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Originally Posted by Ammi

..so ‘I recall back in the day’...would become..’crikey, I can’t recall that far back, that was 900 years ago..’...it would be like those time travel movies...(..unless it was available to all..)...in having to feel the emotional pain of losing so many people that you loved...emotional pain is a huge thing of ‘aging’ as well, I think...so it would be ‘fighting’ that also....and it would be hard../...well impossible maybe...to plan for the future financially etc...when the future would be so endless...interesting though, if it were possible for all....

This is as well/... I doubt the human memory has the capacity to remember things that far back. So most likely, every few hundred years you would realise that you couldn't remember anything about your life 300+ years earlier other than major events.

(They also cover this in Doctor Who with Aria Stark's character... who is immortal but still human... when he meets her thousands of years after the start of her immortality, she has thousands of journals of her life because she can't actually remember most of it, and doesn't even consider herself to be the same person)

Also, whilst theoretically disease shouldn't be a thing (because if there's a technology that can alter biology to the extent that it would halt aging, it would presumably cure most if not all disease, and certainly the "big killers" like cancer)... I'd imagine that you would have to live a very careful life in order not to die in an accident within, say, 500 years.

In practical terms it would have to go hand-in-hand with a very strict limit on the number of children you can have or we'd be multiplying even faster than we already are. Maybe if the "immortality process" also makes you sterile?

ALSO... I don't think I would want to live forever / for thousands of years. Maybe 200 - 300 might be nice but not forever. Guess it would be good if you could "turn off" your immortality when you want to? Hmmm. Or I guess you could just jump off a bridge...