I’ll start off with one, Being upset about a breakup that happened hundreds of years ago.

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  • Heath death of the universe, Death of the sun, etc, does not count. I feel like focusing on this is an overused point.

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  • Loneliness does not count. I feel like we all know immortality means you’ll miss people and lose them.
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    22 days ago

    The rest of humanity will eventually evolve into something you don’t recognize and can never be part of.

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    Being asked your birthdate in order to view a game on Steam, and the year dropdown not going back far enough.

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      Worse still, no manual entry of the birth date, so it takes ages to scroll down and select the year.

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      Or not being able to play a board game, because it says “ages 9 - 99” on the box.

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      I once entered an extremely far back yet technically plausible birthday there and steam just wouldn’t accept it. I remember thinking “what if Kane Tanaka wanted to check out this steam game, you just wouldn’t let her?” (RIP by the way, she was the last oldest person whose name I learned. They change too often)

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    Boredom after some period of time, you will have some everything there is to do.

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      You get to pursue all of the really niche crafts. Things like clock making and random complicated stuff like that.

      I don’t think one could ever be bored with enough curiosity, and the means to pursue it.

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    The Sun will eventually fry all life on Earth and boil off the water & atmosphere. Eventually the Sun will die out completely, leaving you on a cold, dark rock.

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      With no atmosphere and the sun going nova, there’s a chance of the rock getting obliterated. With a nice boost you might fly off to another planet eventually. Might not be inhabited or even inhabitable, but hey.

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    Government Bureaucracy.

    Renewing a driver’s licence or passport. The individual looking at your application will see the date of birth and raise a red flag.

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    Depends on the type of immorality. Do you continue to age? If no, what age do you stop? Eventually the universe will die. So what happens to you then?

    It might be fun for a while. Maybe even a long while. But that fun will be gone in an instant compared to the trillions and trillions of years you will float in a dark dying universe of nothing.

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      Presumably you will advance along with humanity though, or failing that, just figure out the transcendence thing yourself with so much time?

      I don’t think anyone would choose to stay ‘meatbag human’ for trillions of years.

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    immortality doesn’t guarantee perpetual health, you’re alive, but so broken and sick you wish you could die, but you can’t

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      My knees hurt already. I can’t imagine living with constant aging forever until you’re just a crumpled pile on the ground and then it still goes on.

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      “I have no mouth and I must scream” could end up being a plausible way to spend eternity.

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      This was the premise of the Greek myth of Tithonus

      In short, Eos fell in love with Tithonus, a mortal prince, and begged Zeus to grant immortality to him (but forget to specify eternal youth and eternal health) so she was forced to watch him age until he shrunk into a raisin and was eaten

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      Yeah this answer.

      Imagine being immortal and you get stuck somewhere.

      Like in a giant land slide.

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          Not eternity, just a few billion years until earth is vaporized by the sun going supernova.
          Then you’re free - to drift through empty space forever.

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    Either humanity gradually grows to despise you for your ancient morals

    or they don’t ever meaningfully surpass where we’re at today.

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    As we get older, our perception of time speeds up. An immortal would easily lose track of time after just two human lifetimes, causing an immortal to suffer from dementia-like symptoms where they expect one date but find themselves habitually late. And since time doesn’t mean the same thing as us to an immortal, they would eventually become disconnected from the world around them and be unable to reintegrate. They wouldn’t be able to maintain friendships, relationships, mortgages, payments, etc. They would be surrounded by people but forever alone.

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    Knowing the answer to some of history’s biggest mysteries, because you were there, but being unable to speak about them because, 1, that would expose you, 2, nobody would believe you either way because nobody expects you to be THAT old.

    Also, it is already frustrating seeing kids being dismissive or denying events that you yourself have lived. Imagine being thousands of years old and seeing so much shit, but those events are rarely retold, forgotten, or straight up denied by conspiracies or future governments that won’t admit their fault on it.

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      Knowing my memory I’d forget it all very soon after it happened and need a history book to help me recall any of it and the stuff left out or distorted would end up warping that recollection enough that it’d be so unreliable I may as well believe the historians. I can scarcely remember the previous day as it is.

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      Knowing the answer to some of history’s biggest mysteries, because you were there, but being unable to speak about them because, 1, that would expose you, 2, nobody would believe you either way because nobody expects you to be THAT old.

      IDK, I feel like researching for supporting evidence of a theory you already know is correct would be much easier than researching to try to piece together a theory from no information. I think you could put the truth out there as credible and well-regarded theories, even if there are incorrect alternative theories that people also have to consider.