If you had the ability, would you try to get surgery to live forever?

[Summer Breeze 2,529]

absolutely not, the thought of living forever on this earth terrifies me. I love life but I'm glad that it's headed somewhere definitive, I like the idea that it will end some day because it gives me a reason to live but also to not be too scared of what the future may hold. 

[Clawdeen 19,697]

No. I don't want to be stuck paying bills and working forever lol.

[Treeglow Flicker 14,208]

Not through surgical means.

But if I'm supposed to live forever, then I won't complain. But there would have to be rules and boundaries between myself and the mortal folk.

[Dreambiscuit 11,031]

I absolutely would NOT get surgery to live forever. The only reason I would get surgery is if I needed to correct something that would unnaturally shorten my life. I would want to live long enough to take care of my family, but otherwise I see no need to go on endlessly in this earthly existence; there isn’t enough on this wee planet to interest me for the long haul.

[Snoopy Fan 7,415]

No, definitely not, absolutely not.

[ZiggWheelsManning 13,002]

If the prophecies in my head saying "Become the First" point to this, I surely would.  

[KPackratt 643]

I probably would, because I'd like to see what the distant future would be like and the thought of knowing that I have a finite lifespan petrifies me.

[Night Sky 830]

Docter Eldon Tyrell sayz, "The facts of life..."

You'd need several surgeries to live forever, perhaps regular surgeries...and there is just a question of how many of those a body can take...or at one point is it not the original body anymore.

Anyway, sooner or later, your brain would run out of space. It would take a long time but it would happen. It would be falling apart for a dozen other reasons. Fixing that isn't surgery, to fix those issues, you'd need magic so powerful that surgery would be unnecessary. 

We don't know what happens at that point. Do old memories get overwritten by new ones? Are you no longer capable of forming original thoughts? None of this is gonna be anything you'd want any part of trying to weather.

[Iforgotmybrain 6,821]

I would, but the robot brain transplant thing definitely has drawbacks which I kinda yapped about in a blog post. Best case scenario it’s probably more like living a couple hundred years rather than living forever. Still I’d definitely take a couple hundred good years, give me that fantasy elf lifespan.

[ComanderZhabikKlavik 4,339]

I would do it even though the body of a machine will not give eternal life, everything comes to an end and even the Universe will die someday. I would prefer to be a machine.

[Raskolnikov 1,514]

No, the thought of being left alone with everyone I knew having died is already enough to terrorise me. I already have excruciatingly tremendous difficulty dealing with multiple forms of loss so eternal life would be more akin to extreme psychological torture to me.

Edited May 3 by Raskolnikov

[Dawnshine Wonder 2,679]

No, I'd much rather live in the fantasy of my MLP FIM fanfic still. At least then, if I earned it, I would eventually reunite with ancestors in Nirvana after the rebirth cycles stopped. Buddhist tradition is also mythology, reincarnation is not scientifically proven either, however I would not want to live forever in this terrible universe. Outliving everybody I've ever known would become torture after a while, only to then watch the universe slowly destroy itself by entropy and then be wiped out with it. Depending on the technology, space exploration may be an option but even then, there are hardships which would eat away at my psyche for too long.

 

 

[Casey Pones 121]

I don't really want to answer the OP's question. But I would like to share some interesting thoughts someone else has made on this topic.

The YouTube channel Tale Foundry analyses stories along with common/interesting ideas that come up in stories. In this video they analyse a common idea that crops up in our era's stories and seems to be held by many people... that immortality would be a curse. But they put forward an interesting opinion about why that is.

Is it that immortality is horrible? Or is it just sour grapes?

 

Edited May 6 by Casey Pones