Immortality response

Posted in response to Julia's question about immortality: "Would you choose immortality?"

This was one of the topics we discussed in my ethics class in high school. It was a very interesting subject because it could be interpreted in many ways as Julia discussed in her post. It could mean we live forever but still age. It could mean we can never die..etc. But immortality does interfere with the natural order of life in my opinion. The nature of things is that all beings are supposed to die to make room for the new ones being born. If no one or even some people were to never die, overpopulation could come into effect. Another problem that might occur is jealousy. If one person were to become immortal, others would get jealous and cause riots because they want to experience immortailty for themselves. What if it were only available to certain people because if it were a new thing, only the wealthy would be able to obtain it. But getting back to the original question, I personally would not choose immortality. I would want to keep things the way they are supposed to be, meaning i would eventually die, to let others have their chance to experience life when my turn ends. Immortality would upset the balance of nature and so I myself would not choose it.

Do you think immortality will ever become available with our advancing technology?