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

3. You'd Be A Freak Show

This is all before we consider everyone else in the human race. You would have to keep your immortality a deadly secret as, if anyone got wind of it, a bounty would immediately be put on your head. People wouldn't stop until they figured out exactly how you have managed to overcome death ... and how they could do it for themselves.

You might be taken in for testing to begin with. Bloods/biopsies/scans will be taken, everyone will try to figure it out. What if they get a bit carried away and decide that figuring you out is for the greater good of humanity and damn your rights? Welcome to the rest of time spent in a lab.

Even if you did manage to keep it a secret, over the next few millennia, you will inevitably begin to stick out thanks to the awesome power of evolution. Despite what you might think, the human race is still evolving. Say we survive for another billion years, what the hell are we going to evolve into?

Perhaps in a matter of a million years, you'll be some kind of bizarre evolutionary throwback, a fascinating relic from humanity's dim, distant past. You'd stick out like a sore thumb and, even if they didn't figure out the whole "immortal" thing, the discovery of such a primitive being will not do your human rights any favours. They might even put you in a museum or zoo, that would kill a couple hundred years at least.