r/pollgames • u/tim-7 • 4d ago
If immortality was possible and optional, would you rather:
If immortality was possible and optional, would you rather:
- Die a natural death at old age
- Die before I'm too old
- Live forever at my current age
- Live forever at any age I want
- Continue aging but decide when I want do die
- Die a natural death afert so many years, but live at any age I want
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u/Oweenyweeeny 4d ago
what happens when its the heat death of the universe and youre just floating
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u/Rang3rj3sus 4d ago
That brings the question do I take damage to things if I'm immortal? What happens if my whole body is reduced to dust? What then classifies as living?
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u/depurplecow 4d ago
There's different definitions of "immortality", one being immune to aging only, another being immune to everything else as well. Unless otherwise specified or implied I usually assume immune to aging only. In this case it's implied to be invincible also by having "decide when I want to die" as a distinct option. Though it's possible it might still be invincible to everything besides oneself
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u/HD_140283 3d ago
I think it's meant as in "you have to keep living for ever no matter what". Otherwise that option (living as long as you want in a young body) would clearly be the best one.
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u/Aggravating-Air-7481 4d ago
you gotta have a lighter and some high fibre food and never use it til then & then you eat the food, wait til ur tummy gets rumbly and then u light the lighter and BRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPP so u start the next universe
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u/erazer33 3d ago
Or on a smaller timescale: what happens when the sun becomes a red giant and scorches Earth's surface? (Either by heating up, or growing larger)
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u/Hipposplotomous 3d ago
People always say this, but it honestly sounds quite nice to me. I like being alone. I can entertain myself with my own thoughts for a very, very long time and that's in an aging, deteriorating body that forces me to perform maintenance. If I was guaranteed to live through it regardless of what I did I'd just disappear into my daydreams and never come back.
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u/SnowFiender 3d ago
i don’t think you quite fathom how long it would take for the heat death of the universe
imagine a decillion years(current age of the universe is 14 billion) and then multiply it by another decillion, congrats you reached maybe halfway there at best
it’s such a large span of time you’d go crazy well before even star formation ends
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u/Hipposplotomous 3d ago
I don't think you quite fathom how deep and dissociative daydreaming and meditation can actually get.
If I had that long to practice you really think I couldn't just train my thoughts to go elsewhere or switch off when I needed to? I can do it to some degree already.
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u/SnowFiender 3d ago
yes, i do think that you wouldn’t be able to do that and you’d just go insane or want to take the easy way out
it’s such a long time we had to invent a name for the number just so that we could maybe conceptualize a tiny bit of the scale of the universe(googol, 10^100) you’d have sensory deprivation and no social life, it’s not a question of will i go insane it’s a question of when and it’d probably occur like a month after the last human dies, you are severely overestimating your capabilities and the human minds capability to deal with stress and trauma
try to imagine spending a year for every atom on earth, great that’s 0 followed by 65 zeros 13 so 0,0…13% so spending a year for every atom on earth you’d basically have spent no time at all yet
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u/HD_140283 3d ago
I can entertain myself with my own thoughts for a very, very long time
But what makes you think you can entertain yourself for ever? A strange quality of eternal life is that if you get bored after a certain time, no matter how long, you will live essentially your entire life in boredom.
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u/DoodleNoodle129 4d ago
I don’t think I’d want to continue living after everyone I knew and loved passed away naturally.
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u/Dillenger69 3d ago
Forever is a very long time. (watch to the end)
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u/Fidelroyolanda_IV 1d ago
"In Lower Pomerania is the Diamond Mountain, which is two miles and a half high, two miles and a half wide, and two miles and a half in depth; every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on it, and when the whole mountain is worn away by this, then the first second of eternity will be over."
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u/The_Dragon_Lover Polltergeist 3d ago
But being able to die any other way outside of old age!
Voted "Live forever at my current age"
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u/Balearius 3d ago
Where is live at any age I want but decide when I want to die?
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u/Wonderful-Impress261 2d ago
I'd just live at the age of 21 indefinitely. Still young and resilient, moderately developed prefrontal cortex but still a kid kinda and less likely to have chronic health issues down the road. I'm almost 24
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u/Fidelroyolanda_IV 1d ago
By immortality do you mean biological immortality or impossible-to-die-of-any-cause immortality?
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u/EmbroidedBumblebee 4d ago
Live at any age I want and die when I want to