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

Edit 1:

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

Edit 2:

  • Loneliness does not count. I feel like we all know immortality means you'll miss people and lose them.
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Idk id be super depressed if I was able to experience my family, friends, family's children, and so on die.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

i think that experiencing all the things & people i care about would be the worst of it.

either that or seeing us repeat history over and over again as a society complete with all of the indifferent cruelties it entails and studying it, but ignoring it anyways

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

outlasting humanity and all its trappings

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

All the people trying to dissect you for science.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Everyone else in your life that isn't immoral (if you're the only one who is) dies eventually, so every time you make a friend or start a family, you do so knowing that you will have to watch them all die someday.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

As OP mentioned, a lot of replies focus on loss, that friends will inevitably die and objects will break........ we already face that reality with regular life! That's hardly a downside of immortality itself.

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