Would you like to live to be 100 trillion years old?

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Would you like to live to be 100 trillion years old?

Yes.

But I mean my consciousness surviving that long, I assume the physical form will be upgraded.

For the time-being I have a plan for living a very long time. Since I studied computers the plan is expressed as an algorithm:

Inhale, Exhale, Repeat

No way. Not to be too maudlin but I don't even want this life and would rather it ended sooner than later.

Also, how would one fill one's time for that long? Wouldn't everything be old hat and boring?

Absolutely not. I've never understood people's obsession with immortality. If I live that long, everyone I love will die and I'll get sick of everything I enjoy and life will become boring. The world will change beyond anything recognizable today, and I already have a hard enough time handling today's technology I'm worried where I'll be in 50 years. And without death to worry about, I'll take procrastination to the extreme. What motivates me to live my life is knowing it's finite. Without that life has no meaning.

Given the continual improvement of medical technology, I'm hoping to make it to 2100. I'd be 95. That seems reasonable.

I'd rather live to be in my 90s like my great grandparents did.

As long as I was comfortable and happy, I'd want to live forever. In my old age, if anything I love life more than ever. At least so far. Must be a bummer outliving all your friends though, losing them all and having to keep making new ones. Unless they too lived forever. But think how many skills you could acquire, with all that time.

Wouldn't that mean I outlive the universe?

Would I be a human or cyborg?

No. As a matter of fact, if I died tomorrow, I’d be greatly relieved.

No. I'd like to know what happens in 100 years, 200 years, 300 years time sort of thing. But I don't think I'd want to hang around and watch it happen in real time. I just want the highlights.

I'm already noticing the cyclical nature of things, the way each generation discovers basically the same ideas and thinks they are new. That'd get really annoying after seeing it a few times.

Unless everyone else is also living long too. I'm interested in the idea of what sort of wisdom one could accrue in two or three lifetimes. I wonder if it plateaus ever.

Nope. I'm not even sure I want to live past my 60s. If there's even a world left by that time.

And what good is living to be old when your mind and body fall apart and people treat you like you're worthless? I already feel ancient because I know about stuff that happened in the 1990s. If I admit to knowing about something in the early 2000s I have to add "Yes, I'm old." like it's something to be ashamed of.

If I'm just as consistently healthier than just healthy or the very least the problem related to such is solvable, and unlikely permanently burdened by the nasty elements of living with a crappy body and mind, sure.

If not (if overcoming said impediments are flat out impossible), I'd rather cut my life short.

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that's a funny thing to think

I dunno really but if I was to choose I'd say no

I know my alien would defo say yes though but she comes from the future anyway

I wouldn’t want to.