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> You're following the narative trope of one person being immortal and watching as everything around them dies. No, that is not the reason for my comment. It
by TelmoMenezes 7y ago
> You're following the narative trope of one person being immortal and watching as everything around them dies.
No, that is not the reason for my comment.
It seems clear to me, both by life experience and reading related research that humans require meaning to have lives worth living. This might be a hard pill to swallow, but I suspect that it is ultimately our mortality that gives our lives meaning. If there is nothing to strive for, then there is only pleasure seeking. Your life becomes an infinitely long hedonistic binge. Human beings were not designed to withstand hedonistic binges for too long without dark consequences (as in, dissolution of meaning, extreme depression, etc).
I guess you could argue that with infinite time, you could figure out how to redesign yourself until you are comfortable with immortality. But are you still yourself by then? Or is this problem also already solved by... just dying?