everyone lives forever

That by itself doesn't make life worthless

sure it does

well it did by their logic

when you are effectively immortal... the idea of death loses all fear or stigma

it even might become... attractive... or exotic

seeing death would be something NEW and EXCITING

because its not something you would normally experience

the world of Last Order is very multi-layered and complicated so its probably not the perfect example

the concept of how and why we value life is one of the core topics the books discuss

also the lines between humanity and technology

if technology gave you the ability to create whatever you could imagine... then how could you value anything? as all of it could be easily replaced

I think in such a world people would become even more afraid of death by unnatural causes, clinging to their life jealously and hiding themselves away from any danger

I think he probably means other people's lives - but, either way, it sounds super interesting.

@InsaneCaterpilla I disagree. I think in such a world people would get bored of their constant youth and security and do even more reckless things than they do now

Self-harm may even become a form of recreation

I agree we need to avoid death

@Rai i dont see that, tbh. why? we only think of our lives being "normal" or "right" because it just happens to be what we are used to, an 85 year life with 35 years of youth. but if we had evolved to live 1000 year lives, you'd be saying the same thing- that 1000 years is a "normal" time, but any longer than that and people might get bored. and if it was 100,000 years we evolved to live, same thing. we're just normalizing what we know, but htere's nothing inherently better about it

I wish we got to live at least a thousand years

I bet if we did though the leading cause of death would be some kind of accident or another

You can maybe avoid that for say 89 years but 1000? Much more likely to happen I think.

@blueorange22 Maybe that is true, but you sure wouldn't see me changing my lifestyle or my family's just because we have 900 more years to live

It's not about how much time we have, it's how we use it

We could either use those 900 extra years to live a "normal" life

Or we could use 30 to get on our feet

Like we do now

And those 900 extra years are just gravy

More time to do what you've always wanted to do, but couldn't

I guess it would be nice if the nanites could keep us youthful.

Not juut alive but able to function well too.

That's how they work

You will never age

you will never grow sick

You can regenerate any wound to an extent

theres a scientist named aubrey de grey researching that. he has a book which is an excellent read

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Grey

Isn't there some big.wig.at.google that is.obsessed with staying alinve long enough to be able to benefit from nanites?

The only way you could die was to extreme violence

I sure am too

I think he takes massive vitamin supplements or something which is supposed to.keeo.him going until nanites are a thing

Personally I think I will just miss that technogy.