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What are some downsides to immortality that most don't think of? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 12 hours ago by doomsdayrs@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] 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.

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

Alive, but stuck in nutty putty cave for eternity

[–] superkret@feddit.org 2 points 17 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.