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The Immortality Scam

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Would you want immortality if it came at a terrible price? Is immortality itself terrible and undesirable? Have we all somehow been scammed?

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20 Comments

@TheTaleFoundry Creator 2 years ago (edited) Pinned

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@tisunstrider6177 2 years ago

When I touch the snail and nothing happens

@FattyMcFox 2 years ago

The lack of choice seems to be the root of the horror in both death and eternal life. When you remove that, the horror disappears. The 'end' in immortality doesn't even need to be death. It could be a reset, or an augmentation.

@Justin-qj7fk 1 year ago

I believe a YouTube comment said it best about this topic. I forget the exact quote, but it went something like “It’s not that we want to live forever. We just want to choose when to die.”

@tntkff9901 2 years ago

"Being dead isn't painful. People who are dead aren't aware of it and don't feel anything. It's the people next to you that it hurts. It's the same with being stupid."

@RenegadeDesigns 2 years ago

As I've heard one person say "I've discovered that the horrors persist but so does the joy."

@mmllrjr 1 year ago

one of the biggest problems in medicine, that almost no one talks about, is how much pain families put themselves and their dying loved one through by not being able to let go

@DeadParfoz 2 years ago

When writers make a fictoional immortal race, most of the time those creatures never think about their immortality. But when they make an immortal human - OH MY GOD! THE PAIN! THE SUFFERING! THE CRUELTY OF THE WORLD etc.

@bencebotye3904 2 years ago

I loved this angle of Frieren. An Elf isn't actually immortal, but live far longer than most Humans, and she can value the develeopment and cunning of "mortality".

@TheSorrel 1 year ago

The Kind of "immortality" GCP Grey was talking about was basically just stopping the aging process. More precisely, to cure growing old.
And I don't see any downsides with that. You'll still die one day, maybe of sickness, or through an accident, war, naybe somebody murders you. However, until then, you can just live your life, unbothered by the continuity of decay.

@Smol_Schan 2 years ago

An eternity of suffering isnt awful because it's eternal, its awful because it's suffering. When you claim that eternal life would be awful, you’re conceding that you feel that life is awful, and that is frankly a depressing perspective to have.

@ShawnRavenfire 2 years ago

Everyone wants to die "someday," but nobody want to die "today."

@ImpSpawn 1 year ago

I like how in The Good Place, as soon as the Door was made and thus a choice was given, nobody immediately rushed through the door.
The priority was indeed having a choice all along.
Now they could take their time making the choice they were given.

@dogf421 2 years ago

idk. i constantly exist in a state of either "i want to live forever, no matter how painful" and "i want to be dead at this very instant and also have never been born in the first place" there is no in-between

@terence7025 2 years ago

Why does every immortality story have a twist? Because of the "story" part. There is no story if nothing happens or there's no moral. In the case of Sandman and his friend, he continues to choose life and little happens because he's a side story, a mirror to Sandman's existence.

@sirtofbaggins 2 years ago

"It's not about living forever, Jackie. It's about living with yourself forever."

@JeremyDA88 2 years ago

Living forever is one of those things my mind has gone back and forth on all my life. Some days I'd imagine it as something to wish for, while others will have me thinking of it as an utter nightmare. It really is one of those timeless discussion pieces 🤔

@ogfrillz4522 2 years ago

I have a crippling fear of death, I just get struck by the thought that I WILL die someday, and just start sobbing like a child every few nights. This video was oddly soothing to me, so thank you for that

@white_145 6 months ago

Immortality is worth anything is my motto. I don't need a switch, I'll be forever happy immortal. Change my mind

@liu7052 2 years ago

"Have you any idea how many would give their everything for immortality?"
"Immortality? Hahaha! For that word, all realms and beings have ruined themselves."