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People in media always make immortality sound awful. It really wouldnt be that bad, they always make little twists like you can't ever die or nobody else can be immortal with you, all because its hard to make giving people more time to live seem awful without those twists. I find it fairly annoying.
Every time something uses the ‘life only has meaning because it ends’ trope I want to scream
It's a philosophical point of view and like anything, it's debatable.
Death create an urgency, and we cannot substract ourselves from that.
When we imagine immortality, it is framed within this urgency. You might think : well there is so much I haven't seen. But by being immortal in the litteral sense of the word, at one point, you will have seen everything to not care about it anymore. Then what? You go interstellar in the hope of finding something new in a few millions years?
If I could live a thousand years, I would definitely be interested. But living billions of years with no end in sight? Absolutely not.
I go back and rewatch movies or replay games I've forgotten about all the time and that's just like within the last few years. The universe will have plenty of repeatability.
I wanna jump into a black hole and then ride it out when it turns into a white hole. But I'd need to be both immortal and invulnerable for that.
I would probably do that eventually when the heat death of the universe is abound, at least it would be different and a chance at something new.
Or this is how Lovecraftian creatures are born, and I welcome it.
Worse case scenario you get Isekai which for an immortal would probably be kinda nice.
Nah, no way. Even for an immortal being, time is limited. You can never watch every movie, listen to every song, or play every game. They're made at a faster rate than you can consume them.
If your dream is to meet Oprah and you're immortal, that doesn't mean you get to meet Oprah. Oprah is busy. You're still going to have to bust ass to become important enough to merit an appointment before she dies of old age. There are still obstacles and limits and timers.
I would accept immortality if I could choose to die at any moment
(Quasi-heatdeath and all that)
The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant
Elf immortality would be enough for most people, can't get sick, can't die of old age, but can still be outright killed.