With the biological aspect of the human mind I think I would want to live a max of 500 years...
I can not imagine humans NOT to have all emotions fade the longer they live, less things to excite you because you ahve seen all, tryied what you wanted to, so an eternity would just be another gray glasslike day after another without meaning.
Everyone you knew has long died, and at some point I guess most people would stop trying to have a relationship with other humans, afterall they too will die, and leave you alone again.
I am not even sure if I would be sad someone I knew died after 1000 years, so many others must have died before that, so many that the concept of death would have lost all meaning.
When you think about it, Imortality must be the most evil of punishments you could give someone. In the end you yourself would just be a shell, be out of sync with the rest of the world, dwelling on memories you can barely remember anyways, forgetting who you really were back when things mattered, and I am sure you would be more then average annoyied with mankind, seeing how those critters keep making the same mistake not learning from them.
Like a horror of repitition.
I somehow guess it was what the people around 1800 wanted to put down in paper with all those dark and brooting books about creatures that lived forever, no? I understand that train of thoughts, would you really care about your wife nr. 512? or yet another batch of children that will just grow old and die before you have even grasped that time flew by?
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