Debate: Life after death
Side: No, it is not possible

The belief in an afterlife is perpetuated by religious ignorance. The belief in the possibility of living forever is something that our technology may be able to accomplish in the future. What makes them equally preposterous?I wasn’t comparing the two notions as being both religious, although they do share the ignorance factor in my opinion. I was comparing them because they are (as far as the evidence shows) false notions based purely on hope. You said that “the possibility of living forever is something that our technology may be able to accomplish in the future,” but one could just as well say that is it possible that an afterlife does indeed exist and that technology can discover this as a truth in the future. I guess that what I am trying to tell you is that while these notions are possible, neither are probable. And I am okay with that, the prospect of living forever sounds like the last thing I would want considering the world we live in. Death has a serene, peaceful sentiment in my opinion. A well deserved rest, a solace to the fire.Sure, all living things die. But back when the human race did not exist, no living thing could create things from the resources around them. Did that mean it was impossible back then for creatures one day to create tools and then use resources around them via technological development?Of course not.Evolution lets us overcome anything, my friend.I don’t see what this has to do with living forever. Are you saying that our species can evolve into a life form that doesn’t die? Above, you said that technology would accomplish this. I think I’m confused. But either way, I don’t think either is likely to happen. I think that with technology, we can prolong the lives of people. People used to have a much higher mortality rate in our history, and the average age of death was in the 30s or 40s range. Now the average is about 75 -80 and who knows how much longer that can be extended. Extended indefinitely though? Well I think this is where you and I will continually butt heads.Just wait somewhere in between 30-60 years. Then you will have your proof,Now, if you said something like FAR into the future, I think you would have a lot more credibility, but 30-60 years?!... uuum, wow. Just… wow. I believe the only thing that will stop the proof from arising will be a catastrophe that nearly makes the human race extinct, but I don't see it happening. If it didn't happen in the past 30 thousand years, why would it happen now more likely then any other time? It won't. I'll be surprised if it does.I consider a huge catastrophe happening far before people are living forever. It hasn’t happened in the past thirty thousand years because for the greatest majority of that time, we didn’t have weapons capable of obliterating whole cities and disintegrating millions of people in one explosion. It may not be a natural disaster that does it; we could very well be the end of ourselves at our going rate.What we DID have for the greatest majority of that time is a species that has continuously sought out to kill, maim or torture anybody that didn’t look like them, act like them, talk like them, believe in the same God they do, or wear the same hats that they wore. The human species hasn’t proven to be good at a “living forever” concept, what they are DAMN good at, is killing, controlling, manipulating, enslaving, discriminating, and hoarding, all the while touting that “Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not steal. Love your neighbors.” Etc etc. Our technological advances have not only prolonged the lifespan of the species, but it has come now to a point when it can potentially end the human species considering the savage nature of the devil called Man.