I for one would and have even been planning a trip to the nearest cryonics lab to me. Unfortunately at the moment it is illegal to be frozen before you are officially declared dead but its looking promising that in the very near future it will be possible to resussitate people who have been frozen within one hour of death. Or there abouts. Heres a link for more info if you are interested. Please post your comments and opinions.


http://www.alcor.org/

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que não és mais minha mãe, em cujo seio esse corpo não deverá nunca se dissolver

i hope i die at 70 and come back as a marijuana plant.... lol im not sure i would like to be frozen. its not a natural life that way

I absolutely enjoy the idea of an near-eternal life. In fact, that's what got me into robotics. My dream is to one day be capable of perpetuating my own life using a mechanical body with a built-in life support system, keeping my brain at full, functioning capacity.
All this because... Death scares the living shit outa me. That, and because I think it'd be beyond bad ass to play god and design my own physical traits, abilities, etc.
Back on topic... Yes, I would absolutely want to live forever.

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No one was left who could remember how it had happened; how the world had fallen under darkness.
At least no one who would do anything.
No one who would oppose the robots.
No one who would challenge their power... or so Dr. Wily believed...

I have never really wanted to live forever.

I hate the thought of getting too old that my body fails on me. Now I know that there are all kinds of medical breakthrough's but until someone creates the Fountain of Youth then I have no interest in living past 65-70.

Live just long enough to blow my retirement money

I've heard of this, creeps me out. If you look at it, you kinda do "live" forever...when you die, your remains return to the earth, and are used as fertilizer for trees, food for bacteria and worms,the birds eat the worms, a cat eats the bird, etc......You give off gasses as you decay, they're filtered through the soil and breathed in by all living things. So we are all made up in part of past generations.

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when you guys say live forever, does that mean being invincible? or just having the ability to live forever given that you are never shot, in a car crash etc....

if you mean invincibility: consider the following: the human race is bound to come to an end in the future at some point, the earth will be destroyed at some point- either by our dying sun- or the collapse of the universe, which is how physicists theorize will ultimately end everything(or begin everything?) - so my question is, if you were invincible- what would happen to you? would you want to exist with no peers?

That actually made me think relatively hard. So, I'll give you a relatively simple, yet precise response.

No. I would not wish for invincibility. I would wish for near-eternal life, but I would also like my existence to eventually come to an end. At least when the universe does. To exist beyond that point would lead only to madness as you were forced to sit back and watch destruction/creation of all things. But, when you also look at it in that light, one can also wonder that if you were to outlive time itself, would you then ascend to godhood and be responsible for creating the next universe? Would you be the new God? This also brings up another fun question... Is the God described in Christian texts the first so-called God, or is it simply a remnant of the previous universe that had the ability to outlive it's older shell, and from it's shell create a new universe?

And, I've gone off track. But, off track or not... ponder what I have said. Ponder... and imagine...

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No one was left who could remember how it had happened; how the world had fallen under darkness.
At least no one who would do anything.
No one who would oppose the robots.
No one who would challenge their power... or so Dr. Wily believed...

I dont think a robot is going to be able to create new brain cells. You need to be looking into stem cells not robotics.

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If god dropped acid, would he see people?

Not a chance of it why would you want to live forever life can be disapointing enough with out getting to a stage where you can even wipe your own ass!

Truth be told, the original interest in robotics was actually not in body modifications, or even into prosthetics for that matter. The actual original interest was in developing Veritech Fighters. Childish, I know, but that's where the interest started.

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No one was left who could remember how it had happened; how the world had fallen under darkness.
At least no one who would do anything.
No one who would oppose the robots.
No one who would challenge their power... or so Dr. Wily believed...