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I don't believe it would and I think Steve Jobs summed it up better than I could on the subject "Death is very likely the single best invention of life". It put

by kls 6y ago

I don't believe it would and I think Steve Jobs summed it up better than I could on the subject "Death is very likely the single best invention of life". It puts pressure on us and if we take the correct view of death it empowers us into action. It's funny I don't really fear death and I don't really understand the existential crisis that people have over it. I do however understand that living forever in this existence would soon grow old. All of my ancestors have lived for unusually long lengths of time. Most of them going to 100-110 years of age. My last great grandparent died when I was 30, until 2013 all of my grandparents were alive. The reason I bring this up, is none of them where in fear of what was coming after nearly a century on this earth they were ready to go. My last great grandfather was 107 when he passed, he was diagnosed with a treatable form of cancer. The doc told him it could be treated and that even at his age his chances of survival where close to 90%. He looked at the doc and said WTF are you going to give me 5 years? I am 107 years old, my wife has been dead for several years, I am going home to die. You see he saw death as mercy from a long life and the older I get the more I understand that. If there is something after and it is eternal then I would think it would be of a vastly different nature than the life we experience now. Simply put we are not designed mentally or physically to live forever. Now I have faith there is something else, and I believe that this existence is a learning experience along that path and one of those core lessons is learned via death and that is on our own left to our own devices immortal existence is a futile endeavor. I think that is pretty apparent just looking of the last two centuries of human strife and the state of current affairs. Without death, life would just be a default not something to appreciate and enjoy, it would be taken for granted and our very nature would be different. I have the benefit of if I am wrong well then I am just dead. Either way I am OK with the outcome, because I really have no choice in the matter. Worrying about it only distracts from what we should be doing and that is living in the time we have. As a side note, I am not trying to be somber and I enjoy living, but living for eternity in this reality, based on what I have seen just in my lifetime, seems like a hell and not something I would strive for.

TaupeRanger 6y ago
We aren't designed to live forever. But that's a product of evolution. If we can achieve immortality, we can achieve ways of having good lives during that time. Problems are soluble.
- kls 6y ago
  Assuming that we achieve immortality in our current state I would assume this means a cure for natural death. e.g no more death from old age. That still leaves death from murder, accidents, etc. Given that reality, I still don't see the second part as solvable. Because at the root of it, what we would have to solve is man's inhumanity to man (greed, envy, hate). Because the reality is people you know and love are still going to die, maybe they live longer but there is still going to be death. At a certain point when you lose enough people it makes one tired in the soul. I am of the opinion that you have to eliminate all suffering for an eternal existence to be worth living and we as humans have been pondering that subject probably longer than any other human problem that has existed. Now if we are talking about another form of reality say a simulation where none of that stuff ever exist and we upload our minds into it we are really no longer talking about eternal life in this existence. Rather we are talking about heaven, enlightenment whatever we want to call it just by a different name and the reality is, even though it may be a instantaneous upload, we still have to die to get there. If not we just exist in two realities one where we are immortal and a wholly different being and one we are still very mortal and still suffer from the imperfections of this existence. I just don't see how it is solvable by making what we are now, live forever.

by kls 6y ago

TaupeRanger 6y ago

We aren't designed to live forever. But that's a product of evolution. If we can achieve immortality, we can achieve ways of having good lives during that time. Problems are soluble.

kls 6y ago
Assuming that we achieve immortality in our current state I would assume this means a cure for natural death. e.g no more death from old age. That still leaves death from murder, accidents, etc. Given that reality, I still don't see the second part as solvable. Because at the root of it, what we would have to solve is man's inhumanity to man (greed, envy, hate). Because the reality is people you know and love are still going to die, maybe they live longer but there is still going to be death. At a certain point when you lose enough people it makes one tired in the soul. I am of the opinion that you have to eliminate all suffering for an eternal existence to be worth living and we as humans have been pondering that subject probably longer than any other human problem that has existed. Now if we are talking about another form of reality say a simulation where none of that stuff ever exist and we upload our minds into it we are really no longer talking about eternal life in this existence. Rather we are talking about heaven, enlightenment whatever we want to call it just by a different name and the reality is, even though it may be a instantaneous upload, we still have to die to get there. If not we just exist in two realities one where we are immortal and a wholly different being and one we are still very mortal and still suffer from the imperfections of this existence. I just don't see how it is solvable by making what we are now, live forever.