beoba

1) Gets boring after a while.
2) I've been dead for billions of years already, and it hasn't inconvenienced me a bit. (I think that's paraphrasing a quote from somewhere)

Scottyman

I'd much rather be a little bored than a little NONEXISTENT!

Iamthebeerking

Bored? Cynical? Without life, there's nothing to experience. That's what makes the idea of REAL eternal life so tantalizing. I think that with an ulimited life span, I could find many ways to exist happily.
I accept my eminent demise, but I don't have to like it.

MzNeko

I don't know about wanting to live forever, but I'll tell you what I would like - I'd like to live until I damn well think I'm done, rather than have a limit imposed by biology and entropy, whether it be a thousand years or merely the next fifty or so.

Kuu

I wouldn't want to live forever but I wouldn't want to know that I couldn't die. I enjoy myself more knowing that I have a limited time to cram things in.

Aging doesn't overly bother me that much. I developed early onset osteoarthritis in my early thirties so sometimes I feel old even now. However I believe most things that happen have a 'silver lining'

I love my mountain. I used to bushwalk a lot and the mountain was my favourite place to walk. The other day with some friends I managed a 5 kilometer walk on the mountain. It was the first time I had been on the mountain for about 4 years. I have never enjoyed a walk so much.

90% of the time I enjoy life (when I get depressed, I get really depressed but it rarely lasts more than a day). I don't think life is long enough. Maybe I would get bored after 1000 years. I have no idea if I would or not. So many new and interesting things would come along.

Besides, I would like to live long enough to see teleportation. I would love to see the world but I actually hate being away from home and the actual travelling. So I won't get to see much of the world until teleprtation becomes a reality. BEAM ME TO ICELAND, SCOTTY.

abe smith

Yeah, well ... OP. At My Age, Honeh.....
Many/most members here at EYE_EYE are probably not yet old enough to look the possibility of their own old-age squarely in the eye.
I am old-enough; and I have done that.
And so-far (after a false start...) I'm staying here on the thin ice
of Chance trusting that It's Not Quite Time Yet.
Fer sher, I'd choose to get-out of my life, deliberately and any-time-now, than to be made to "live" as some old people are made to "live".
If y'all young haven't considered this, maybe you shd visit some nursing "homes".

Azathoth

Well,one of the drawbacks of being immortal,would be having a sword wielding nutcase,trying to cut your head off.

Really,though,it's not like we have a choice.Death is inevitable.

However,even if I had the chance to live forever,I wouldn't take it.Unless there's an infinite number of things to do in the universe,you'd eventually run out of new experiences,and the existing things to do would get boring.How many billions of years could someone live,before going insane?

Memory storage would be another difficulty.With any physical form of immortality,the individual would eventually run out of space,no matter how efficient the medium for doing so.If we managed to acheive perfect bodies,using every neuron for memory,we would still,eventually,lose the ability to store any more information.A mind wipe would solve this,but the individual after the wipe would not be the same one as before,making it more like suicide,than a solution.

I suspect that,eventually,human lifespans will be much longer than they are now,and I don't think it will be a bad thing.However,actually living forever has problems that would not make it a likely option,no matter what form we take.

Ab_Normal

I'm screwed... I was thinking that way when I was 20, and that was a while back. Maybe I'll undergo some major transformation and actually be hopeful when I'm older.

Yeah, right.

Ipecac

I find it odd that people could imagine being bored after hundreds or thousands of years when you consider how vast the universe is. I don't think many people really grasp how large the universe is. Hell, I don't think I can really grasp it. Even with a thousand year lifespan I don't think I'd be able to read every book.

If we are able to extend our lifespans that dramatically, surely successful cryonics isn't far. With cryonics, sublight star travel isn't such an obstacle.

crocodile deathroll

Heaven is to me a thousand years of paradise plus and eternity of boredom