Mortality

**Hooahguy** · 01-10-2011, 20:47

So if you are eliminating only the most common forms of death, then you arent really immortal, only immune from certain things.

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 01-10-2011, 20:52

Originally Posted by Hooahguy

So if you are eliminating only the most common forms of death, then you arent really immortal, only immune from certain things.

Yes, biological immortality. Everything you said in your opening post applies to biological immortality, so...

I believe there is a kind of jellyfish that they think is biologically immortal.

**Hooahguy** · 01-10-2011, 20:58

Then you arent really immortal, you are merely elongating the human lifespan to an extreme length. If you were not susceptible to biological causes of death, then artificial ones would kill you. War, car crashes, accidents, rabid animals, etc.
Over the course of thousands of years, one of them is bound to happen. Unless you live in a bubble.

**a completely inoffensive name** · 01-10-2011, 21:04

Originally Posted by Hooahguy

Then you arent really immortal, you are merely elongating the human lifespan to an extreme length. If you were not susceptible to biological causes of death, then artificial ones would kill you. War, car crashes, accidents, rabid animals, etc.
Over the course of thousands of years, one of them is bound to happen. Unless you live in a bubble.

No, you really are immortal. Most people in developed countries die from natural deaths. Yes, eventually one artificial death might kill you. But then again, it makes no sense to say "oh well he died after living 4,300 years because a hammer fell on his head by accident. so it's not really immortality.". You will not die unless you put yourself in danger, which means you will live forever as long as you are smart and don't hang around construction areas without a helmet, which means you are immortal.