If at 18 years old you could decide how many years you can live

when i was 18 my paranoia wasn't of being dead at 23 or 26, but of getting stuck in a time loop at one of those ages, and living those same years over and over again forever and not being able to change anything. however i managed to side step that happening (reversed the polarity of the neutron flow?), i will continue to be grateful for having had the fortune to do so.

 

At 18 I would have wanted to live forever.

 

If it were realistic, 300 years would sound like a nice, round number. Of course, assuming I get to keep my perfect health trough all that. Long enough time to see a sizeable chunk of humanity's future progress (an exciting period for sure), but still short enough that I'll die hopefully long before this planet turns, like, REALLY bad when the climate change and shit really begins to show. To anyone dreaming about true immortality, consider that stuff like massive volcanic eruptions and possibly meteor impacts will eventually make us all go the way of the dinosaurs, as the planet's living conditions turn very hostile, and change the face of the whole Earth following such cataclysmic events. Consider also what happens, when the Sun finally goes supernova in a few billion years time. Not terribly fun to float in space with your immortality, when Earth explodes literally from under your feet, leaving you floating in the vacuum of space for possibly millions of years.

 

that's always my one hesitation when i answer this question. i suppose the best answer would really be "i want to last as long as humanity lasts." even if you just say 100 years, the world could end tomorrow and 99.9 years of floating in a vacuum would probably be pretty awful.

on the other hand, even outlasting humanity could theoretically be interesting. if humans go extinct because the universe ends, then no. but if we're gone and replaced by something else, like the dinosaurs were, that could be very interesting to witness. loneliness could be a problem, but that just depends on what comes next.

there's really no good way to answer this question. i'm pretty confident that i want life to be longer than it currently is, but you really kind of have to let whatever happens happen, barring the ability to see the future.

 

Age is all relative.

Age really makes no sense at all philosophically.

Sometimes it does. Someone will die and it sucks to hear, but you are not surprised.

Other rare times its just, WTF really? ... Well it as a shock to us, but somewhere in there it was not to them and it actually happened. That is hard to comes to grip with.

Ever single person I take care of at work can't believe they are the age they are. I have asked a few 'what is the trick' to age as long as they have. Answers are always pretty funny. None of them expected to live that long.

That is the point, your not supposed to know.

If i could pick a age I could live tell I wouldn't give a shit about anything cause I know my limit.

Its important to know you have a limit otherwise you aint living.

 

i would still have no objection to doing so, but i would need a very different kind of body, from anything human, possibly an entirely non-physical one.

 

then if you were a god you wouldn't be living? or does that mean if you were a god-like being you would still have them?
the universe or multiverse works they way it does, so there are limits there, and if you were god enough to reprogram, it seems likely there still would be.

 

Can one truly live without a physical body?

By live I mean, experience things. I would think life without a physical body wouldn't actually be living

 

i think thats a technicality of definician. i mean you might need a non-physical universe of some kind to live in, but isn't that what all those ideas of afterlives are supposed to be?
in most of my dreams i have noting like body awareness. in some i do, but in most i'm just a point perspective of awareness, with really no physical form at all, and when i do have any, it goes mostly or completely unnoticed.

 

reprogram, and god, are just social constructs.

It is hard to believe anything tell we die.

 

possibilities are infinite, any one of which, is one among infinity.

but we can observe a universal wonder of strangeness,
or at least its been my experience that we can,
and that we can and do the more often,
the less we pretend to know about it.

no offense intended to any and all god-like beings,
who might happen to exist.

you're absolutely right;
in as much, as whatever does, owes nothing,
to what any of us might wish or try to claim.

 

I want to live to be 100, assuming I remain healthy of mind and body. So the year 2068 is my target.

 

well i'm almost 70 now, and usually feel like i ought to be good for another ten. my mom made it to 91.
my dad keeled over almost a year less then where i already am.
in the u.s., with the health system we have, i don't really expect, without the wealth i don't expect to ever have,
to last much longer then when my body starts needing serious medical attention.
so i'm not really counting on more then year to year at this age.
all things change though. maybe the health care situation will improve,
or maybe what we've done to the environment will do for humanity as a species in less then that.
but yah, i'd love to live beyond 2020, 2025, or even 2035.