Many people would kill in order to achieve immortality in their physical bodies. Now, I’m not talking about afterlife, heaven, etc.. but just to be able to stay perpetually young and essentially unable to die or be killed in your human physical body.
I did some thinking about that the other day and made some interested realizations. Want to hear?
First of all, I don’t think anybody is really happy about dying at any age. I don’t think a person would be any happier about dying at the age of 1,000,000 than at the age of 60.
But lets assume this immortal transformation of your human body was possible. What would life be like? Well, I assume you’d probably live a few million or billion years on the earth. You’d probably be able to rise to power during that time and rule the place. It is possible even that humans might be able to colonize other worlds during that time, who knows.
The trouble is, the Sun is eventually going to go supernova and take this earth with it. If you’re still here then you will be ejected out into the galaxy in the cold vacuum of space for thousands, millions, or billons of years. You’re going to be cold, uncomfortable, and bored. Eventually your body would be attracted to a star by its gravitational pull. You’ll be pulled into the corona where you will essentially “burn in hell” for several billion years until that star goes supernova too. Then the whole process will repeat itself. After many trillions of years, the sky will start going dark as entropy takes over and all of the energy in the universe is exhausted. Stars will sart burning out and the universe will become cold and black, no heat or light anywhere.. and it will stay that way for the rest of eternity. What are you going to be doing during this time?
suddenly.. immortality in a human body doesn’t sound so attractive..
Thats really dark. But you bring up some interesting points. The only way it would work is if you were like the “star baby” or something similar to the book “2001″, where one of the astronauts gets his mind transferred to a body of energy and can travel at the speed of light. In this way, he’s able to travel the universe and not be held captive by anything except presumably black holes, which light can’t escape.
Even still, unless you are growing and changing, boredom would set in. This is the theme of many vampire novels and films. The vampires are immortal, but they are unhappy because among other things, they are bored with their unending existence and lack of change.
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