Immortality's a CURSE!!! - CatTrigger
Immortality's a CURSE!!! - CatTrigger
The Curse of Immortality is going into an eternal all-fluid diet. I hope you like the texture of smoothies.
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I mean, vampires are immortal, not indestructible. If he really had it that bad Iโm sure a date with a vampire hunter would solve it quickly.
Dude definitely needed therapy.
I think the biggest problem with immortality is memory. How long until you have literally forgotten the person you have been before. Is that person then truly you, or have you died somewhere along the way?
Hum... Probably some 5 to 10 years. Maybe less.
All those philosophical questions about personhood permanence (like the transporter one too) are a joke when compared to how impermanent people actually are.
Theres is a rpg gamebook called โthousand years old vampireโ that covers this.
Over time you literally forget parts of your life.
Itโs a great way to spend a night with a single friend.
We all forget what it really was to be 6, yet we're still us. To never change yourself isn't a virtue and change doesn't mean "losing yourself", that's a fallacy made up by the fearful. Friendship is also a temporary thing, you always lose some and gain some no matter how close (we as humans just hate to think about it that way).
All these supposed problems with immortality really are just made up, or an attempt to romanticise the painfully inevitable.
In Iain M Banks' Culture novels people get several hundred years old. Death is pretty much optional, they just usually choose to die at some point. The way they deal with the problem of memory seems to be that they just take longer to do things; working somewhere for 30 years is a stint. You might follow a hobby for 20 years, or take a 10 year vacation.
But there was one character who chose to not die. He was over a thousand years old and an important witness to something that happened during the Idiran wars (iirc). He did have that problem, and he had outsourced large parts of his memeories. Electronically, and in the form of an explorable virtual world.
edit: I'm now not 100% sure about the 2nd paragraph. Maybe it was in a Culture novel, but differently, maybe somewhere else, maybe I'm mixing up two stories..
Why should one care? Live in the moment.
They're also instinctively driven to cannibalism and mass murder. The vampire is a metaphor for the aristocracy of old Europe. A seductive but ultimately grotesque ravenous monster that feeds on the common people as livestock and corrupts the very soil of the land they occupy.
Tony Soprano also had a therapist.
That's true, but also the vampire trope has been used in various ways, eg. as a metaphor for sexuality. It'a not a clearcut thing with just one meaning.
"It is a potion of immortality, not invulnerability!"
I have a book of underground monsters called Veins of the Earth, one of them is a vampire that got swallowed by a landslide and fossilized, still alive
That's probably the scariest thought of immortality. Living normal life is one thing... hell most the things are just.. more of the good and bad. But yeah over the course of thousands of years, the million to one scenerios that could get you trapped. (landslides, earth quakes, building collapses, swept out to sea, intentional "murder" (IE an enemy knows he can't kill you, so he entombs, burries you etc..)