/lit/ - Literature

Well, in my current situation I wouldn't want it.
But how can I give up such a gift for something that can be fixed with an arbitrary amount of time given that I have infinite of it?
Is it a logically well thought-out step to take?

but anon, I AM immortal

YES YES FUCKING YES

If you've ever been close to death, you'd understand how I feel. Fuck that shit. Death is the enemy. I refuse to embrace death as anything but enormously hideous and tragic and destructive.

I do not care about the world after my end. I cannot abide the entire universe fading from my knowledge.

No
I'd get bored

One day, in much good company, I was asked by a person of quality, "whether I had seen any of their STRULDBRUGS, or immortals?" I said, "I had not;" and desired he would explain to me "what he meant by such an appellation, applied to a mortal creature." He told me "that sometimes, though very rarely, a child happened to be born in a family, with a red circular spot in the forehead, directly over the left eyebrow, which was an infallible mark that it should never die."

Yes. Imagine all the books I'd be able to write.

Well, for starters, I am not sure that I am mortal, for I still haven't died

Would I have the ability to end my life willingly?

>>3280208

>If you had the chance to be immortal, would you?

Immortality only works if you have other superpowers. Otherwise you'll get stuck in the ground after an earthquake and suffer for billions of years until the sun blows up, then you'll just be suffocating and freezing in space.

>>3280270

Assuming you don't propel yourself through space until you find another inhabited planet? By then you'll have had time to figure out how to communicate with the aliens

>>3280208
no, for pretty much the reasoning expressed in OP's pic.

Listening to Rush's "Xanadu" turned me off to immortality at a pretty early age.

Also, there's the Greek myth about the immortal guy who withered away.

Also, depression's kinda lame. I wouldn't want to live forever if life became hella agonizing.

I would want to be immortal if only for the sake of being an eternal poet. Whatever event, whatever year, I would have a story about since I was there.

>>3280270
Immortality is not invincibility. You would still die from anything other than aging as a normal person would.

>>3280290

>Rush
>"hella"

Why does /mu/ keep invading us?

yes, so I can read more

I come from the premise that if there was a way to make me immortal, there is a way to make me mortal again.

Read The Immortal by Borges.

But the short answer is NO.

Immortality doesn't give you time, it doesn't expand who you are as much as it dillutes you, it spreads you.

Imagine an infinite slice of bread and all you'll ever have is a 100 grams of butter. It's just so frutratring.

My face when immortality.

I'd stop aging right now because I wouldn't get any problems concerning my age and I would probably still be able to kill myself if I wanted to.

>>3280375

What a silly way to approach it.

Your life could be exactly as long as you'd want it to - you could end it at any point.

>>3280350
well, i tend to agree with you. but to be fair, they are both supernatural, non-extant concepts, so who's to say immortality doesn't include invincibility?

not him, btw.

>>3280382
Again, read The Immortal by Borges.

>>3280386
Yes, but Immortality is, in a sense, just a means of optional invincibility. The only downside being that you must manually seek to end your life should you want to end it.

>>3280390

Why not just have a discussion?

Explain to me how one can be spread infinitely over a finite amount of time.

>>3280208
No. I didn't even want to be born, and now I have to live about 70 years. Imagine the whole eternity.
I would choose to stop aging when I am 30 or something around it, but still being able to die of diseases or accidents. I would like to be able to die, but not to get old.

>>3280393
Because I don't to, bro, leave me alone. My life is short and I have better things to do.

The story is great, I'm recommending it to you, friend.

Only if I could choose to end my life. I'm sure at some point shit would become truly terrible. Imagine working a 9-5 everyday for like 500 years.

>>3280403
>don't want to
fixd

>>3280402
>now I have to live about 70 years.

Says who?

Nobody's stopping you from leaving.

>>3280402
Me too my friend. Of course, some forms of immortality as written imply there is no aging from a given point.

Oh if only.

I wouldn't like to live forever but I would like to live until the world ends. I'd get bored floating around in space after that happened.

>>3280403

You're effectively conceding my point that your post was bullshit.

Thanks.

>>3280407
I am.
I want to achieve something before I die. Besides, like everyone else, I have some fear of what would happen if I suicided.

>>3280414
Lol, stop being so anal, I was just answering OP.

>>3280421

With a load of shit. I'm just calling you out on it.

>>3280415

You didn't want to be born, but you're grateful that you were?

>>3280421
>yeah man, i read this book and i don't want to be butter spread to thin
>explain yourself
>nah man, read this book and you'll realize it
>I don't have time, just tell me
>nah man

Explain or go away

>>3280208
No. Life is nice if you do it really well but even then it can't last. Unless we have transhumanism type things, then I would consider it. Not in my current form though.

>>3280422
I never said that. I said that I want to do something.
I want to make all the money my parents spent with me worth. By killing myself, I would be throwing it all away, and that would be selfish as fuck.

>>3280454

You have some kind of moral obligation to those who forced you into living?

It wouldn't be selfish to take your own life. It would be decent payback for those who forced you into it.

Don't fool yourselves. Immortality doesn't cure nihilism; it just spreads its feeling to eternity. Cure emptiness while you're here. The problem is not after death, it's before it.

>>3280220

>patrician philisopher brofist . jpeg

>>3280208
I don't want to be immortal. I'd like to find out what is next... even if it's nothing.