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Say you could live any amount of years, but you had to fix a finite amount of time, and this is just normal living, you can be killed by diseases, accidents and injuries, what number would you pick? I think I'd pay about 1000 or so, unlike most people I think I could survive the death of my relatives (most of your older relatives will die in your regular lifetime anyway) and friends without too much emotional pain.

Shrykull wrote:Say you could live any amount of years, but you had to fix a finite amount of time, and this is just normal living, you can be killed by diseases, accidents and injuries, what number would you pick? I think I'd pay about 1000 or so, unlike most people I think I could survive the death of my relatives (most of your older relatives will die in your regular lifetime anyway) and friends without too much emotional pain.

1000 years? You taking the piss?

You would be bored shitless...there is only so many years of spending Christmas with the in-laws that I could stomach

150 years...tops...and even then that would probably be too long...I think we die within our timescale with good reason

Shrykull wrote:Say you could live any amount of years, but you had to fix a finite amount of time, and this is just normal living, you can be killed by diseases, accidents and injuries, what number would you pick? I think I'd pay about 1000 or so, unlike most people I think I could survive the death of my relatives (most of your older relatives will die in your regular lifetime anyway) and friends without too much emotional pain.

5000 years. I want to wait till we actually make contact. And if I grow bored, I can always kill myself.

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1 x 10^6 years. I want to see how much I can explore the galaxy in the time-frame.~Jason

I honestly am not sure what kind of time I would choose. If I could retain a proportional rate of aging, I might go for a long time like a millennium or more, but if not, I would likely keep a normal lifespan, if not actually shortened.

On the assumption that aging would progress proportionally, and I picked a lifetime of about 1500-2000 years, it would be somewhat hard for me to see my friends and family die as I lived on, and see this generation after generation, anyone I would get close to would simply wither and die in what would amount to a small fraction of my lifetime. Even worse is that likely after centuries I would forget those that I became close to, namely my parents and very close friends, and/or significant others. After a time it would take its toll, either by literally tearing apart my emotional stability and ultimately mind, or by my become cold toward the concept of death, and thus becoming cold and distant from the people of the world.

Though it would be immensely fascinating to see what humanity would do over the course of time equivalent to some of the longest-lived empires ever known on this world. What technologies, what changes would I see in society? What would I endure? What would I experience and do during 2 millennia of life?

It would be fascinating to say the least. And lonely, very lonely.

500 yrs. "Back in my day, we used keyboards! None of these newfangled mind-reading doohickies."

Ever since I was a kid, I always had this feeling that I'd die at 33. I'm 25 now. I might just stick with that. It's easier to be the one who leaves than to be the one left behind, and I don't really want to see how the human race continues to fuck up everything we touch. *shrugs*

I will most likely die at 40...and given that I'm 29...not that far off.

As for asome huge expanse of time...rather not, given I'd get bored rather quickly.

10^450 years. I wanna stay forever. Imagine all the stuff we will see later on!

I think a billion years would do nicely. And if I got hit by a bus tomorrow, oh well.

Probably about 750 years or so. I don't want to die before any of the people I care about do, I'd rather be the last one alive than to leave people behind, 200 years isnt long enough to get into the habit of learning new stuff, nor is it long enough to decide what to do with the extra time.

Anything over a couple centuries and you're likely to get run over by a car or some shit before your time is up.

4-5 billion years

SyntaxVorlon wrote:4-5 billion years

I wouldn't mind shooting for that myself as long as I don't spend a billion years or so drooling in a hospital.

900 billion billion years! Nah, not really. A few centuries would be cool though, it'd suck though if some new epoch of humanity came and everything was bitchin' and then i had to die.

Couplea days before the earth becomes uninhabitable. At least then I can see if we managed to get off this rock and become an inter-solar species.

500-1000 years. That way, I'll live long enough to see great technological advancements, as well as my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandkids, but not long enough to see some possible cataclysmic event. And, I'm only going to live that long if I'm going to be in good health for the majority of it. If I'm going to get a stroke at 90 and spend the rest of my life having people feeding me because I'm incapable of doing it, then no deal. Perhaps aging slower would be good, I wouldn't want to spend 425 years of my life without sex because of impotence.

i say i'll die when i die. i'm not going to bother saying there's a certain amount of years that we have and that's it. . .because, well, that's what the majority of humanity says, and most often they die around the time they believe they'll live to if something besides old age doesn't kill them first. or, for the morbidly curious you can go here

i want to see the space marines. so at least 40.000 years.

Since I can still die normally, I'll say a hundred million billion trillion years.

If i live past 50 it will be a miracle.

but if i could chose i'd say 20,000 years. Give or take some. Just to see whats gonna happen. Plus if the world blows up. Least i'd see it.

As long as possible, never if possible.

And I don't know why people bring up the thing about boredom. We had Unreal Tournament and Half Life, We had Max Payne and recently Max Payne 2, we had Halo. Soon we're having Halo 2, and Half Life 2.

Imagine the games we'll have in 1000 years. That's reason enough for me to want to live eternally.

Very hard to say. It would have to be AT LEAST a few hundred years, probably around 500. However I can't help but have the nagging feeling that even after say a 1000 years of life, that when the time to die is coming up I will be wishing I could have lived longer for whatever reason.

With this in mind, I would say I wish I could have the ability to live however long the universe/multiverse/whatever lasts, however I have the option of termination whenever I choose in case I really do get too bored or if something happens that makes life really really just not worth living anymore.

If its just normal living we still grow old and wrinkly right? I think i'd just set whatever the average for humans is. I mean no reason to trick death so i can live as a shriveled old man.

do i have to specify?

i mean, can't i live up until the point where i decide i've done everything i want to...


would be much more manageable.