I found a thesis paper entitled "Why death can be bad and immortality is worse" by Cara Kalnow.
In this paper, she examined about the moral implications of the metaphysical nature of death. She said that there are two ways in which death can be defined. First is that death is permanent end of life while the second is that death is not the end but the another start of life. Her thesis paper contains the Epicureans in which they said that death is bad and one who is dead no longer exists and conclude that harms can only befall one if one exists at the time in which the harm occurred. Another is the Anti-Epicureans in which they said that death is not bad because it is the time when that person deprived the goods of life. She also stated that there are good reasons to regard the prospect of death which states to another question: if we have good reason to regard our possible death as a misfortune, would immortality present a desirable alternative? Thomas Nagel said that life would be indefinitely good if everyone is meant to live forever. Another is Lucretius, an Epicurean, said that nature provides a termination of life and to live beyond human span will spoil the values of life. She agreed with Lucretius and concluded that immortality cannot be an alternative because removal of mortality brings with it the removal by which it means that the value of life is recognized. Thus immortality cannot be recognized as human life.
When I read an article entitled "5 Reasons Immortality Would be Worse than Death" by Elias Don Tonte in cracked.com.
In this paper, she examined about the moral implications of the metaphysical nature of death. She said that there are two ways in which death can be defined. First is that death is permanent end of life while the second is that death is not the end but the another start of life. Her thesis paper contains the Epicureans in which they said that death is bad and one who is dead no longer exists and conclude that harms can only befall one if one exists at the time in which the harm occurred. Another is the Anti-Epicureans in which they said that death is not bad because it is the time when that person deprived the goods of life. She also stated that there are good reasons to regard the prospect of death which states to another question: if we have good reason to regard our possible death as a misfortune, would immortality present a desirable alternative? Thomas Nagel said that life would be indefinitely good if everyone is meant to live forever. Another is Lucretius, an Epicurean, said that nature provides a termination of life and to live beyond human span will spoil the values of life. She agreed with Lucretius and concluded that immortality cannot be an alternative because removal of mortality brings with it the removal by which it means that the value of life is recognized. Thus immortality cannot be recognized as human life.
These are the five reasons why immortality is worse than death:
Well people say that humans are still evolving. Their bodies and brains will adapt to the changing environment but yours won't. Maybe the food that they eat can't handle by your digestive system. People will judge you and think you are weird.
2 Nobody can ever find out:
No one should ever find out because they can report it to the authority and they can arrest you. They may think that you are an alien and going to take over the world. So from time to time, you should go to different places with different names so that you would not be judged.
3 You're still getting older (Mentally):
Your body doesn't age but your mind does. Your brain has limited ability to store.You would not remember all the memories when you were born because you will have a new memories to store and it is really hard to remember all of them.
Many people believe that every year seems to be shorter than the previous one. There is a difference between when you are 10 and when you become a 100 years old. It becomes more shorter, for example, a minute will seem to be like 5 seconds when you get older.
5 You'll eventually get trapped somewhere (Forever):
What if there is some disaster and all the people died? Because you are immortal, you wouldn't die. You wouldn't suffer from the disease but you will suffer from being alone. You will be going crazy.
Now if you have a chance to be immortal, will you take it or not? My suggestion is don't. You should just enjoy your life while you can because you will not know when is the end of your life.
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