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Old 07-05-2011, 12:50 AM
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BAZINGA! I don't want to live that long.
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Old 07-05-2011, 01:18 AM
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There's a cracked.com article about why immortality would be worse than death. Not linking since it has liberal use of profanity, but it boils down to

1: You'd be behind evolution
2: Your brain wouldn't be able to keep up with everyone else since it'd be too clogged with information you can't erase
3: Time speeds up until you're insane
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Old 07-05-2011, 01:59 AM
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A vegetable with perfectly functioning body?

No thanks.

Until the cure for mental ilnesses and other brain related problems is found, there's no point in my mind that makes such efforts feasible.

Anyone who has witnessed a slowly deteriorating mind in a perfectly functioning body can see what is likely to happen. IME it ain't pretty.

We have already crossed the natural " best before" date of a human body with modern medicine, and where has that gotten us?

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Dudes, I want to be immortal!!
I'll drink human blood and getting all the chicks with a single look at them, i'll be up all night long in clubs and parties and at the sunrise, I'll get back home, a great mansion, in my collector car ...
But I am still not a vampire .... :'(
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i think we should all just Logan's Run it tbh.

also we could wear natty 1-piece dress type things.
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Old 07-05-2011, 07:37 AM
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I really doubt it will happen. And i dont hope it will. Can you imagine this planete with 500billion greedy bastards like us?
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Old 07-05-2011, 07:51 AM
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I really doubt it will happen. And i dont hope it will. Can you imagine this planete with 500billion greedy bastards like us?
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A cure for aging would be wonderful. Imagine how fun unemployment, food shortages, overpopulation issues would be if no one died!
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I really doubt it will happen. And i dont hope it will. Can you imagine this planete with 500billion greedy bastards like us?
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I'd like to live forever. That's about how long it would take for me to become a good "slapper".
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I would probably get sick of life by 1000 years old.
Think of all the girls though....
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