Life eternal - appealing or terrible

[nick]

I've been to a couple of funerals lately and its got me thinking about the prospect of eternal heavenly life. Now my question is how desirable a prospect is that. If the alternative is just nothing, death is the end, which would you prefer?

It strikes me that everlasting life seems like an overrated concept, I mean how boring would that be? Its not like I'm going to be a muslim martyr and have all those virgins to look forward to or anything. And I dont even play the harp!

[Quick_Sylver]

Hmm. Everlasting life. Never ending repeats of your life. Hm. Given the choice emptiness. But I'm not about to go seeking it out. I like my life.

[Bluearmy]

I think anyone in their right mind would choose life over death in that kind of situation.

Do you want to live forever and be bored, or just die and never experience anything ever again without any exceptions? There is always inconsistency in life. Death is absolute.

[Camazotz]

Given the chance, I would rather live in eternal happiness, if it could ever exist.

[nick]

But could you be permanently blissful? Wouldnt that get dull. I mean after the first few thousand years wouldnt you be just longing for a bad hair day?

[INFERNO]

It depends really, in a heavenly state, is it simply doing the same or similar stuff for eternity because that be hell, even if you liked whatever it was. If it involved doing some repeated things but also some new things, then sure, why not? One of my goals in life is to gain knowledge, especially about things I like, such as pharmacology, neurology, physiology, etc... . I cannot do this by doing the exact same thing over and over and over again, however, if I can do new things to gain such knowledge, then sure.

[Sage]

It is the challenges, rough patches, shitty days and tragedies that make life worth living. Should nothing bad have ever happened, we'd have no appreciation of all the good things that follow. I'd love to live forever, but not in a blissful state of any kind.

[Whisper]

immortality is living death
imagine how lonely it would all be knowing that everyone you ever love or care about will wither and die in front of you, with you powerless to stop it or even join them, how cold that would be.
Imagine how numb life would seem just in-general how insignificant everything would be. Why stop to smell the roses? they'll still be there in a thousand years....10 thousand.

No I don't want to live forever
If I could have anything, it would be to burn bright and hot
To break bones, fall in love, get messy, and then die hopefully doing something useful and not a withered old man in a bed

[drumir93]

I would only want an afterlife if I could choose to leave it at some point and move on to a state on non-existence. That's only because I want to see what happens in our future. I think it would be nice to see what goes on in the world for about 200 years after my death and then call it quits. Eternal life seems rather Hellish to me, I would feel worthless at some point with no way out.

[mrmcdonaldduck]

But could you be permanently blissful? Wouldnt that get dull. I mean after the first few thousand years wouldnt you be just longing for a bad hair day?


here is my thoughts, in heaven, bad things do happen.

i would love to go to heaven, if only to know that i lived my life right.

[2D]

I would love to live forever. But not in one state. e.g. blissful, dismal, repetitive.

[Brazdar]

I think everyone dies at a point, and by death I don't really mean physical death, one can still be alive although he died long ago and one can be dead although he still lives, I mean all the things around us keep us 'alive', all the people we know, we love, all the things we've created.
What good is it to live an eternal life and die constantly, because everything around you, constantly vanishes along with the time, why die endlessly and not just once?

[Rutherford The Brave]

Hm, this is a toughy. Ok, so I think I'll tackle this from both sides.

Appealing; You last forever, (Most people would like the scenario where they never grow old but they live forever.) Which means, if you so choose you can chase after some ultimate goal. Like wisdom, reaching the top of some peak or acheiving some goal. You get so many chances to love, which is a concern to most people because they think that love is so incredibly hard to find. In addition you might get to see everything and anything.

terrible;all the people you grew up with, die and you live without them. In the scenarion where you age, you would probably become really old and eventually you might have trouble doing anything at all. It might get very boring, watching everything unfold and seeing the same thing over and over again. I mean its hard to say

These were my opinions, I'm sure most people will interpret this different but I just thought I'd share this.

[Death]

I'd hate to live forever; it would be more of a curse than anything else.

[Aspiringanonymous]

I would choose death over life. It is only natural, and I feel much more comfortable knowing that I am fully bound to the laws of nature. If I become able to defeat one, it would cause endless complications from a mental standpoint. "No one understands, I'm alone in my position, having seen and experienced so much I have different perceptions of existence than most, I'm immortal - does that mean I'm not as human as mortals?"

[chazzrox2]

It strikes me that everlasting life seems like an overrated concept...

Ask any scientist what they're true goal is, no matter who they are, no matter what they're field the ture and honest answer will be: to live forever.

Example: physics: do we reappear in a different universe?, biology: anti-aging drugs from jellyfish, medicine: trying to make life as long as possible, no matter who the patient is.

i could go on...

[Grinchilla]

Heaven is stupid. You'd be happy all the time... like a drug- induced daze. Someone who is always happy isn't really you, right?
It doesn't make sense, to leave your body behind... and what really is you? The thing that makes you an individual or the thing that is your personality. I don't care to explain the last sentence.

If anything, I'd want to live forever on Earth, but I want to die at some point.
"Without fear of death, there's no reason to live at all"

My answer is all over the place... heh