No, not because youth is new, not that either, sorry.
I’ll let you know if I am still alive 1 million years from now. But obviously there is a time span on existence before ennui overwhelms even the best of people. Although I don’t know that for sure, age has told me that I am no longer as interested in things I once was, by extrapolation I think eventually I would no longer be interested in most things, and then eventually having experienced anything of interest I would probably no longer see the point of being alive. So I think everyone even if they are immortal is going to get bored of life, assuming of course we don’t ascend to a higher plain become Q, and oh no wait, they’re mostly bored too.
Without an ending nothing that exists has any point, with perhaps the only exception existence.
Yes, I recall that Q was always bored shitless.
It wasn’t just Q it was Q too and Q remember the episodes where they all went to war over an idea that the Q had to change, and then it was only resolved when they did change but then Q kinda ruined it, and not only that Q not satisified with that change go bored, and they all got involved possibly because they were bored Q. What fascinated the Q about humanity despite us being pointless amoebas compared to them was of course, we still had some life in us.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqxDOYQEkjI[/youtube]
Anyway science fiction aside I think the point stands there is nothing so dull perhaps as eternity and nothing so “dull” to an eternal as trying to understand a being that is not as itself perfectly dull.
You have to like the Joker bit, there is nothing more interesting than a mad man. 
- we are both evolved species and for all we know we may be extinct long before the hydra, as a species that is. We are not more evolved.
- I don’t see the argument. It seems like there is an argument like. Sure, hydra lives forever, but we are more evolved and we die, so dying must be better than not dying.
- How would we know if immortality is overrated before we experienced it? Pardon the paradox.
Hel, I remember him curing all their health problems etc. They wouldn’t have it. Ok,so Jordy could losee the damn visor, but he and others knew that his generosty would never end. Those stories portrayed people from a utopian world desperately trying to keep occupied with space exploration, they didn’t want to lose the few challenges they had.
Moreno, the problem is that while we can envision physical invulnerablity we can’t envision mental envulnerability. Neither is realistic, negating any reality to the issue, afterall, health care doesn’t protect one from everything. But, what would be mental invulnerability? It would be one lacing emotions, from a neuroloical perspective the person wouldn’t be simple rational, they would completely fail to function beyond an insect.
I can’t really envision either physical or mental invulnerability, but look Stuart, you seem to be envisioning what must happen. How do you KNOW this is the case, rather than simply think it is likely or very likely or whatever? How did your power of imagination manage to be complete about a phenomenon you haven’t experienced, even a bit?
Oh really?
You think I only function as less than an insect??
…hmm…
I believe it’s the opposite: we CAN imagine mental invulnerability but cannot imagine a physical one. We get older day by day and as we see our body deteriorate, our spirit remains intact. Old people cannot move but in their mind are perfectly young as children!