Would you make the decision to live forever if you could? You'd have time to do everything you ever wanted to do, but then what? Philosophers and ethicists have varying opinions. Sure, you could get bored, and you'd have to say goodbye to everyone over and over as they died, not to mention watching the love of your (present) life age while you stay 25 or whatever. Some would argue that time is only valuable to us because it is limited.
Then there are further concerns in the YouTube comments. The proposition in this TED-Ed video says we wouldn't have to worry about death as immortals, but it does not specify whether we'd experience pain or hunger or mental illness. And to keep having adventures, we'd have to keep working to earn money. And we'd have to put up with the ups and downs of the civilization around us. Then when the earth dies out, we'd be stuck in space with nothing to do until the collapse of the universe. Maybe mortality isn't so bad after all.
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I've thought about immortality before. Vampires are the closest thing to immortality (not counting Jesus' resurrection). I think the downside to immortality is never getting rid of your thoughts. Will you sleep? Can you sleep? Always 'on', never getting to the end of your chapter. Never seeing the after-life (if there is one) and reconnecting with loved ones long passed. Always being the same in your head I think would drive you to insanity. No, if I would be the only immortal then I'll pass. Perhaps if there were more immortals 'life' would be tolerable
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