R&S: Everybody dies someday, it's pretty scary?

I heard about the (potentially) immortal jellyfish, and they're pretty awesome. The reality is that most of them get eaten before they're more than a few years old.

Clonal trees probably do better than any other life, with some now knocking on for 10,000 years old.

Although it may work for the jellyfish, I'm personally not sure I could go through puberty again. ugh!

I don't think religions would change all that much. For most believers, a future life in paradise is still more of a draw than eternal life in this one. I wonder if that's why so many of them hold back from really living in this life, because they think there's another one waiting for them beyond the grave.

I would say the joke's on them, but that would be a pretty sad punchline!

It's a pretty interesting concept.

You want a good (fictional) book on the topic, try "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" byCory Doctorow

There needs to be death to support life.

With the lack of technology we have right now, we couldn't populate other planets, or under water, so there would be too many people and animals using up the resources we need to survive.

It can be scary, we're all programmed to fear death, but we just have to accept it is a part of life.

People would be influenced to think differently. Minds are changing naturally in time as time goes on.

I think people would favor religion because people are social beings but casually they would agree there really is not a god as said in a religious text like the bible.

There is no logical reason to fear death. We were non-existent for millions of years before we were born and we'll be non-existent for millions of years after we die.

It only becomes scary when one falls for the superstitions of religion, or desires to live forever.

The stark reality is every person who was and is born on this planet Earth will live for ever weather in HELL or in Heaven!!!!!!!

If you end up in HELL, well yes without a doubt it would be pretty scary!!!!!!! On the other hand ending up in Heaven will be the most awesome thing!!!!!!! And the good part is you will enjoy it for ever!!!!!!!

Stopping aging is as simple as finding a way of stopping our telemeres from being lopped off during cell division.

In any case, immortality would be hell. And, if the universe doesn't have a terminal point for its temporal continuum (I suspect it does/will), it will eventually suffer from heat death. There is an end to all things.

Well, we do live on, in a way. Our RNA endures unless we're cremated and it's the source of memory.

I would refuse the serum.

I'm looking for something new and different in the world to come.