Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26484417-20160229225527/@comment-4867780-20170112113150

Koromau wrote: DYBAD wrote: Or an expert neuronal rewiring, to simply remove boredom and grief from the equation (experiences remain equally vivid no matter how many times, and sadness of loss fades on its own within minutes). Well I personally wouldn't consider that living anymore... you may as well just feed yourself infinite pleasure and lie in bed for eternity and that would be a truely hollow existance. You may as well just wipe your mind and start again if you were going to mess with it. That way you could experience everything new again and it would be a more organic and natural experience. Grief is a part of life, its the terrible moments in life that allow the best moments to truely shine as cliche as that might seem.

You would be just as alive and active as anyone else, just without the psycho-emotional degeneration of boredom and grief. Actually, you would be significantly more alive than normal people, since your enjoyment of life would not be slowly eaten away by the accumulation of experiences. It doesn't mean you would lock yourself into a lotus eater machine, it just means you would still have a happy life even if your options are limited, and even if loved ones don't stick around with you.

There's nothing wrong with eternal youth and health, isn't there ? This is simply the psychological counterpart, the eternal mental youth/health matching its physical counterpart, and removing all the drama of immortality directly from the source.