Imortality

Yes I did mean immortality on Earth and I've already said that I would not take it. I do though wish for my name and ideas to be immortal. . . .

Everyone has a bit of an Achilles Complex.

No way.
Obviously there's two sides to the coin, but I believe one outweighs the other.
Assuming I get married, watching the person you loved the most die, then your children, your grandchildren, etc. You'd become more alienated as time went on, lost in a new world.
Thinking about it makes me shudder.
I could accomplish a lot, but would it be worth it? I'd would become a freak, almost be trapped. And, being a religious person, I think we're all going over to the other side anyway. Whether its a heaven or just some sort of "other realm". No-one really just dies, that my beliefs anyway.
This could do with being on the serious discussion board. It's worth discussing.

You'd end up as the ruler of the old people who are always saying "Things were so much better in my day!" or, "When I was a lad/girl I had to walk through a lake of lava to milk the cows in the morning. That was before I headed to school, which involved ..." You wouldn't keep track of things.
And of course you'd see everyone you love die and then have to go through a million trillion billion years without them, making new friends only to have them die, and if would just go on and on til the end of the world (which you'd have to go through) but you still wouldn't die there. You'd end up floating through space, not being able to breath, knowing your head ought to be exploding about now but unable to die forever and ever and ever.

No thanks.

Put like that, it sounds rather unappetizing Eloere! Personally, I cant decide. The arguments for either side both ring true. Ah well. I'm perpetually undecided on everything anyways, LMAO!

I agree with Eloere, I don't think I'd want to live forever. It would seem like a curse, watching others die and you'll live forever.

What about eternal youth? Are you going to chose eternal youth AND immortality?

Immortality in a cruel world? Well, depends on how it would work.

Immortal as in you just won't die ever, not even if the entire world is nuked? Well, that would be terrible wouldn't it?

Hmm... if I had someone to share it with, someone I loved maybe.

It rather depends, depends on the situation and with whom I would share.
An eternity of loneliness would suck.

Welcome to my world.

Wow, that would be awesome. No asking me twice. Loved ones dying would be hard, but you'd get used to it. By the time you've experienced all you want to on Earth, mankind will have reached plenty of other planets you could go to. The universe is infinite, time is infiite. Therefore there must be infinite things to do out there. You'd need to be immortal to do it all. What I wouldn't give...

Loved ones dying would be hard, but you'd get used to it.

I don't that reassuring at all Hippie, I mean, if you get used to them dying, surely that hardens your heart?

This is why I've come up with an alternate interpretation of Pug's immortality in the Riftwar Saga: he'll be used as an immortal pawn of the gods until he forgets how to love, then he'll be cast aside as inhuman and prone to heel-face-turn.

The temptation is there, but then it always is with power, so I'm going to say no.

We have rules and boundaries for a reason, and I am content to work within them.