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Marty L asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 1 decade ago

If you could live forever, would you and why?

Can you do better than this answer given by Miss Alabama?:

'I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever,'

-- Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest .

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Yes, to watch over mankind in terms of philosophical influence.

  • 1 decade ago

    I would never want to live forever cause there would be no excitement in life. Knowing you could never die would take away those things that you do for a thrill in life. The immortal life is not what most people think it would be. never getting old never being able to fall in love cause you wouldn't age. Never able to really have kids and a normal life, cause inorder to live forever you would have to not age. If you can't age then you would loose out on everything that people live for. There for I would never want to live forever cause it would not trully be living. It would be walking and endless cycle of a boring so called life.

  • 1 decade ago

    I wouldn't because I would feel like I don't really have a purpose in this life. If I am a good person or if I am a bad person wouldn't matter because I would never die. Also, it would take that thrill out of living.

    And I don't think I would be able to handle seeing all my loved ones pass, while I stay the same.

  • 1 decade ago

    Don't forget Miss India from Miss Universe X3

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  • 1 decade ago

    I agree with Miss Alabama.

  • M G
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Yes, I'd live forever to correct wrongs,

    share knowledge, help generations

    to come be better, stronger.

    I'd be the Ambassador for a better

    world.

  • 1 decade ago

    if i had that option i would probably not live forever, unless other people would accompany in my eternal life. i think it would be incredibly hard to see the passing of loved ones while i just stayed as a constant. i think that while it would be interesting to see all the changes which took place in society, it would be disorienting and not a good life to live.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Only if I could look like a 23 y/o then yes. I would like to see what the world is like in the future.

    I wish time portals were real...

  • 1 decade ago

    i most probebly wouldn't, i would find life meaningless after all my family and friends were gone, after a few hundred years life would be boring, would i look the same? or feel as old as I truely am? i think i'd get tired of eternal life, plus when we wreck this world i wouldn't like to be a group of particles floating around in space :P

    =]

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    yes so i could eat more. what in the world was Alabama talking about?

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