Won't you participate in my experiment please?

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Would you choose to live forever?

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PurestAmbrosia” “Me personally? If I am attracted to an older individual enough to have them as a life partner, chances are it isn't/wasn't because of their looks... If you love someone you'll find them beautiful under any condition, would the age factor average into the equation? for me personally no. If you are going to live X number of yrs, you'll acquire the wisdom whether or not the yrs ravage your face so, why take a chance and have something along the way rob you of your mortality-- fact is we aren't guranteed tomorrow to be guaranteed twenty, thirty yrs from now...”

Just to make it clear, I was addressing the burying of a spouse or a child and what a person might do to avoid that.
 
jd7 said:
Just to make it clear, I was addressing the burying of a spouse or a child and what a person might do to avoid that.
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In real life there is no avoidance as death is truly indiscriminate.. as pertains to the 'experiment' then I have no idea...

cheers
 
Well, it sounds like this new "lease on life" is only good for 10 years at a time anyway. So, why not give it a shot? Especially if it can be done in a way that maintains my present health (you did say no more celluar aging), not just prolongs the final dying process. It sounds like I still have to avoid falling off ladders and stepping in front of trucks, so I still doubt I would live forever, you have no idea the trouble I can get myself in if given enough time. And I suppose I could take the injection every 20 years and double my lifespan by aging, but only every other decade. I've sort of had a wish for the last couple of years that I could live to 150 as there is so much more living I am interested in than I think I am likely to cram in if I can't extend it some. And just think how having a little more perspective might change some of the rash decisions made by our political leaders. Yeah, sign me up. As you said, I can always quit taking the shots later.
 
I voted "wait and see," almost out of instinct because I would doubt that there were no harmful side effects.

But thinking more about it, I'm inclined to agree with Grace Seeker.

I don't think I could get bored living so long as human society keeps going along with me. History is so fascinating, and I think our world is becoming more and more fascinating as time goes on and the ideas our species generates become more complicated and beautiful.

I sometimes think about how people from 500 years ago would view our earth today. Most people from the middle-ages would think our world is literally full of magic. Television and music that plays just in your ears from little tablets would be like sorcery. Maybe some people would be frightened, but I think I'd be amazed and curious.

I'm really eager to see what our world is going to look like 50, 100, and hopefully 1,000 years from now (assuming we don't blow ourselves up).

I'm also NOT looking forward to the pain and mental deterioration associated with the physical process of aging.

Honestly, my main concern with this concept of living forever would be the possibility that I would become corrupt with the power I would gain from immortality. I really believe that power almost inevitably corrupts, and living forever would give me power simply by the fact that I'd be able to accumulate so much more knowledge than other people. But if there were lots of other immortals, that wouldn't be such a big deal.

Just as long as I had the option to stop taking the pills and make myself mortal—you never know what's going to happen!
 
Salam Alaikum:

Definitely not! Imagine having to watch all your friends and family die? :cry:

Ok, I just realized I didn't read the first post properly. ooopppsssyyyy lol If I could take a shot every 10 years, hmmmm, ok, might try that for awhile, but only as long as I'm healthy and the family members aren't dropping off, because I couldn't deal with that.

Very interesting poll, sis!!

Wasalam,
Hana
 
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snakelegs said:
desert, animals, clouds, plants, mountains, ocean, insects, spider webs, the moon the list can go on forever....
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These are the blessings of the lord :D
can be summed perfectly in suret ar-rahman

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not my fav recitation, but translated :coolious:


peace!
 
PurestAmbrosia said:
These are the blessings of the lord :D
can be summed perfectly in suret ar-rahman
not my fav recitation, but translated :coolious:
peace!
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thanks! this is probably the thing i like the best in the qur'an - how god is constantly reminding you to reflect on things in nature as his signs. it is hard to deny god when you are surrounded by natural beauty.
 
I know what you mean, and it is part of the reason I agree with your point of view.. Life is beautiful, look at all these blessings, but I also look forward to what God promised his righteous servants.. so I voted
No who wants to live forever, partially because, It would be difficult to accumulate good deeds rather than bad ones living for so long, sort of like when you didn't prepare very well for an exam, and every time you ask for an extension you receive it but don't use the time wisely out of complacency and laxity. .. then you never feel ready, no matter what you do, all your 'deeds' are so scattered about that it doesn't hold its weight, and when the day finally comes for whatever reason not only is one filled with regret but keeps wishing for another extension. It is our mortality that both gives us and takes away from our happiness, it is the reminder, and it is the ticking of the clock. I don't think we can freeze time, and I don't think we can interfere with causality.. but somewhere deep inside we all wish for immortality by different laws and different standards one that is somehow earned... and we can't than conceive of that on this plane.

peace
 
The prophet said that this world is like a prison for Muslims. I would witness war and suffering for sooo long that eventually I would envy the dead. Allah appointed a set time for us so that we appreciate the small duration of life we are given. In my opinion, an analogy could be made to having infinite money, you would stop appreciating it and waste it away.
 
i think- i know... no matter what people create these days... to try to make someone live longer.. allah has already written there day... who knows... they might invent something to make someone live forever, the people useing it might die the second they use it... might live longer than everyone else, or might die before....allahu alim... these are like those poeple trying to build a time machine....i heard
 
oh well.. go ahead and try to live forever... U WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO... judgement day? hellooo?? remmeber.... yea... plus most of the sighns of judgement day are present... so go ahead and try to live ....'forever'

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