Discussion You find out you're immortal, what do you do?

[Ratherbeskinny]

What would you do if it turned out you're immortal? Nothing, literally nothing, can kill you. When you try to kill yourself, you somehow magically go back 5 minutes before you started your attempt - every single time. What would you do?

 

[Nem]

I'd take out a few drsTo dinner of course!
peace/hugs

 

[MisanthropicLycan]

I would become a badass vampire hunter.

 

[Brick In The Wall]

Bill Murray in Groundhog Day for me.

 

[Soulless_Angel]

Wow that's a question, you could try and take over the world but you could end up locked up for life. Which kinda counteracts the point of the question.
Maybe invest in money that you know at some point would mean something, damn this is complicated

 

[MeltingHeart]

Kinda sounds like hell to me, would you stay the same age/ look like now in this imagined scenario? This kind of makes me think of those cases of people that reach the age of 100+ with no health problems as such- except for all the general ailments of very old age- and they just want to die-there was that guy who was like 104 and he went to Exit international- none of his friends, wife, siblings were still alive - he was just a bit tired and bored of life in the end- he said something like ar 104-havent i earnt the right the end my life by now?! it was simply going on too damn long for him!

 

[Astral316]

I'd have an eternal panic attack.

 

[TimeToBiteTheDust]

I'd drink SN everyday

 

[Essence]

Bill Murray in Groundhog Day for me.

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Great movie

 

[lotus11]

this is a great question! worst news ever! but I guess that the first thing I would do it try to find a way to get loads and loads of money. It doesn't buy happiness but it would buy you some sort of control in your own life. As well as the ability to maybe change location and identity from time to time

 

[Essence]

I would deal to the 'assholes of this planet' and help the good and worthy ones.

 

[Mr2005]

I would sue "The immortal" John Hancock

 

[JimFord99]

I would go insane, unable to die, .... hell no.

 

[Numbtopain97]

Panic. I'm gonna have to experience the death of my friends, my family, anyone I have or ever will care about. And eventually all of humanity will die and the earth will deteriorate and I'd still be alive... Floating all by myself in space.

 

[CarefulWithThatAxe]

That would be absolute torture not being able to escape this rotten life.

 

[LivingToLong]

Bill Murray in Groundhog Day for me.

We think along the same lines. I'd learn to play the piano, and to ice sculpt.

 

[JoeFailure]

If you get older it sucks. If you could stay in your 20's/30's with no mental/physical health issues it would be cool.

But in this exact physical world that's so unfair and cruel, that would be awful.

 

[SuicidalSymphonies]

I never want to be immortal. Seeing everyone I care for die around me would be horrible. That's unfortunately not something I could get desensitized to. My own children, grandchildren, the entire next generations. Plus, I'd have to live through when the Earth has finally had enough. Sounds "awesome".

As for the question itself: I'd be eternally miserable. Probably sleep all day. Maybe kill some people that really hurt me. I dunno.

 

[burnedCookie]

I'd probably end up like this thousands years old guy. Angry, sleeping my immortality away, hating almost everyone and playing bingo with old people.

 

[262653]

I would become a badass vampire hunter.

Omg yes, nothing like hunting down those unholy creatures of the night, wherever they are lurking, as a human. I'm sightly afraid of getting captured and used as an endless source of blood supply... I would also need to have poisonous blood, or sanctified...

Damn I love fantasizing about extraordinary powers!

 

[detached]

I'd probably start doing things that I wouldn't do normally. Knowing that I'll never die and am likely to forget my mistakes in a few 100 years, would maybe make me care less than I do now. But what when this earth becomes inhabitable? What if one day earth gets sucked in a black hole? What if one day there'd be no air left to breathe? Would I have to deal with the pain of not being able to breathe? Would I just constantly get in this loop of having air for 5 minutes, having no air, and then magically go back in time only to get air for another 5 minutes before losing my breath again? Would my body learn to adapt to the temperature changes and loss of oxygen? Would I just end up as a thing in the middle of nowhere?

 

[Lethe]

I would find an abandoned castle in Romania somewhere, sit in the throne room with my chin rested in my hand and count the floor tiles or something.

 

[SawItOnce]

I would allow myself to go insane and to completely dettach, I wouldn't hold this back anymore.

 

[detached]

I would allow myself to go insane and to completely dettach, I wouldn't hold this back anymore.

Same here. It'd just be pointless when you won't ever die anyway

 

[SawItOnce]

I'd probably start doing things that I wouldn't do normally. Knowing that I'll never die and am likely to forget my mistakes in a few 100 years, would maybe make me care less than I do now. But what when this earth becomes inhabitable? What if one day earth gets sucked in a black hole? What if one day there'd be no air left to breathe? Would I have to deal with the pain of not being able to breathe? Would I just constantly get in this loop of having air for 5 minutes, having no air, and then magically go back in time only to get air for another 5 minutes before losing my breath again? Would my body learn to adapt to the temperature changes and loss of oxygen? Would I just end up as a thing in the middle of nowhere?

Shit...

This question is scary as fuck. Made me see my life as bearable, even if miserable for another 50 years, it would be heaven next to an infinity of anything.

 

[Meant2Die]

Immortal? Amazing! I assume my health would be at 100% all the time then? Wow so many things to do, I would do all the things I always wanted but was scared to. first, I'd rob a rich BAD guy to get money for survival and travel, bc I love to travel. I'd probably overindulge in everything first like bc I've always kinda stopped myself in real life from even having more than a few drinks bc I was scared of getting sick from it or eating too many cookies. I might work at night as a vigilante stopping crime. I'd always stand up for people in situations where I saw they were being bullied or treated unfairly. I would also educated myself in a lot of fields and try to work as a consultant trying to help the human race in raising its vibration from all different angles. People need to understand we are all here together, we are all connected, everything we do affects others from the most minute glance at a stranger passing by to being a ruler of a country. We all need to learn to be more accepting, loving, compassionate, forgiving. I would love to be a part of brining the global society to that point. Not to mention to be able and sit back and see the kind of technological advancement we will be able to accomplish over the years... astounding. Just look at how life for humans has changed from the 1800s to now, now fast forward only 200 years... damn. I've always been acutely interested in the human experience and been very grateful for all the good experiences that seemed unlikely. Being able to be immortal and probably living through EVERY SCENARIO life could offer.. I'm mean that's literally what I believe is the purpose of our souls and incarnation (yes I'm the nerd who believes in all that stuff).

 

[Essence]

Omg yes, nothing like hunting down those unholy creatures of the night, wherever they are lurking, as a human. I'm sightly afraid of getting captured and used as an endless source of blood supply... I would also need to have poisonous blood, or sanctified...

Damn I love fantasizing about extraordinary powers!

Same! One things for sure, be it a curse or a blessing, the imagination capabilities of the human brain sure is something to behold. The ability to desire and want, yet never have....... the thoughts of destruction and torment, to never find relief....

Immortal? Amazing! I assume my health would be at 100% all the time then? Wow so many things to do, I would do all the things I always wanted but was scared to. first, I'd rob a rich BAD guy to get money for survival and travel, bc I love to travel. I'd probably overindulge in everything first like bc I've always kinda stopped myself in real life from even having more than a few drinks bc I was scared of getting sick from it or eating too many cookies. I might work at night as a vigilante stopping crime. I'd always stand up for people in situations where I saw they were being bullied or treated unfairly. I would also educated myself in a lot of fields and try to work as a consultant trying to help the human race in raising its vibration from all different angles. People need to understand we are all here together, we are all connected, everything we do affects others from the most minute glance at a stranger passing by to being a ruler of a country. We all need to learn to be more accepting, loving, compassionate, forgiving. I would love to be a part of brining the global society to that point. Not to mention to be able and sit back and see the kind of technological advancement we will be able to accomplish over the years... astounding. Just look at how life for humans has changed from the 1800s to now, now fast forward only 200 years... damn. I've always been acutely interested in the human experience and been very grateful for all the good experiences that seemed unlikely. Being able to be immortal and probably living through EVERY SCENARIO life could offer.. I'm mean that's literally what I believe is the purpose of our souls and incarnation (yes I'm the nerd who believes in all that stuff).

Wonderful portrayal

 

[Sensei]

What a bloody nightmare. Well, I guess I would try to make the best of the situation. For starters, I would make bets with strangers: "I bet I can shoot myself in the head and survive." Then I would travel to all corners of the world, learn all languages worth learning, read all the books I've never had time to read, write the longest diary in history, and weep until the end of time.

 

[SawItOnce]

I would find an abandoned castle in Romania somewhere, sit in the throne room with my chin rested in my hand and count the floor tiles or something.

This seems to me so E.A.Poe :) I've read the guy only a little, so maybe I'm off here, but this is like my subconscious translation of him.

I imagine artistic people in general would take this differently, that they would channel their panic/madness somehow.

If I manage to not dettach bc of panic from the perspective of endless pain, I believe only killing people would bear any curiosity to me. To be more precise, not the killing, but choosing who to kill. Since nobody would deserve it, it would be interesting to see in what way I would try to "balance" the society.

What a bloody nightmare. Well, I guess I would try to make the best of the situation. For starters, I would make bets with strangers: "I bet I can shoot myself in the head and survive." Then I would travel to all corners of the world, learn all languages worth learning, read all the books I've never had time to read, write the longest diary in history, and weep until the end of time.

Reading this I thought 'This is an immortal company that my puny immortal person would be relieved to have around'. Even if not really physically close, just to know that somewhere there this person is wandering about, I would feel paralleled and soothed. Well, to some extent...

 

[Nothingfromsomething]

Immortality would be a existential nightmare for me. Sure at first I could use it to my advantage, might even make me want to live for a few more years. But love is important to me, I'm not comfortable being single, I never have been. Meaning I'd have to choose either finding someone then losing them, which is what finally brought me to to this forum. Or, I'd have shield my heart and stay single... The second the novelty wore off, I'd probably end the world. Be all like "well if bullets don't kill me lets try every nuke at once!"

Me being immortal would be bad...for everyone lol