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I'll start off with one, Being upset about a breakup that happened hundreds of years ago.

Edit 1:

  • Heath death of the universe, Death of the sun, etc, does not count. I feel like focusing on this is an overused point.

Edit 2:

  • Loneliness does not count. I feel like we all know immortality means you'll miss people and lose them.
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think you're undervaluing loneliness. Loneliness isn't just missing some one. Loneliness means there's no point in connecting with people because they will just die. Loneliness means that no one knows the depth of your condition because it isn't available to them. It means that as they change and face new obstacles, you'll be oblivious to all of that. You'll not only see them die, you'll see the vitality deep out of their pores as they age. All the while you'll never know what that means personally or feel that slow slipping.

Also, super weird that your example is a breakup and people dying is something not worth registering.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I kinda disagree with you. Why would it be different from now? We know that people will die.

I've had good friends pass away at different times, and it hurts but eventually, I move on.

My only exception, with the knowledge I have today, is that I wouldn't have any kids. That attachment is straight up reptilian brain and that would be way too hard. Otherwise, it would be okay.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's the difference between knowing you'll grow and graduate together with your classmates vs knowing you're only going to see them for that one month before you move away.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

outlasting humanity and all its trappings

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Either "Boredom: After some time you have seen basically everything." or "Can't keep up: The world changes so fast, and I'm, stuck in a mindset I acquired in 1543".

And: Bureaucratic nightmare. "We have you on file as being born in 1924, but you don't really look like a centennial. Can I see your passport instead of that of your great-grandfather, please?"

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I cannot connect to the boredom one at all. Are there books, video games, stone tablets, cool rocks to look at? Outta here with that boredom nonsense.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Repeated surgical corrections for your ever growing earlobes

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

If everyone gets to be immortal, imagine never being able to get rid of dictators. Putin's 600th won election.

People in the future wouldn't be allowed to have children, Earth will be filled to the brim with very old people and very few new ideas.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I suppose it depends on the rules of this specfic immortality. As someone who lives with chronic pain that literally never feels physically comfortable in any position, immortality sounds like a cruel joke. Not that I'm suicidal or eager to die, but the fact that it would progressively get worse and worse without any sort of end is.... horrorific.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

If it's the realistic kind where you just don't age, the statistical certainty that you'll eventually die in an accident, or to war or murder. Your odds of getting to the heat death of the universe without making backups is pretty slim.

If it's the kind where you're indestructible, you're highly likely to encounter someone who tries to bury you alive in a subduction zone eventually, because humans are like that, and then you get to spend eternity slowly moving into the scorching mantle.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

At least I won't be a snail in a metal ball full of salt.

EDOT: Typo, snail <-> small

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Is this a quote from something? I'm OOTL.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/immortal-snail

One of the solutions was to put it in a giant metal ball and throw it into the sun or something. The salt was just out of spite.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Oof, that was a hard one. Autocorrect strikes again.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would hope to get realllly good in avoding people who'd put me in a subduction zone ๐Ÿ˜ญ

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It would be an obsession of mine, if I was cursed with the inability to die under any level of duress.

I'm not saying it's common, but punishment by live burial is a thing, and billions of years is an awful lot of human history.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The death of the sun will then eventually set you free into the gravity well of the sun where you'll live burning hot untill heat death of the universe. What to do after that is anyone's guess

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well, depends. The Earth is actually right near the edge of where the sun will expand to, so there's a chance the scorched glob that used to be Earth will stay in orbit. Either way, it will still be hot for a while, and you're ultimately stuck in something solid - be it a dead planet or a white dwarf.

There is such a thing as merciful death; it would not be good to be cut off from it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How much more annoying the (much) younger generations would be.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, they always gloss over how you'd have a very noticeable accent within a couple hundred years, and would straight up be using a second language within a thousand.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As if peoples accents and vocabularies don't grow and change over time?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Accents are at least somewhat fixed. Haven't you noticed old people sound a certain way? Ditto for grammar - hedging with "like" isn't something I'd ever hear an elder do where I live, and the "because noun" shortening sounds straight up incorrect to them, rather than just cute.

Vocabulary can grow, though. Sometimes it doesn't, but that seems to be mostly down to old people not wanting to learn. Unfortunately new vocabulary is relatively minor in the evolution of most languages - a Russian word and an English word will often descend directly from the same 3000BC proto-Indo-European root, although they might now have drifted to mean different things.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Getting trapped under something for a few thousand years.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

The longer, the worse it is, not because of how bored you'd be, but the knowledge that you'd be more and more out of touch if ever found.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

People, corporations, and other entities would over time gather more data about you. There's always some kind of information footprint that you leave behind. And you'd stand out from other humans by the way you talk (i.e. using slang from 200 years ago, and speaking about historic stuff with details that the general public is not aware of) and other traits, which makes you traceable.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

You'd procrastinate things for 100s of years, until at one point you're simply no longer able to do it. Wanted to domesticate a saber-tooth cat some day? Too bad, they're extinct now. Wanted to visit the baths in ancient Rome? Well, it is not the same Rome anymore, and all the baths' floors are cold.

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The rest of humanity will eventually evolve into something you don't recognize and can never be part of.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

My thought. In 500M years, you would be like the slime that crawled out of the oceans to the dominant life.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Neanderthals wanted to live forever and now we have bigfoot.

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