Would you want to live forever?

No.

Hello Aldom ... yes I am good thank you very much, I hope you are too ... 😊

Beautifully put Norah.

Certainly not! My grandmother regarded every year after her 70s as a bonus because she was religious and believed that her alotted span was 70 years. She had made peace with her situation and once told me she would be happy "if the Lord takes me in my sleep tonight".

Im beginning to feel the same. If you dont have your full health there seems little point in going on.

Not unless humanity seriously gets their crap together

I don't want to see the ocean eventually contain a floating plastic continent

I don't want to watch the oceans rise and the equator become uninhabitable with a population clamouring for available food

I don't want to see my great great grandchildren chocking on severely polluted air with their bodies riddled with microplastics

I don't want to see the mass extinction of every beautiful wild animal until everything left is inhabiting an ugly cage.

If humanity git their crap together, sing me up! I'll regale the great great great great grandchildren with how their daft elders almost screwed it all up because they couldn't be bothered to harness natural energy and preferred a disposable lifestyle

Yes, I’d appreciate a bit longer please. Just starting to enjoy life. Always planning new businesses, new travel, time with son and husband and friends. My GP told me I am resilient. Can I have a new set of teeth without visiting a dentist?

No please no
My DM lived until 93 but years before that she would ask us why she was still here. She had been a widow for 55 years
She was tired of it. It's hard being old.

I would like to continue to see my DGC growing up - the eldest is 16, the youngest 5.
I have been a widow for 2 years. I miss him very much . If there's a Heaven and we meet again, I would love that

No, I’d quite happily go now.

Blimey we would be standing shoulder to shoulder if we lived for ever and continued to reproduce.

But - if I could live for ever and say I was in my 1500 year, just think what I would have seen.

My fantasy is to be able to go back in time and have a look at what was really going on.

No, no, also no and did I mention no!

I am happy to stay for as long as I am healthy but we all have a natural life span. I believe in an afterlife and that when my time comes I will be reunited with loved ones.

We are all going to live forever- as we are spiritual being, merely encased in our bodies. The question is not if we are going to live but where and how we are going to spend eternity. Because I have given my life to Jesus Christ and I follow him I have my name in his Book of Life and will spend eternity with him. Most people reject Jesus in this life and do not follow him and will spend forever burning in torturous Hell (their choice). So you will live forever whether you want to or not. Your destination is a different matter. Choose Life.

Yes. With a few conditions: That my loved ones also had the same privilege. That we would remain in good health, mind and body. And that there was an "opt out" clause that we could all choose to painlessly die at any point that we decided on.

Nope.

No, not at all.

No, especially how the World is now.

I think I'd like to try it, as long as I was as able to remain in good health and could decide to stop taking it if I changed my mind. Only drawback is I'd probably be stuck as I am, old, creaking and losing my marbles a bit. Going back to work and not earning enough for a decent life, cold in winter, too hot in summer, might dampen my enthusiasm bit. Would be ok if family also had the same opportunity, although I can imagine my partner and I might fall out before eternity ended....

Yes, as long I have good health (mentally and physically) and DH lives forever too.

Well I'd love another 50 years please!

Not if I'm the only one left!

It seems to me that most of us become more pessimistic as we grow older, and I presume this would be the case if we could live forever. Probably, living for ever would make people blasé and bored - after all how many new experiences can there possibly be after the age of 100 and something?

I would not like to live in a world where there were no, or only very few, children and young enthusiastic people, which is what might well happen if we could live for ever.

I frankly don't believe it is possible to extend the cellular life of the human body indefinitely.

The over-population that many of you have already mentioned makes me afraid that if people could live forever, some kind of culling in the worst and most scary science fiction senarios would be instituted to get rid of the surplus.

Not a happy thought, is it?

Instinctive response - no thank you.

No. The world's bad enough as is it. I dread to think of what it will be like in years to come.

Absolutely no. Terrible idea and a poor use of an inventor's time when there are so many other things that need inventing that could make lives better. An immediate thought is prevention of/cure for dementia. I've had a good innings and don't fear death as such though I do fear a bad death. There are too many bad deaths in an age when it doesn't need to be so. A pill to live for ever? Be careful what you wish for.

No way!

Yes definitely I have fear of dying. I cannot comprehend that death is so final.