Re:Unselfish People Are More Likely to Wind Up with Depression
by smokeyj on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @12:05PM
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> it surprises me that someone would want to live for 1000 years when some people don't get 1
Yeah I get that. Crossing the border into Mexico is an experience. On one side of the line you have prosperity, on the other side you have soul crushing poverty. Then you go and enjoy some tacos.
Re:Unselfish People Are More Likely to Wind Up with Depression
by eduren on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @01:09PM
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>Wouldn't it be really depressing to be a thousand years old and to have every person you ever knew dead?
Well I assume that if I have long life that there are others too. Think of the deep relationships that one could form over a 1000+ year period.
It's just I'm not sure that I'd want to, even if I could. Wouldn't it be incredibly depressing to watch something like WWI and then live to see humans doing the same dumb stuff 100 years later? Would you really want to see Twitter when you had lived through Twain? Wouldn't it be really depressing to be a thousand years old and to have every person you ever knew dead?
It's not someone having 1000 years and someone having 100 that depresses me; it surprises me that someone would want to live for 1000 years when some people don't get 1. I can't imagine living for decades having experienced stuff like Vegas multiple times. It seems crushing. Then again, I'm not 130, so who knows.