30 Folks Speculate What They’d Do If Given Immortality, But Also Sent Back 3,000 Years Back

AskReddit has decided to be a bit less serious this time around. Now, everyone’s talking about the idea of being given immortality, but the caveat is that you’d have to travel 3,000 years back in time, to 976 B.C., a time when King David supposedly passed and King Solomon took over. At least you’d know for sure what had actually happened in that court.

Immortality is a relatively simple concept that has led to not-so-relatively-simple discussions and speculations across human history.

In simple terms, it’s eternal life without death. But it can also be speculated as life during life as well as life plus the afterlife. No matter the case, it has pretty much always been one of the biggest headaches for humanity.

Immortality is most commonly seen through a religious or faith-focused perspective. Virtually all cultures have some sort of take on it, either as a survival of the astral body that resembles the physical body, the immortality of the soul, i.e. an incorporeal existence, or a resurrection of the body or re-embodiment. And a lot of it touches upon the idea of whether souls exist?

On top of that, throw in the concept of immortality being related to personal identity because can a dead person be the same as the original person that once lived? The discussion essentially revolves around the soul, the body, and the psychology of it all.

Whatever the case, science offers quite little at this point, though it isn't idle.

Parapsychology has shown attempts to justify an afterlife. Apparently, secular futurists see tech allowing people to suspend death indefinitely with things like uploading your mind onto an electrical husk to house you, providing bodily immortality. At least for long enough for your mind to be able to be transferred back into a body so you can rinse and repeat life.

This is by no means foreign for any of us as you quite likely have your own reasons for why you’d probably want to forego death.

First off, death entails pain and suffering. Possibly excruciating levels of them, in cases of terminal illnesses. But it can also be the pain others have to go through once you’re gone.