality. population will increase... electricity and fuel will run out and also pollution... seriously! the earth would be damaged by then. how can you life forever when there's no more fresh air to breath.
I agree. If you could live forever, what does one day or one year or one decade matter? The fact that time is limited makes it special. Not to mention, there's so much more you'd never get to do if you never grew old. Growing old itself is a huge expirience that you'd miss out on. You'd have to watch all your loved ones die. Death itself is an important experience you wouldn't want to miss out on.
And, like Dumbledore said, "To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
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I agree that life is never boring, but I'm with those who say that the fact that time is what's limited that gives life meaning. If you have no deadline (no pun intended) you could just keep pushing it off forever.
Not aging would also significantly limit what you could do. You could not be a part of society for more than 10 years or so, but, more importantly, you could not form connections with other people. Meeting new people, learning from them and connecting with them, is a huge part of growth and life. If you are immortal, like the Tucks, you're constantly cut off from the world, stuck with your family and no one else. In a huge way, you might as well not be alive. I think that's partly why meeting Winnie was so amazing for them. She was like a breath of fresh air.
I had this conversation with my friend on a long coach journey, especially the part about the money/work situation
She seemed to think that as soon as you became immortal, then money was no issue, and you could just steal money to survive. She didn't seem to see that unless you were no longer human, you would still need food, a home, heating, clothes, and the normal essentials.
As someone said, you would be working - if not for the rest of your life, then for a very long proportion of it. Even if you won the lottery or somehow came into riches, that would eventually dwindle into nothing.
Despite this, if I was offered the choice, I still think I'd choose immortality, as long as is wasn't a Dorian Gray style of immortality...
There would be no stress, beyond the everyday stress of living and 'surviving', and everything you did would be for your own pleasure, there would be no boundaries, no fear to prevent you doing the things you only dreamed of.
I think there is a reason that immortality is so Romanticised.
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