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01-25-2003, 02:44 PM
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Why would you want to die?
I keep hearing the arguement "would you really want to live forever?" Well why would you not?
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01-25-2003, 06:19 PM
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If you live forever, doesn't everyone else live forever, too? But, "hell is other people" as far as I recall, and that includes your parents, coworkers, and enemies. Perhaps if I were immortal I would choose to live in a cave as to avoid contacts with the human species--at least most of the time.
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01-25-2003, 07:11 PM
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If life didn't end, life would have no value.
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01-25-2003, 09:51 PM
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Who would want to be old and shriveled in a wheelchair for all eternity?
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01-25-2003, 09:56 PM
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Eventually gravity will win and your nutsack will fall off?
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01-25-2003, 11:45 PM
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LOL, Bane!
nMJ, this has naught to do with the forum topic. I'm putting it in... mmmm... Misc. Disc. Jobar. |
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01-25-2003, 11:49 PM
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Re: Why would you want to die?
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Imagine her 60 years in the future Extrapolate that to 2.38 billion years from now |
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01-26-2003, 12:10 AM
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I don't know; I currently can't imagine being bored with life, but I'm not very old yet. Perhaps thirty years from now my opinions will differ.
I certainly can't see any shortage of things to do in under a thousand years. I don't buy the argument that, if life didn't end, it would be valueless. Things are still more or less pleasant, or interesting. |
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01-26-2003, 12:54 AM
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I do want to live forever, or at least for as long as I still enjoy life.
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01-26-2003, 12:58 AM
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I also would love to live forever as a fairly young man. Growing old sucks and dying sucks even more.
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