What's your plan for not dying?

Fuck forever, just let my upcoming prostate biopsy be negative. I'm retiring and I have shit to do that doesn't involve sitting in front of the TV wearing a diaper.

Shrug. The closest that real biology allows. I already have children so at least some sense a part of me will live on for at least the duration of their lives.

Past that I'm with most people on here that immortality sounds horrific. Now I can get behind extended life span especially if medicine and society provide for being actually healthy and able to enjoy it. Just not forever.

If life has taught us anything, it’s that you eventually get tired of everything.

I have no intention of trying to be immortal, just try to live a long time through healthy eating and exercise

I'd like to learn enough biology to cure aging and cancer. But first the politics need to change, so that's my priority.

I honestly can't think of anything less appealing than dealing with other people forever.

Are you a billionaire? Cause unless you are it's like a child wanting to be Batman when they grow up.

I would have no regrets if I die tomorrow.

When my time comes I will rid myself of the delusion that I was anything other than a piece of the universe experiencing itself.

Maybe something fundamental of me will return. If the Buddhists are right I have a suspicion of what I am learning in this life and what I will need to learn in the next. But otherwise I will simply no longer distinct at further points in time, just as there are prior ones I was not distinct at.

No plan
\ Hope someone else figures it out before I'm too old to make it worthwhile

Not really not dying ever (entropy will came for everyone some day). But let's say not doing for very, veeeery long time.

I am 35 in reasonable health. I have reasonable chance to live until development, distribution and cheaping of real anti-aging / rejuvenation therapies (that can be 20 years). So my plan is to help spread awareness about such therapies to support their development rather sooner than later. I am thinking about founding an organization to support writing Wikipedia articles in many languages about this topic.

And in case of premature death, I intent to sign up for cryopreservation to buy some time to researchers to develop therapies for whatever would kill me in the meantime.

If we're speaking how I'd like to do that if possible, just put my brain into a robot body. Or just upload my whole mind into a robot.

If we're talking realistically:

Realistically I'll probably die in a heat wave.

Just for fun, if a like-minded individual has any possibility to physically preserve my brain (not a copy!) in their makeshift lab I'd probably roll the dice on that one if things were half-clean. Yeah, I know, the odds aren't good.

In terms of cyborg stuff, I would want something more organic than popsci typically shows though. Like having a semi-synthetic body that is its own multi-cellular, symbiotic organism. That can further connect to other things (like to the myconet to exchange resources).

I would not want to live forever, though. If I did anything like that I'd probably live isolated for a while and then retire into my own brain.

Who wants. To live. Forever?

Forever? Perhaps not, until I clean up my gaming/reading/watching backlog? Perhaps.
That might as mean forever as well though.
There's no chance for us

No plans. I die like a real man.

I'm gonna die and like it.

I only plan for things that are possible so no plan to live forever.

Having said that, scientists are working on a cure for aging. Even if they sort that out before I die, the treatments will be too expensive for me.

If you are under 40 and in age appropriate health, you have reasonable chance to benefit from anti-aging therapies. Start prepare 😉
Most probably they will be expensive af at the beginning. And similar to microwave ovens or mobile phones, they will become very affordable with time (economies of scale, experience curve, competition, expiration of patents). Probably even many countries will subsides them because they will keep people healthy longer (so they could work out be generally productive, rather then costing a lot of money on treatment of chronic diseases).

Only insane billionaires plan for that.

I'm not looking to live forever. Just another 40 to 50 years as long as I'm healthy. Only plan for that is to eat somewhat healthy and get a couple hours of cardio and strength training in a few times a week. Nothing obsurd just enough to maintain strength as I age and get the heart pumping.

There are treatments in development to keep you healthy much longer that currently.
- you might end up like ray kurzweil, aging no matter what despite 300 pills popped every day
- I don't want em

I'm just gonna wing it!

And I'm here wanting to end it the moment my organs start failing

Completely ignoring my own mortality, followed by crushing deathbed betrayal and disappointment

Thanks to denial, I'm immortal!

Mortality is a state of mind!

I don't intend to live forever, that sounds rough as hell.

Depends on what kind of forever. If it's truly forever and there's nothing you can do about it, that sounds like hell (imagine being the only thing floating in the universe after the heat death!) but if you can decide after 200, 500, 1000 years you've had enough, it really sounds like a pretty sweet deal.

I'm supposed to have a plan for this?

Obviously. Immortality is hard without a solid plan.
- Shit man I've just been winging it my whole life. Fuck I guess I'll sit down this weekend and come up with something solid. 😓

my background in biochemistry makes me think it's almost guaranteed to be impossible, so i don't worry about it.

however, in hypothetical case it isn't, i'd argue that it would be proper to destroy this technology in all cases along with inventors, because it would be horridly expensive initially, and first people to get it would be people like peter thiel and larry ellison. there was a recording where putin and xi admitted that they are also interested. then what you'll get would be class of immortal oligarchs. planck once said, progress in physics happens one funeral at a time, it's really more general than just physics, and you can say goodbye to any progress from that point on

Part of rejuvenation is rejuvenating brain to keep its youthful plasticity.
- thiel isn't funding unlicensed drug trials for longevity/immortality just so that he'll become more progressive in the process
  with 200, 300 year old oligarchs values they grew up with are gonna stay influential much longer
  For the record, i just intend to outlive my enemies

I don't? It sounds like a horrible curse. Part of the reason life is meaningful is that we're only temporary witnesses of the universe.

I've never gotten this attitude. Why does only having temporary existence make life meaningful?
- Because, for instance, choices carry more weight when you can make finitely many of them.
  Knowing you only have a limited time forces you to try and realise what's meaningful to you and what's not, and to actual act upon it.
  If you live forever, have time to learn everything, experience everything... Then do you really? At which point does the amount of different experiences you run after stop painting a coherent picture of one's life, values and identity, and start looking like noise in a random checklist? Finding meaning in an eternal life would be a sisyphean task.
  And also, ageing and dying are part of the human experience. Accepting your own mortality, your own limit in time, when you subjectively feel like you've always existed, is a meaningful journey. Becoming immortal robs you of that chance.
- Novelty. When you're a kid, every experience is new, fresh, wondrous. That shit eventually gets old as you may have noticed

Why the hell would I want to live forever, I don't want to be alive now

I've seen enough sci-fi to know it's a terrible idea! 🤣

Meh, if immortality means that a copy of me is being uploaded into a computer, then at least I guess that is technically someone else spending eternity in the Torment Nexus?

Breathing.

I have no plans to live forever as a separate being, but I am hoping to attain nirvana so that I end the ending the suffering involved with death.

I expext to live forever, seriously. Just not in this body and not on this planet.

"Forever" is a long time. Only this universe still has a few billion years to go. Washing my dishes every day for all this time would be boring. No thanks!

I mean, it's more of trillions of trillions of trillions... (repeat many times more) and that's only until the heat death, the universe will continue to exist, though it would be a pretty boring place to visit after the black holes die.

Keep doing what I'm doing. It's worked so far.

Thats the neat part, I dont. I simply continue the routine of putting food in my face and if anything bad happens... Try and deal with it.

Due to my job, if about half of the fortold "end-timed" occure, its not an issUe not an issME. Ill probably be at ground-zero of what ever it is, or atleast down the block from it...

Have fun in the appocalypse. If its zombies, I get to do that one.

Like Bob from the Bobiverse.

I would totally be cool to live in the Bobverse.

Ever? None. I'm not foolish enough to think I can live forever. Even if I could be upload to a computer, I wouldn't. That sounds more like hell than heaven. No Earthly pleasures.

Starting this year, limited booze intake to 2 days per year.

Bought a Personal Locator Beacon for off-grid activities.

In order to be around when gen-eng, consciousness upload, medical age reversal, are real prospects. Still wouldn't opt for them though, here and now is it.

Who wants to live forever?

Connor McLeod?
- His goal was to outlive the rest and get the prize.

Magic notebook.

Everything I write in it becomes true.

I'm betting on the phlebotinum

Y'all are crazy, I'd take immorality in a heartbeat if anyone was offering.

Consider what happens when you are the last living creature on this planet. Eventually, the sun expands into a red giant and now you give to live in constant agony inside the sun. Of course, there is space travel so perhaps you can avoid an extreme sunburn.
- That's true. I assumed it was more of a cure for aging. But OP did say "live forever" and "not dying", so I'd agree that I don't want those.

What, why would I want that, what am I gonna do with forever, more of this shit, no thanks

I read The Postmortal by Drew Magary.

If no one dies, life is worthless.

And if only I stay alive forever, my wife and my friends are gone, and it’s just me, alone, in this shattered husk of a body.

I don't. The idea of doing this in perpetuity is painful. I would like to earn my rest.

What about possibility to live in great health for several decades longer, and if you get tired by life you just stop taking pills and deteriorate to oblivion as is usual now?

Why on earth would I want that? It‘s a fate I wouldn‘t wish on my worst enemy.

I was not aware it was optional.

Something something adeptus mechanicus.

Quantum Immortality. There is at least one version of me that lives on.

Hopefully I will find a magical lamp, with a wish granting genie inside, in some mysterious bazaar. Then I will use one of my three wishes for my own immortality, after I've wished away anyone who currently has that wish in place. Then use the last one to give the genie his freedom.

The Genie will turn you into a Genie and you will loathe your immortality as an eternal slave really quickly.