No plans. I die like a real man.
I'm gonna die and like it.
my background in biochemistry makes me think it's almost guaranteed to be impossible, so i don't worry about it.
however, in hypothetical case it isn't, i'd argue that it would be proper to destroy this technology in all cases along with inventors, because it would be horridly expensive initially, and first people to get it would be people like peter thiel and larry ellison. there was a recording where putin and xi admitted that they are also interested. then what you'll get would be class of immortal oligarchs. planck once said, progress in physics happens one funeral at a time, it's really more general than just physics, and you can say goodbye to any progress from that point on
I don't? It sounds like a horrible curse. Part of the reason life is meaningful is that we're only temporary witnesses of the universe.
I've never gotten this attitude. Why does only having temporary existence make life meaningful?
Because, for instance, choices carry more weight when you can make finitely many of them.
Knowing you only have a limited time forces you to try and realise what's meaningful to you and what's not, and to actual act upon it.
If you live forever, have time to learn everything, experience everything... Then do you really? At which point does the amount of different experiences you run after stop painting a coherent picture of one's life, values and identity, and start looking like noise in a random checklist? Finding meaning in an eternal life would be a sisyphean task.
And also, ageing and dying are part of the human experience. Accepting your own mortality, your own limit in time, when you subjectively feel like you've always existed, is a meaningful journey. Becoming immortal robs you of that chance.
Fuck forever, just let my upcoming prostate biopsy be negative. I'm retiring and I have shit to do that doesn't involve sitting in front of the TV wearing a diaper.
good luck, friend. this internet stranger will be keeping you in mind. nobody deserves some of the shit life dishes out, i sincerely hope this goes well for you.

Why the hell would I want to live forever, I don't want to be alive now
I'm supposed to have a plan for this?
Only insane billionaires plan for that.
I'm not looking to live forever. Just another 40 to 50 years as long as I'm healthy. Only plan for that is to eat somewhat healthy and get a couple hours of cardio and strength training in a few times a week. Nothing obsurd just enough to maintain strength as I age and get the heart pumping.
I only plan for things that are possible so no plan to live forever.
Having said that, scientists are working on a cure for aging. Even if they sort that out before I die, the treatments will be too expensive for me.
I have no intention of trying to be immortal, just try to live a long time through healthy eating and exercise
"Forever" is a long time. Only this universe still has a few billion years to go. Washing my dishes every day for all this time would be boring. No thanks!
I'm just gonna wing it!
I honestly can't think of anything less appealing than dealing with other people forever.
Just fly a rocket into a stable orbit near a black hole and wait until the time dilation causes 1000s of years to pass on earth, then go back and hope someone has figured it out.
When my time comes I will rid myself of the delusion that I was anything other than a piece of the universe experiencing itself.
Maybe something fundamental of me will return. If the Buddhists are right I have a suspicion of what I am learning in this life and what I will need to learn in the next. But otherwise I will simply no longer distinct at further points in time, just as there are prior ones I was not distinct at.
I have no plans to live forever as a separate being, but I am hoping to attain nirvana so that I end the ending the suffering involved with death.
I expext to live forever, seriously. Just not in this body and not on this planet.
If we're speaking how I'd like to do that if possible, just put my brain into a robot body. Or just upload my whole mind into a robot.
If we're talking realistically:

Completely ignoring my own mortality, followed by crushing deathbed betrayal and disappointment
Y'all are crazy, I'd take immorality in a heartbeat if anyone was offering.
Consider what happens when you are the last living creature on this planet. Eventually, the sun expands into a red giant and now you give to live in constant agony inside the sun. Of course, there is space travel so perhaps you can avoid an extreme sunburn.
No plan
Hope someone else figures it out before I'm too old to make it worthwhile
Ever? None. I'm not foolish enough to think I can live forever. Even if I could be upload to a computer, I wouldn't. That sounds more like hell than heaven. No Earthly pleasures.
If eternity is all time, and all the time I have is 80 or so years (hopefully), then that is eternity, for me. I'll already live "forever".
I don't even think I wanna wake up tomorrow.
Breathing.
Keep doing what I'm doing. It's worked so far.
Magic notebook.
Everything I write in it becomes true.
Thats the neat part, I dont. I simply continue the routine of putting food in my face and if anything bad happens... Try and deal with it.
Due to my job, if about half of the fortold "end-timed" occure, its not an issUe not an issME. Ill probably be at ground-zero of what ever it is, or atleast down the block from it...
Have fun in the appocalypse. If its zombies, I get to do that one.
You only die when the last person forgets your name. So I'm going to be remembered forever, all books in history should have a dedicated page about me.
Oh no.
Return question: If you do have a plan to live forever, do you have a plan B how to end it, when (not if) it becomes unbearable?
Or when (not if) you've lost the last shard of your sanity?
And I'm here wanting to end it the moment my organs start failing
Shrug. The closest that real biology allows. I already have children so at least some sense a part of me will live on for at least the duration of their lives.
Past that I'm with most people on here that immortality sounds horrific. Now I can get behind extended life span especially if medicine and society provide for being actually healthy and able to enjoy it. Just not forever.
If life has taught us anything, it’s that you eventually get tired of everything.
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