The False Horror of Immortality

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  @HelloFutureMe · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Would you become immortal? CORRECTION: in Altered Carbon, everyone has stacks, but only the meths can afford lots of new cloned bodies regularly. Minor detail, but still. If you want to see more of my work like this, your support on Patreon is so so important <a href="https://www.patreon.com/hellofutureme">https://www.patreon.com/hellofutureme</a> thank you if you already do! Stay nerdy!<br><br>~ Tim

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  @Turnil321 · 2 years ago

  I really like that sandman episode where he gives a normal person Immortality to see if it would be a curse and that person just really likes being immortal.

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  @calebchristensen900 · 2 years ago

  This reminds me of a quote from a dnd game I was in: “Wishing for a prolonged life isn’t wrong or evil. Isn’t it normal to want to extend your time so that you can enjoy the happiness, love, and experiences life can give you? If it wasn’t, why do children wish to stay awake a bit longer, or when it’s time to leave a festival, they look at your with doe eyes, asking for, ‘just a little longer?’ Where the evil lies, is in what are you willing to do in order to prolong it. That. &nbsp;That is what makes it evil.”

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  @keiththorpe9571 · 2 years ago

  &quot;I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust...I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.&quot;<br>Ovid: Metamorphoses

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  @AnotherZenThought · 2 years ago (edited)

  I love the hidden Lord of the Rings reference &quot;butter scraped over too much bread&quot; was how Bilbo said he felt after the One Ring had preserved his youth far longer than was natural.

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  @NadirEatsRocks · 2 years ago

  I don&apos;t want to live forever, but... it would be nice to live longer. That &quot;300 years and then reconsider&quot; vial sounds pretty damn awesome to me

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  @fatwe1992 · 2 years ago

  I hate to admit this but, my desire for immortality stems entirely from fomo. Theres just so much i wanna see, so much I don&apos;t want to miss!

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  @Chuck-PK · 2 years ago

  &quot;Speak for yourself sir, I plan to live forever.&quot; - William T. Riker

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  @MillieBee11 · 2 years ago

  &quot;I only rage because I am unfinished with this world as too many die already unfinished with theirs.&quot; &nbsp;You got me good with this ending. &nbsp;Actual tears. &nbsp;I think it&apos;s so easy to moralise on death, to portray it as something good and needed and natural, when you and your loved ones are not the ones dying.

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  @user-jg5xo7bd9c · 2 years ago

  As a young, disabled person (in my 20s, physical mobility issues, and cognitive impairments) this take on immortality and youth and the fear of disability is so interesting to me. It does kind of feel like people are uncomfortable around me or deny my experience as a young, disabled person due to their fears being reflected from my mere existence. It really does feel like I&apos;m trapped in the body of an elderly person and I often see people my age going out to parties or going on hikes or other &quot;normal&quot; activities and I feel a bit jealous and mourn my own life because it feels like mine is already over. (I do want to add that in my opinion, because there&apos;s a subconscious, and sometimes conscious fear that non-disabled people have of becoming disabled themselves one day, I think there&apos;s some cognitive dissonance that leads to ableism and a rejection of accessibility resources. Being disabled sucks, but it would suck a whole lot less if we could accept that disability is often just a part of life.) <br>I will say though, I often get lost in fiction; video games, books, anime, movies, etc. and it feels like I&apos;ve lived hundreds of lifetimes by doing this and in some way it&apos;s my form of not quite immortality, but vicariously living so many lifetimes through the eyes of so many people I feel like it in a sense. <br>Great video, as always!

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  @LumiKat117 · 2 years ago

  The most depressing thing is that my Grandmother passed away the very morning that this video was posted. Complications from Dementia. The section about &quot;The Dying of the Light&quot; left me in tears, because that&apos;s what she experienced these last couple years of her life... I couldn&apos;t bring myself to watch this video until last night, and then I finished it this morning.

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  @hieracium3317 · 2 years ago

  I think that ultimately people don&apos;t want to live forever, they want to choose when to go. Unforced by disease or circumstance.

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