Screenshot of a Mastodon post - A picture of the bridge of the Enterprise-D from Star Trek The Next Generation’s first season. In it are Captain Picard, Doctor Crusher, and Wesley Crusher in the Captain’s chair.

The text reads:
“Wil Wheaton is now five years older than Patrick Stewart was in the pilot of Star Trek the next generation. Have your bones demineralized and fallen apart yet?”

Original post @ Mastodon

  • Dasnap@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    9 hours ago

    I wonder if we do ever create some form of immortality, if we discover that the human psyche has some kind of ‘wall’ where a person just doesn’t want to live anymore. Not due to health or personal life issues, just that there is a time limit on sanity that we don’t know about.

    • CommanderCloon@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      I’d be fine with being biologically immortal and having the option to choose when to die, that seems absolutely perfect to me

    • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      3·
      9 hours ago

      That’s a very common trope in sci-fi. More recently, I remember it from In Time with Justin Timberlake.

      • moody@lemmings.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 hours ago

        Many old people are too frail to enjoy the things they used to. I mean maybe one would still get bored of life if they had eternal youth, but I suspect it would take much longer, not considering mental illness and such.

        • Display name@feddit.nuEnglish
          1·
          5 hours ago

          Yes, the ones that I thought of meant that they were finished with life, as in have done what they wanted and being content with being at lifes end. So I mean, probably people would get to the point where they’re ‘done’.