Would you want to be immortal?

It would be my worst nightmare. Even if I could choose to die (although society would have to make some serious progress, because at the moment suicide is always prevented coercively whenever possible, and with more advanced surveillance technology it is likely at some point to become impossible to commit suicide without official sanction from the government), I would be worried that I would never have the courage to actually go through with it.

Me thinks you made a typo in your title. I think you meant to say "Would you want to BE immortal?"

Not many people like this idea but I do a lot. Many people think it could be a hell of suffering. But I think existence is an awesome thing. I believe eventually things can improve in the long run so existence could become more enjoyable.

It’s not like if you say No you would live without suffering. If you’re mortal and outlive everyone you love in your life isn’t that just as bad? Possibly worse because you also have to cope with your own mortality.

Not as an organic life form. That's like a sentence to Hell. Or any "immortality" based on physical life.


But then that wouldn't be immortality. That would be relying on luck.


So, real immortality would mean not being a cog in the machine of the Universe. In fact, loving one's "life" in organic form would be a case of "be careful what you wish for, you just might get it". It would be Hell to be reincarnated as different life forms over and over, always under the thumb of the demons that would control your anguish every time you were a wild animal that died a painful death and lived a painful life.


Real immortality would either be "under the thumb" of others that make this world, or prince and princes of this existence, or it would be simple observation or sensation of whatever you experience without a nervous system, so to speak, or thirdly, it would mean being in control, actually making rules and setting other cognizant beings into place. 


In Christianity, this is addressed clearly by Jesus, and is the crux of everything he preaches. It's even at the root of forgiveness, and more important than Faith. It's the wisdom to realize that if you want to play in the control game of Satan, you're never in control, and you can only be in the control game of the good God and good Holy Ghost by not wanting to control others. I don't know if that's possible. You'd have to live a blessed life to feel complete forgiveness of others, and I'm not even sure that Cary Grant and Sophia Loren lived that totally blessed of lives.

To be immortal, while being able to make existence better for everyone else, to be a good steward for others, which isn't as complicated as some Christians think, nor as base as materialists think, because the fact that they suffer the same fallacies in logic, such as thinking suffering is important to enjoy bliss, is proof that they're totally confused by demonic forces. I'm no different. 

I think you have to be "spirit" not physical being or energy, to enjoy immortality, and to really experience it without relying on total luck.

Only if I was a supernatural being capable of “creating” and “destroying” at will.




Otherwise no.