You have been given a choice to become immortal. Would you?

Discuss the February 2017 Book of the Month, The Diary of an Immortal by David J Castello.
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No. I wouldn't want to be immortal. I'd have to get use to the fact that I would out live everyone I knew and being immortal doesn't mean your body is invincible. What if I lose my hands? I won't have hands for as long as I live. What if I got trapped under a building and no one is around to save me for years?
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That depends on weather that immortality comes with a clause. If I were immortal, but not eternally young that'd suck. You'd just get older and older and older until your body decayed in to nothingness and you were but a raspy voice on the wind.
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Maybe I would, maybe I wouldn't. I guess you wouldn't really appreciate life to the fullest if you were immortal. On one hand, you would have infinite time at your hands but on the other hand you would get bored of everything after a while.
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If I were given a chance to become immortal, I would like to take that chance because being immortal is not that bad. Its gonna be so fun to live in this wonderful world forever. It depends on you who you want to be . If you choose to be bad or good, then so be it.
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first what is immortal?: the ability to live forever live. if i am to be that not a bad thing because i would essentially gain as much education both formal and informal ...............
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I would if I get to keep my young body
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Well...not really certain I would want to be immortal. It seems as the times change and the world advances with new rules, new technology, newer challenges one must adapt to, would be more challenging than most humans could handle.
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I don't think I would choose immortality because it would make life very monotonous and boring if life was stuck at one point. I would prefer slow ageing instead of immortality if that was possible. That would be supernatural without losing the extra time I get to read books.
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Even if I am given a chance to become an immortal, I would not become one. I don't want to lose my loved ones and left alone on the planet.
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There alot of downsides to immortality, you get to watch your entire family, friends, people you associate with die and move through the stages of life without you. For me that would be the hardest thing. To live without my family. So no...i wouldn't choose immortality.
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Yes, there is so much you could do to help the world by being immortal. Plus, I have always been interested in seeing what the future will be like a few hundred years from now :)
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I don't think I would want to be an immortal, it take out meaning of certain events in your life because you can just do it again in a couple of 100 years. Life would get dull eventually.
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I don't think I would opt for immortality. It's too much of a burden to bear, and the monotonicity might be too much to handle. There are only so many new things to discover.
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No. I like my current life better and an immortal life would be sad and boring.
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For a few lifetimes maybe, just to really experience everything that the world has to offer. There's also that opportunity to do something good for the world.
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