Mar 7, 2018 02:58 AM
Nope -- not literal zillions of years type immortality, for the same reasons as episodes of some Twilight Zone category show have probably illustrated in the past.
http://quillette.com/2018/03/02/would-yo...mortality/
EXCERPT: . . . Would you opt for immortality? Most people say they would not. In surveys that ask people how long they would like to live, most say that they would not want to carry on much past the current average life expectancy. [...] And these findings were consistent regardless of income, belief (or not) in an afterlife, and (in some cases) even anticipated medical advances.” [...] Respondents were more likely to favor life extension if they are younger, believe that future medical treatments would provide a higher quality of life, if they could still be productive by working longer, if they wouldn’t be a strain on our natural resources, if older people were not seen as a problem for society, and if living longer did not result in debilitating diseases and disabilities.
[...] The idea of living forever, in fact, is not such a radical idea when you consider the fact that the vast majority of people already believe that they will do so in the next life. [...] So powerful and pervasive are such convictions that even a third of agnostics and atheists proclaim belief in an afterlife. Say what? A 2014 survey conducted by the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture on 15,738 Americans between the ages of 18 and 60 found that 13.2 percent identify as atheist or agnostic, and 32 percent of those answered in the affirmative to the question: “Do you think there is life, or some sort of conscious existence, after death?”...
MORE: http://quillette.com/2018/03/02/would-yo...mortality/
http://quillette.com/2018/03/02/would-yo...mortality/
EXCERPT: . . . Would you opt for immortality? Most people say they would not. In surveys that ask people how long they would like to live, most say that they would not want to carry on much past the current average life expectancy. [...] And these findings were consistent regardless of income, belief (or not) in an afterlife, and (in some cases) even anticipated medical advances.” [...] Respondents were more likely to favor life extension if they are younger, believe that future medical treatments would provide a higher quality of life, if they could still be productive by working longer, if they wouldn’t be a strain on our natural resources, if older people were not seen as a problem for society, and if living longer did not result in debilitating diseases and disabilities.
[...] The idea of living forever, in fact, is not such a radical idea when you consider the fact that the vast majority of people already believe that they will do so in the next life. [...] So powerful and pervasive are such convictions that even a third of agnostics and atheists proclaim belief in an afterlife. Say what? A 2014 survey conducted by the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture on 15,738 Americans between the ages of 18 and 60 found that 13.2 percent identify as atheist or agnostic, and 32 percent of those answered in the affirmative to the question: “Do you think there is life, or some sort of conscious existence, after death?”...
MORE: http://quillette.com/2018/03/02/would-yo...mortality/