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What are some downsides to immortality that most don't think of? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

Idk id be super depressed if I was able to experience my family, friends, family's children, and so on die.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

outlasting humanity and all its trappings

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

i think that experiencing all the things & people i care about would be the worst of it.

either that or seeing us repeat history over and over again as a society complete with all of the indifferent cruelties it entails and studying it, but ignoring it anyways

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

All the people trying to dissect you for science.

[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Everyone else in your life that isn't immoral (if you're the only one who is) dies eventually, so every time you make a friend or start a family, you do so knowing that you will have to watch them all die someday.

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