Clocks [They/Them]@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 9 hours agoWhat are some downsides to immortality that most don't think of?message-squaremessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up164arrow-down1message-squareWhat are some downsides to immortality that most don't think of?Clocks [They/Them]@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 9 hours agomessage-square70fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareshoulderoforion@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up28arrow-down1·9 hours agoimmortality doesn’t guarantee perpetual health, you’re alive, but so broken and sick you wish you could die, but you can’t
minus-squareToday@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-26 hours agoMy knees hurt already. I can’t imagine living with constant aging forever until you’re just a crumpled pile on the ground and then it still goes on.
minus-square50MYT@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up8·7 hours agoYeah this answer. Imagine being immortal and you get stuck somewhere. Like in a giant land slide.
minus-squareIoughttamow@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 hours agoAlive, but stuck in nutty putty cave for eternity
minus-squareDave.@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 hours ago“I have no mouth and I must scream” could end up being a plausible way to spend eternity.
minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoBrandon Sanderson wrote a novel about this.
immortality doesn’t guarantee perpetual health, you’re alive, but so broken and sick you wish you could die, but you can’t
My knees hurt already. I can’t imagine living with constant aging forever until you’re just a crumpled pile on the ground and then it still goes on.
Yeah this answer.
Imagine being immortal and you get stuck somewhere.
Like in a giant land slide.
Alive, but stuck in nutty putty cave for eternity
“I have no mouth and I must scream” could end up being a plausible way to spend eternity.
Brandon Sanderson wrote a novel about this.