Would you want to live forever?

Today we watched a short video in class that pertained to humans being able to live forever. To obtain this luxury, you would have to get your brain cells scanned into a computer system then live through something similar to a television monitor.To live forever sounds like something you just can't pass up but when actually given the opportunity,would it be as enjoyable as one would think? Humans aren't immortal for a reason and when scientist begin to "play God" terrible consequences seem to follow suit. Things like over population and sacredness of natural and unnatural resources will occur, which then becomes extremely unfair to those living a natural life. Then what happens if there is a glitch in the system controlling the lives of millions of people (which occurs in the video), do they all just die? And these are just two of many factors that can occur. So in my opinion, I say living forever won't be be a luxury but instead a curse and that one should live there best "natural"life so they would be content enough to not want to live a million more.

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