if you could live as long as you wanted

pls forgive me mr. tomas

@Math_Enthusiast

I don't know if life would be more challenging or not,

I'm 29 years old,

. . I 'imagine if I was 122 years old, life would be a different experience,

Though I am not speaking of the body difficulties or mental deterioration,

But the 'perspective,

It's theoretical to me,

And some 300, 500, 1000, even more so.

. . .

The idea of immortality 'just out of my grasp irritates me,

Though 'eventually sun might blow, or some other cataclysm,

I looked online for information on immortals once,

Well, realistic fictional ones,

The idea or war, disease, slipping in the shower and hitting one's head,

I imagine many immortals would not actually live 'so long, though some might.

. . .

Of immortality here and now,

It makes me all the more disliking my laziness and cowardice,

To not attempt all I can to become wealthy and live as long as I can, 

Force research into life extension tech as much as I can,

Though,

On another hand, I'm not convinced we're anywhere near immortality tech.

I don't have strong views on suicide,

I'd physically stop a family member or close friend, encourage them to live,

I feel a will to live myself, see many reasons for it.

But that's not to say other people 'can't have a will to die, a lack of one to live,

Not to say that they can't have reasons.

And I 'do like self determination,

Though the question then becomes are they out of their mind,

As a drunk person might be prevented from driving their car.

. . .

Though,

This 'baseline I'm positing,

I doubt it's really 'objective.

. . . .

I don't know if we should stop people from committing suicide,

I'm unsure of the value of humans, even if my family, friends, and myself ring strong in me,

Well,

That's more, 'Might be more a preference for myself, than a preference for them,

My preferring they stay alive, so to speak. I'm uncertain.

. . .

I recall in Futurama they had suicide booths.

. . .

I don't know,

If someone was being eaten alive by ants with no hope of escape,

I think I'd say, well, your choice,

Certainly 'looks painful.

Wouldn't surprise me if many people chose to end it quicker, than later.

@Nyxified

How are you 'you,

Without your memories?

Imagine if we didn't keep track of  24 hours a day. 

A week and a year. 

I'd imagine living to 80 not knowing you were 80 you woukd think your approximately 70.

People would  get asked   how many approximate days and nights old you are.

80 years old is 28,800 day and night times.

Alot of peoples would Tattooed tally on themselves 

Orrrrrrrr

It wouldn't be that important,  how many days and nights you've lived for. 

I think everyone may know that We are all  gonna die between 75 and 100.

So yeah,  a person that committed suicide lived as long as they wanted. 

"But one can still enjoy much in life on an average salary" If that was ever the even remotest scenario then no, I absolutely do not under any circumstances want to live forever.

Is it a question of a comfort threshold then,

You would not want to be X uncomfortable, forever?

What do you mean by wealth?

Some people say nice socks,

Some people say private planes,

ONE HUNDRED THOUUUUUUUUUUUUSAND DOLLARS.

you know 

Like Rich. 

Thats 100,000 $$$$$$$$$$.

Rather than answering your question of "How am I me without my memories?" Perhaps it's more valuable to frame my stance differently.

If given eternal life as a human without any concern for death, boredom is inevitable. There are only so many unique experiences and there's only so much growing to do.

I do not value experiences solely for the memories they create (though that is a plus), but for the experiences themselves. I can grow and find meaning in life whether my life be limited due to death or because I choose to erase the life I lived and begin anew again. I find beauty in the experience of growth as well as in the growth itself.

If I were asked to choose between an eternity of boredom or an eternity of cyclical life, I would choose the later.

I suppose the answer to your question is that I wouldn't be 'me' in the same way. So long as I got to continue enjoying life (lives?) and my consciousness continued on, however, I doubt I'd mind.

Is this the direction of what you believe/hope people are?

Having individual eternal souls?

Or ideally 'If we could make immortality, what you think would be good to be?

Other?

. . .

I say 'hope, because I tend to be very iffy on my own beliefs,

That I think 'maybe,

And some of the maybes make me happy, that even though they're maybes, I'm hopeful that they 'are true.

I have my beliefs, but I have surrendered any notions of certainty when it comes to what happens after we die. Any evidence that exists to prove any viewpoint can (and more than likely will) be disproven in the future. To think that after thousands of years of getting it wrong that whatever science we know now is finally the 'correct' answer is presumptuous at best.

I don't believe death is the end (though what happens in particular is not something I have strong thoughts on), but I have made my peace with the fact eternal oblivion may be what faces me and that there is very little I can do about that if that is the case.

I think the naturalistic proposals for consciousness continuing/restarting after death are also very interesting! But if eternal life could exist on this mortal plane (which wouldn't be very mortal anymore), I can't think of a better way of going about it.

"What do you mean by wealth? " After my last three posts it should be pretty clear what I mean.