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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I'll start off with one, Being upset about a breakup that happened hundreds of years ago.

Edit 1:

  • Heath death of the universe, Death of the sun, etc, does not count. I feel like focusing on this is an overused point.

Edit 2:

  • Loneliness does not count. I feel like we all know immortality means you'll miss people and lose them.
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[-] mobiuscoffee@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 weeks ago

One of my books features an immortal protagonist and I've as such thought about this quite a bit. More than the answers already provided here, what I found interesting as a writer was the balance I needed to find between making an immortal detached from mortal values while still being engaging to mortal readers.

Said as a pithy question, if you can outlive everyone's decisions and mistakes, what would it take to make you do anything at all?

[-] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I think you're undervaluing loneliness. Loneliness isn't just missing some one. Loneliness means there's no point in connecting with people because they will just die. Loneliness means that no one knows the depth of your condition because it isn't available to them. It means that as they change and face new obstacles, you'll be oblivious to all of that. You'll not only see them die, you'll see the vitality deep out of their pores as they age. All the while you'll never know what that means personally or feel that slow slipping.

Also, super weird that your example is a breakup and people dying is something not worth registering.

[-] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

I kinda disagree with you. Why would it be different from now? We know that people will die.

I've had good friends pass away at different times, and it hurts but eventually, I move on.

My only exception, with the knowledge I have today, is that I wouldn't have any kids. That attachment is straight up reptilian brain and that would be way too hard. Otherwise, it would be okay.

[-] Kache@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's the difference between knowing you'll grow and graduate together with your classmates vs knowing you're only going to see them for that one month before you move away.

[-] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 weeks ago

I'll say no one can truly know. Unless you are yourself immortal

[-] doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago

Loneliness. I think being immortal would show someone what true Loneliness is

[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I suppose it depends on the rules of this specfic immortality. As someone who lives with chronic pain that literally never feels physically comfortable in any position, immortality sounds like a cruel joke. Not that I'm suicidal or eager to die, but the fact that it would progressively get worse and worse without any sort of end is.... horrorific.

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Does yer dick still work when you’re like 150?

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[-] ShadowRam@fedia.io 3 points 4 weeks ago

Read this on the largest number every used in a mathematical proof.

Then ask yourself, if you think you could handle this number in microseconds let alone an eternity

https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/11/1000000-grahams-number.html

[-] 0_0j@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

LoL investing and compounding! I literally have all the time in the world.

[-] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

If it's just you being immortal, loss of all family, and friends, and loss of new friends, rinse repeat forever. Eventualdieyoull watch society collapse and regrow (possibly), and the planet will die. Immortality is forever after all. Then you're left alone on a deserted dead planet. Electronics you have will eventually break and fade away to time. The sun will grow and die off, and it'll burn because you're immortal but still stuck on a planet that'll get enveloped, eventually. Living forever would be terrible unless it was forever until you died of something physical, just not age and illness.

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