How else am I supposed to deal with death except with apathy? Apathy is the conclusion of accepting that in the end, everything will be meaningless. All motivation only serves a purpose in so far as it makes my current life enjoyable, and as long as I am alive I can be content in being alive. But I can't truly ever escape the certainty of death; so I can only stop fearing death by not fully caring about anything emotionally, to the best of my ability. If I was ever to be immortal, I can see about changing my views on that.

Immortality is impossible. I still wish, that I could be immortal. I will explain why I do not care about the "disadvantages" of immortality.

First of all, a proper definition of immortality: Immortality is not just the extension of life, it's the inability to die, being not-mortal, im-mortal. There will be no death for me. This is not possible under any physical view of the world: Nothing is eternal, entropy increases, order is lost to chaos. Therefore, any genuine immortality already implies praeternatural processes: If I wanted to make it easy for myself, I could just wave away any issues people have with immortality by saying "the mere existence of immortality would already imply a reality in which the problems you see do not need to apply at all". But to actually explain why I, in spite of the fears other have concerning immortality, am fully in the "I would take any immortality where I would be truly immortal"-camp.

By defining immortality as the inability for "me" to "die", I'm already setting the groundwork for some of the specifics of what I would consider to be encompassed by true immortality: I, my self, the thing that consciously experiences my life, would never cease to exist. I would include "changes so drastic as to stop me from being me" in this, although that is a rather vague definition, and specify that what I mean by this is mainly "immortality is not immortality if you lose all semblances of coherent thought/ all capacity for coherent thought". To give some examples: Unconsciousness, sleep, temporary insanity, or anything really would be fine as long as I am still able to be me or am still me in some vague sense underneath of what I superficially display or am. If torture reduces me to an incoherently babbling wreck, then I must still be able to either have moments of clarity that in some way are part of a continuous existence of "me". If I float unthinking in the void for an eternity, then I must still be able to think, and in some way exist. Most of this could be summarised as "similar to sleep my existence may be superficially interrupted, but never ended and never truly stopped and then revived as a new process that is a replica of me when I was stopped."

Now to the actual counterpoints people have to immortality:

"All your loved ones will die."

I have never to my knowledge truly loved anyone. I feel empathy for people, but even when my grandma died I did not grieve for her; it did not even necessarily remind me of my own mortality, because while I stopped thinking about it obsessively (since I've already kinda figured out my take on the whole issue), I am very much aware on most days that I will die. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it also seems like I am aromantic, although I ofc can never prove a lack of romantic attraction will hold true for the entirety of my life. Additionally, I will lose people close to me regardless of immortality, and if losing your loved ones is so hard for you that over an eternity you just wouldn't be able to deal with it, then maybe even just losing the few loved ones over your regular life is too much for you. Would you kill yourself to not experience that pain? Or would you perhaps deal with the deaths as an immortal just as you have to deal with them in our regular mortal life?

"At the end of order, when entropy has reached its maximum in the heat death of the universe, you will be alone forever."

"An immortal life means an eternity of suffering."

"Death is what gives life meaning/ the finite life we have is what motivates us/ why do anything if you have forever/ etc."

"You'll get bored. At some point, you will run out of things to do. Even if the universe doesn't end in a uniform equal distribution of energy, at one point you will have gone through every possible permutation of reality there is."

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