Saturday, December 19, 2009

Immortality and/or great longevity

Immortality

The thing about IMMORTALITY that has always struck me is that it is so possible it’s scary to alot of people.
Many would not want to be immortal they think it would be lonely and don’t want to be young and vibrate as their love ones age and die.
Why do I say it’s possible? Many people think there are as the saying goes, "a million ways to die."

This is not true. Actually if you look at it scientifically there is only three ways to kill someone.

TRAUMA - yes there are many, many ways to induce trauma on someone body. Yet the act of creating trauma is the same. Doing intense damage to the body.

ILLNESS - which in some ways creates trauma to the body as well. Trauma created from foreign bodies whether they are viral, bacterial, or chemical inside the body.

AGE - Growing old is a form of trauma that happens over time because the body can’t regenerate the copied cells. People simply wear out.
I once read somewhere however that when we reach 95 years of age the body stops ageing. Then after that people die simply from the damage that had already accrued or from a trauma.

That is why on highlander the series the idea that only cutting off the head could kill them always worked for me. It was a trauma so severe how could it be healed. Yet the other traumas seem to me like they could be healed and should be.

However when you really think about most people that claim to not want immortality are simply dishonest. Most of these individual want to believe or do in an afterlife. In which the soul is everlasting. So why do they believe in immortality in that form but not physical? Simple truth they believe that reality tells them it is impossible. Nothing tells them that the soul is impossible so they can take it on faith. Also many believe life is “suffering” while the after life will be “paradise”. They don’t want to be immortal in a world of suffering.
The logic seems very flawed.
Many say they don’t want to be immortal if their family and friends will die around them and they will be alone.
Why can’t they make new friends, new family? Or why can’t they be immortal too in this scenario?

Truth is everyone wants to be immortal. Or at the least have great Longevity.
However I do believe that most people or the average person would not want to live for more than a couple hundred years. I believe the emotional ramification of any scenario would simply take its toll eventually.

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