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

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 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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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

outlasting humanity and all its trappings

[–] markstos@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Watching history repeat itself.

[–] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

being alive

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

As OP mentioned, a lot of replies focus on loss, that friends will inevitably die and objects will break........ we already face that reality with regular life! That's hardly a downside of immortality itself.

[–] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 1 points 2 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.

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Wow you're a real smart one, nobody has ever thought about that. Read the Question in the title again.

[–] AbeilleVegane@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 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

[–] classic@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago

Man, you took it too real too quick

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