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

6. Horrific Injuries

Okay, so we stop having kids and sterilise our immortal population and we manage to somehow sort out all of our problems with energy, food and resources.

However, death isn't just something that claims the old and frail, death is a pretty sensible response to horrific injury and disease. Say, for example, that you're caught in a house fire and get burnt to a crisp, perhaps even reduced to ashes, what would it be like to survive that? How about if you go off to fight one of the inevitable wars over the world's resources, and get ripped apart by a landmine?

If everyone could live forever, the probability that they would meet with some kind of terrible, debilitating accident becomes a certainty, meaning that the world would slowly fill with the crippled, infirm and in pain, it would become some sort of hell on Earth.

So that's cheery.

Even if you did manage to avoid a decent maiming, the ageing process is no picnic either, particularly if it goes on for literally the rest of time.