Subtopics and Discussion Questions

Subtopic 1: Personal Life and Emotions

These questions focus on how immortality would affect an individual's personal journey.

• If you had an infinite amount of time, how would your daily life and priorities change? What would you do first?

• How do you think your relationships with family and friends (who are not immortal) would be affected? Would you still choose to make deep connections knowing you would eventually lose them?

• Do you think humans are emotionally equipped to handle eternity? How would you deal with the boredom, loneliness, or sadness of seeing generations pass?

• What hobbies, skills, or knowledge would you pursue if you had forever to master them?

Subtopic 2: Society and the World

These questions explore the larger impact on humanity and the planet.

• If everyone was immortal, what would be the biggest challenges for our planet (e.g., overpopulation, resources)?

• How would immortality change our concept of work, careers, and retirement? Would people work for centuries, or take breaks that last decades?

• Do you think progress (scientific, artistic, social) would speed up or slow down with immortal minds contributing for centuries?

• How would laws and justice systems need to change? What about crime and punishment if a life sentence truly means forever?

Subtopic 3: The "Downsides" of Immortality

This encourages critical thinking about the potential negatives.

• Is there a "dark side" to living forever? What would be the greatest burden of immortality?

• Some say that death gives life meaning. If we remove death, does life lose its value and urgency? Why or why not?

• Would you ever want to die? Under what circumstances might an immortal person choose to end their life?

Subtopic 4: A Fun Creative Twist

These are more imaginative and playful to encourage creative English use.

• Imagine you are a 1,000-year-old immortal. Write a short diary entry about a "normal" day in your life.

• What is one historical event you would like to have witnessed, and why? (And since you're immortal, you could have!)

• If you could use your immortality to become the world's greatest expert in one field, what would it be and why?

Special Experiment: The Graham's Number Challenge

Introduction to the Experiment: 

Now, let's try a different scenario. You will live for Graham's number of years. This is not forever, but it's a number so vast that the human brain cannot truly comprehend it. In this universe, every star would have died trillions of years before your life ended. It's functionally infinite from a human perspective, but with a definite end.

Discussion Questions for the Experiment:

How does knowing your life has an end (even after Graham's number of years) change your plans compared to true immortality?

The end of your life is so far away it's meaningless, but it will happen. Does this thought bring you comfort, or a different kind of anxiety compared to immortality?

Compare the two scenarios: After thinking about both, which one would you prefer: true immortality or a Graham's number-year lifespan? Explain your choice.

Key Difference: What is the most significant difference between the two, in your opinion? Is it the concept of an ending, no matter how distant?

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I would learn many useful skills, like mathematics, foreign languages etc.

Although I know I would finally lose them, I would still make deep connections at my starting time of Eternity. After losing many friends I would perhaps be numb

No, the emotional feelings of human beings are not designed to handle eternity, we can't really understand the real boredom, loneliness, or sadness from eternity

Perhaps people would not be able to retire any more, they would work forever

A life sentence WITHOUT the possibility of being commuted​ would be the harshest punishment. The death sentence would be in second place, followed by a life sentence WITH the possibility of being commuted

I will try my best to learn many kinds of different foreign languages

I think the "normal" days wouldn't have any changes, I wouldn't change my plans about the skills I would learn

It would only change the viewing point to watch my "normal" days

To be honest I don't want to live for a long time very much. So I will choose my normal life, neither immortality nor Graham's number-year lifespan

Welp, I think the Graham's number-year lifespan will bring the certainty of "having an end", this will give me the comfort

More comfort than anxiety

I would learn every skill which I think helpful for my life and scientific knowledges

If people could still give birth to new lives, the resources on the planet would be drained very quickly

If an immortal were imprisoned illegally and would not be able to escape, he/she would suffer forever

I think I would choose true immortality🤔

How do you think your relationships with family and friends (who are not immortal) would be affected? Would you still choose to make deep connections knowing you would eventually lose them?

I understand that although I became immortal, not everything did. I think if my action can have good affect in a relatively reasonable time interval, it will be good. So I will choose to build friendship, love, and family, as normal people.

Do you think humans are emotionally equipped to handle eternity? How would you deal with the boredom, loneliness, or sadness of seeing generations pass?

I think that will be a challenge, but still not too serious. If I do not have infinite memory space, I can live at today and be young in mind. If I have infinite memory, it will be a challenge to overcome the past sad events, but I still have shining days in memory to balance them.

What hobbies, skills, or knowledge would you pursue if you had forever to master them?

Learn to cook, paint and sing. Make a database for all mainstream math.