Immortality

C1: Infinite Probablity"The probability of any bad thing happening is 100% over a time period of infinity."This is true. However; you neglected to mention that the likelihood of any event happenning is 100%. Run a marathon, cure cancer, date a model, travel he world, create a spaceship capable of intergalactic travel, find out where the dryer hides all the socks, anything. As you have mentioned, unfortunate things will hapen, but so will good ones.Now, on to the volcano example. It may be extremly unpleasant, but what's a few weeks of boiling when you have until the heat-death of the universe? You're looking at this from the persective of someone who will likely die before you reach 100 years old. An immortal person would not do that. When you live for "trillions of trillions of trilions of years", you have a perspective that is considerably different from that of someone with a normal lifespan. The time spent trapped in hardened volcano could seem like it's over before it even began, compared to everything else.C2: Eternal BoredomOver an infinite time period, finite sources of entertainment wll be exhausted, yes. The problem here is that entertainment isn't finite. Only taking into account right now, there are over 7 billion people. That should keep you busy for a while, as people are constantly thinking of new things to do. You don't have to etertain yourself; at least until the extinction of humans, you have 7 billion people to think of things for you to do. Also, many of the activites you posted are things you can repeat. Meeting the presdent in one year is not the same experience as meeting the presdent 10 years later, for example. C3: Human extinction"Almost every single thing we enjoy relies on other humans in some way or another."No, amlost every single thing we enjoy relies on time and effort put in by humans. As it is now, time is very limited and so this effort has to be divided up amongst many humans for our society to function. If you were immortal, your time would not be limited, so you would have the capability to produce all the luxuries you want. Aside from time, production now is also limited by a lack of knowledge of how to produce a particular product and inabilities to work caused by physical disabilities. An immortal person would have the time to figure out a way to overccome these."With no modern technology and no human interaction, the immortal will eventually revert back to caveman status as there will be no human race to sustain energy sources."This is where we go back to C1 - given an infinite time period, there is a 100% chance of any event happening. Just as it can mean you ill be buried by a vocano at some point, it can also mean you will at some point create or find a way to provide energy and social interaction."Finally, someone who lives forever will be forced to watch as any person they ever love or have connections with dies around them. "Even in normal lifespans, people experience the deaths of people they love. Given more time and more people you have connections with, you will experience more deaths. It's a trade-off, everyone has to meet people and peole tend to die. We form connections with them with full knowledge of this.C4: Planetary Destruction"When the planet is destroyed then you'll be stuck floating in oxygen-less space for hundreds of years before you ever hit something. The suffering from being unable to breathe and having no food or water would drive you insane."If you ca't die, then such things as food, water, and air are no longer necessary. They may make you happy because of memories you hve associated with them from when the planet existed, but it's possible to get along without them. If it will not result in death, a lack of air, water, and food is not going to cause considerable suffering or permanent problems.Also, I notice that mst of this argument is focused on the continued existence of our current planet. Our immortal person has until the death of the universe, which I consider plenty of time to build an interstellar (or ntergalactic) spaceship and find a new planet, possibly even one smilar to our own.C5: Universal TimelineThis argument assumes that there is nothing left to enjoy after all the lfe (aside from the immortal person, of course) is gone fom the universe. We can't really make that assumption because there is nothing to base it on. A human has never existed somewhere where they are the only life form and there is no planet, so there is no way to know how he or she would react to it. My ArgumentDepending on a person's values, immortality may be the mst rational chioce he or she could make. For example, someone that values heroic acts may choose to be immortal so that he can run into a burning building to save someone's life, or anything else that would be too risky to do without knowing that you could not, under any circumstances, die from it. Or maybe someone wants to see exactly when we will have cities full of flying cars, or what will happen to cause the extinction of humans. Immortality would allow someone the opportunity to do these things.In these circumstances, immortality alows the individual to act acccording to his or her whim while practically eliminating any long-term consequences for doing so. If someone robs a bank to pay for chemotherapy for a cancer patient and is sentenced to jail, then he or she can go to jail with the knowledge that their sentence is hardly even a fraction of their life. Our hypothetical person whochose to be immortal could go into work and knock his boss out, but in what he immortal person may view as a brief eriod of time, no one that even remembers the incient will be alive anymore.