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Considering the value of goods right now in your respective countries, how much do you think should immortality cost? This, of course, includes the option to die whenever you wish to.
I just thought about this because of another thread that reminded me of a news predicting that there will be a technology that could provide virtual immortality say 2060 or around that time. I am not expecting them to give it for free so how much do you think should it be?

A luxury car costs about $250,000 so I am putting the price of immortality at double that amount - $500,000. Even if it's a virtual immortality and most probably my body is still going to age and only my mind would be the one living, it is still considered a luxury because it is not something that could easily be had by many. If it could be made affordable then great so that not only the rich people have it because that would be unfair... but we live in an unfair world so...

That is one tough little question. What price for immortality... I guess as far as I'm concerned immortality is worthless if you can't share it with the ones you love and if you are unhealthy. Who would want to live in constant pain forever and ever, and, how emotionally burdensome would life be if you constantly outlived all the people you ever cared for? If on the other hand you had both your health and all the people you loved were also immortal then immortality would be priceless.

And how will you liveaYou won't mentally be able to handle never dying, and you'll start wishing you had. Life will become repetitive and a pain to live, not a joy. After a few hundred years, you'll have done it all.

It's also unnatural and bad for the planet - imagine a world where no one died in the past. The world would have a population of approximately 100 Billion People. This is simply unsustainable.

Not to mention, our universe will end at some stage. You can't possibly outlive the universe.

So yeah, I don't think it'll happen ever, for the reasons that it is super unethical and impossible.

I do not know how many, I would have liked the immortality, but most do not, they will not want to live forever and I understand them, so I think it will be cheap or free, because if you can buy it, it will cost millions of dollars and not who will not have such money, and therefore there is no point in this. Many disadvantages at a huge price.

It is really a though question. I think people can offer a lot of money. Especially the rich ones.

Well, if you own a game or create your own virtual space, then I wouldn't think that it could be that expensive. Probably just a hardware to upload "you" in the virtual space. And by then, I'm thinking technology is way advanced. So, maybe all you need is a laptop (or hologram, who knows)? Feel free to add thoughts to this.

Depends on the method.

Cryonics, organ regeneration etc. would undoubtedly be extremely expensive.

Virtual immortality is a different story and will likely be accessible to the masses for next to nothing. Healthcare plans would probably prefer people to go this route because it would cost less to them than keeping someone's expensive-to-fix body alive.

Interesting question. My soul?

I'd give all the money and time

I think it should be very expensive ...
In general, I think it is not necessary. To live forever is complete nonsense.

I would pay for not being immortal. Its too much and humans dont need to live forever.

I would pay nothing.. to see all my relatives die - no!  :o

It depends on what immortality involves:
-Will I get older, or will I be forever young?
-Will I be protected only from diseases? (for example, can a bullet kill me?)

I think people value life and some things in general more if they don't have them for "infinity". If i knew I could live forever I could just waste a few years just to lie around. Also, I think it's exciting to create your story with the time your given and really work yourself up.

Living here forever is a nightmare

Perhaps it is not worth paying

Nothing. I dont want to live forever. Living forever is seeing all your loved ones die one by one.

Why do you have immortality? Do you think that after 100-200 years of life you will be just as fun as in the beginning of life? Have you considered what diseases can be with you in such a long existence? I do not think that it can be called life

I don’t know if I would, living too long would be too tiring

Maybe an option to stay younger and have better health would be better than immortality. And I can imagine people would pay a lot for it.

I think immortality is something that in some time will have a certain cost. Because medicine is developing. But I really don't know how much should it cost. And I don't want to be immortal , because everything should have its ending. This is how our world exists, this is a kind of a rule, and we shouldn't destroy this system.

The medical can't even grow an arm back on a person who lost one. Doing the impossible (at least at present) is impossibly expensive.

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I wouldn't pay anything. The truth is that I don't want to be immortal. I think that all the days that I live, I am lucky to have each of them but everyday wouldn't feel special if I was immortal.

You could offer me £1 billion to become immortal, and I wouldn't do it.

Both life and death are part of living here. Your life here is a but a camera flash in the big picture, the picture you become able to see once you exit this world.

Same here.Not only what you said, but for example how would immortal person experience the feeling of fear or danger.Our mind and body are alarmed the most when our life is in danger, so that element would be gone forever.I think that immortality is a very depressing and boring thing.

I can see ways to keep it fun and fresh for maybe 200-300 years, but after that it would probably turn into agony.

So in this perspective, we never die

One bitcoin at least  ;)

Would it need to be in $/€? I wonder if I could strike a deal where every ten years or so I would need to meet my maker and retell a story/experience I had live within that time that would earn me the opportunity to continue living. Once every 100 years the maker could choose what story he wanted to hear in ten years time. A good way to balance agency between the two parties.

Nope not interested unless you are richman interested holding on the wealth or despot clinging to power for eternity

What resources are accepted for payment? Materials, money, soul?  :P

hmm.. it has never crossed my mind.  immortals have big responsibilities, too.  they're usually thought of as having super powers. there shouldn't be any price for it as immortality is a divine gift.

Perhaps, half of my bitcoins will be fine.  I have to leave some for my survival for eternity, right?