5 Ways To Live Forever (And 7 Reasons It Would Suck)

4. The Curse Of Eternal Youth

Right, so now you're immortal and you have eternal youth. Now we're getting somewhere. So what happens when you're the only person to live forever?

You will get to witness every great achievement of humanity that is to come, you'll see things that we can barely even comprehend as possible at the moment, you might even see us all leave the planet and head out into the stars.

That's the good bit, the bad bit is, well, everything else.

For a start, there's the obvious issue of having to watch all of your friends and loved ones whither and die. Over and over again. Forever. We've discussed how marriage can increase your lifespan, but what would immortality do to your perspective of the whole thing? The person you commit 50 years of your life to, their whole life, will be no more significant to you than a drunken fumble in a nightclub.

What about work? You're not going to be able to hit 60 and spend the rest of time tending to your prize begonias on a state pension, if you want food to eat and a roof over your head then you're going to have to work and earn forever. But hey, having all the time in the world to see, do and experience everything should make up for it, right?

Well, not exactly. If you have literally forever to get your bucket list done, where's the impetus to do any of it? More to the point, why don't you do it all now, in your ordinary mortal life? Because you're too busy, too poor, too tired - those things might still be there if you're immortal.

Then, of course, there is the psychological phenomenon that time seems to speed up the older we get. When you were a kid, I bet the summer holidays felt like an age, now you can feel as though you've blinked and another birthday has flown by. As you hit your 100th, 1,000th, 1,000,000th birthdays, time will lose all meaning and you will slowly begin to lose your mind.