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What are some downsides to immortality that most don't think of? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'll start off with one, Being upset about a breakup that happened hundreds of years ago.

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Heath death of the universe, Death of the sun, etc, does not count. I feel like focusing on this is an overused point.

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Loneliness does not count. I feel like we all know immortality means you'll miss people and lose them.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, they always gloss over how you'd have a very noticeable accent within a couple hundred years, and would straight up be using a second language within a thousand.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

As if peoples accents and vocabularies don't grow and change over time?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Accents are at least somewhat fixed. Haven't you noticed old people sound a certain way? Ditto for grammar - hedging with "like" isn't something I'd ever hear an elder do where I live, and the "because noun" shortening sounds straight up incorrect to them, rather than just cute.

Vocabulary can grow, though. Sometimes it doesn't, but that seems to be mostly down to old people not wanting to learn. Unfortunately new vocabulary is relatively minor in the evolution of most languages - a Russian word and an English word will often descend directly from the same 3000BC proto-Indo-European root, although they might now have drifted to mean different things.