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I'll start off with one, Being upset about a breakup that happened hundreds of years ago.

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[โ€“] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 30 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

immortality doesn't guarantee perpetual health, you're alive, but so broken and sick you wish you could die, but you can't

[โ€“] Today@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

My knees hurt already. I can't imagine living with constant aging forever until you're just a crumpled pile on the ground and then it still goes on.

[โ€“] 50MYT@aussie.zone 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah this answer.

Imagine being immortal and you get stuck somewhere.

Like in a giant land slide.

[โ€“] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Alive, but stuck in nutty putty cave for eternity

[โ€“] superkret@feddit.org 2 points 20 minutes ago

Not eternity, just a few billion years until earth is vaporized by the sun going supernova.
Then you're free - to drift through empty space forever.

[โ€“] dgriffith@aussie.zone 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

"I have no mouth and I must scream" could end up being a plausible way to spend eternity.

[โ€“] USSEthernet@startrek.website 1 points 41 minutes ago

Just listened to that recently. I could see this being a thing.

I also couldn't believe how graphic it was for how old it is.

[โ€“] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Brandon Sanderson wrote a novel about this.