31 years old here, and felt the same way that @koboll has felt for the past 10+ years. I don't know how old I have to get for that view to change, but if I could take an immortality pill I'd do it in a heartbeat.
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I have a fair amount of acquaintances who came to realize it is possible to do something about aging, not just sit and wait. Some of these fear death, many not, for those it's just a principled position they assume.
Maybe it's a generational thing.
Yes, youth is temporary, but given how much a person can happen to achieve during their youth, why shouldn't these achievements be related to research on aging and modulation of its aspects? I can't fathom how most webapps or adclick networks could be more important things to spend your youth on, than this noble project.
If our generation won't succeed, then our children, or their children's children will. At the very worst, we will leave a good foundation behind us. At the very best, we will be there in sound mind and body to meet them as equals.
31 is still quite young. The more people you see in a box, the less weird and terrifying the prospect becomes.
You want to be immortal just to assuage your fear of dying? That seems like a bit of an overreaction.
Seems perfectly logical to me? I’d do it too. Getting tired of living and finding a way around immortality is a problem for future me.
If I can’t, then I’ll eventually go crazy and the effect is more or less the same.
Well this is why I say it seems like a bit of an overreaction.
I think you're trading in your fear of dying for a far bigger problem.
Not really. I’d be immortal if I could.
I would consider it as well, but not because I'm afraid of dying.
Rather because I think I would enjoy being able to learn about more things.
Wanting to be immortal specifically to escape death seems odd to me.
Part of my fear of death is missing out on the future. Well I get to visit other planets? Will I get to see the resolution to quantum mechanics / relativity? Will I get to see extraterrestrial life? Will I get to see humanity spread among the stars?
I desperately want to see those things. And I'm extremely scared of missing out just because of how frail human bodies are.
I agree to a point, but immortality seems like the wrong solution. Being stuck in a life you _can't_ escape has the potential to be far worse than death.