Dear Swayam
Immortality is a never-ending life. You may survive the death of society, the country, the whole human race, and the earth itself. You may outlive the entire universe as infinity is a very long time. In mortal life, people use life well and everything will be meaningful. While the immortal life many of the time will be spent wastefully as there no end to this life cycle. Death and life are two sides of the same coin, a constant cycle, a pulse in a wide spectrum of light. Life without death is like inhaling without exhaling. Furthermore, immortality isn’t living forever. That’s not what it feels like. Immortality is when everyone else is dying. This means that living forever will make it impossible to form any kind of relationship.
Dying would make myself free from the weariness of time. When I live forever my mind would break down and yet become emotionless. I would meet people, become friends with them, get close, and build meaningful relationships but then all of the people who are taking an important role in my life would die from old age leaving me alone. I would witness the death of my family members and experience the next generation of my family and then witnessing the death of these generations too. All the death will exhaust me or maybe I’d be numb to death. Living forever seems enticing because there are many more things to explore and learn, to never be trapped by the “time” and never worried about running out of time because immortality time would be endless. However, after you have lived for say, 2000 years, traveling the world will become another meaningless task. Immortality will also potentially make you the smartest human beings, being able to explore and experience so much than the average person with the approximately 80-year life span. You’d be a walking history book after a thousand years. But then, I would be treated as a human exhibition, rare because I’m immortal. It feels like a scientist will lock me down in the laboratory and be used as a test subject for many experiments.
Personally, I would not want to live forever because it would be hard to see the people around me die and leave me. Immortality we don’t need to worry about running out of time but for infinite years it would be meaningless and lonely.
Sincerely John