What It Feels Like to Live as An Immortal?

Born into a first world country she lives a very  pleasant life First kiss in high school, then merit scholarship to go to college, living with too many roommates in a group house. Good friends. Bad friends Fun dates Bad dates Age 25: She’s maxed out her Roth IRA for the first time this year Amazing to think she’s already saving for retirement.

Age 27: She’s in love This is the year she gets married Age 30: Her first child! Age 38: Her first home! Age 48: Her child is off to college The similarities in their appearances are off-putting Everyone thinks they are sisters Age 50: What is happening?

She looks and feels as good as she did when she was 25 But all her friends are aging Some have tragically fallen ill with cancer or heart disease. Age 55: The doctors don’t know what’s going on Her cells are not decomposing Her bones aren’t shrinking and her muscles don’t show any signs of weakening Her cognitive tests show zero decline Age 60: Word has gotten out about this “timeless” woman She’s done some press about how she has kept in such good shape She signs a book deal Her child has a child She’s a grandmother She looks identical to her daughter. Age 65: Her book, 40 Years a Twenty-Year-Old, is a New York Times bestseller Her family has built a very comfortable nest egg of several million dollars from her lifetime of retirement savings plus her book sales Age 70: She has taken to athletics and is setting all sorts of national and even world records for her age bracket Her stardom rises Age 75: She’s still in peak shape, but now her daughter looks older than she is and her partner looks elderly She starts to feel distant from her spouse and her child Her social circle starts shrinking as her childhood friends now look completely different from her and she’s too much of a novelty to make friends with people who “look and act” her age.

Age 80: Her partner passed away but she hasn’t aged a bit Her ever-lasting youth made her an international celebrity Is this immortality, she wonders Age 100: The last person she ever knew from her childhood has died She feels this weird sense of isolation from humanity. Age 150: Her celebrity has taken on a more mythical status She is a frequent and celebrated talk-show guest and provides historians with all kinds of eye-witness accounts of events over a hundred years ago She has no real close friendships and has decided to direc t her seemingly immortal life toward academia. At that time, Climate Change has extremely damaged the earth and governments in many coastal countries have collapsed.

Age 165: That “nest egg” she thought she needed to pay for her retirement and her book royalties have been gaining compounded interest for decades, and she is a billionaire many times over. Money means nothing to her. The concept of a nation-state is disrupted as physical boundaries of the earth are rewritten with changing sea levels and desertification of many agricultural lands.

Age 180: She's fallen in love again. She starts a new family. It feels weird at first, but she is happy and loves having children again.

This is a bright spot in the face of global starvation and population loss. Age 350: She's had three families and has seen three beloved “life partners” die and generations of her descendants die Life is too much to bear. Everyone she loves is gone in the blink of an eye No one is even alive to share in their memory.

She falls depressed. She tried to take her life and is horrified that she cannot die [Music] She wonders if she lived a previous life and is now in Hell Perhaps she is, because the world itself is becoming more and more unstable. Age 400: It's taken FIFTY years of therapy and processing, but she decides to give life another try.

Her immortality is a curse for her, but it might also be a beacon of hope for humanity. In the meantime, nations are formed much more fluidly and with a greatly reduced global population, can be easily overthrown given the right conditions. Now that she has attained demi-god status and immeasurable wealth and knowledge, it only follows she would form her own nation and build a utopia for humankind.

She calls it, reductively Eden. Age 450 Her compounded wealth are ridiculous and she has some of the largest venture capital investments, hedge funds, and philanthropic organizations in the world. Eden is now a bastion of wealth and vitality as she is able to personally fund the government and support the population with a universal basic income.

She has spent hundreds of years working on the most difficult problems of physics and mathematics. She’s made discoveries that would be unachievable in a regular lifetime She’s developed a way to travel through outer space as fast as 3c Age 500: Preparation is complete. She will become the first human, if you can call her that, to leave the solar system.

She is going to use her technology to go to a solar system that’s 4. 7 light-years away the closest to Earth where there is a possible planet in the habitable zone She is obviously the best candidate as she can guarantee (everyone thinks) that she will live to make it there and, if she decides, back. At .

3 speed, she'll reach it in only 10–20 years. She could be back to celebrate her palindrome birthday of 555! Age 600: She made it.

She found a habitable planet. Her arrival was disastrous, however. Her massive ship failed to slow down, collided into a vast portion of land and leveled off everything in her sight, killing most flora and fauna.

Some of them were massive creatures that were as tall as trees. Age 650: She feels something she hasn’t felt in over 600 years she feels …. older She can feel her own mortality in a way she hasn’t since that first time she went to the doctor's office and he said he couldn’t diagnose her some 600-odd years ago.

Age 690: Communications with Earth abruptly ended ten years ago and she hasn’t received anything since. She is pretty sure that isn’t a good sign. Instead of planning her return, she decides on Plan B: developing the several hundred thousand diverse embryos to build a new world here that she will stay to raise.

Age 691: Her memory is fading. She has arthritis in both hands. She has had a bad cough for months.

But she has almost found the perfect place to found civilization. She just made it to a large landmass with wide, fertile plains. Age 695: The camp is set up, but she realizes she is dying.

There is such poetic justice to this. She, a bridge between worlds. The last of her kind Starting a new world while hers is ending.

[Music] Her decades-long wish to be mortal and die is now seemingly coming true right when she wants to live so she can raise her “children. ” Age 699: Her test batches have all gone horribly. They just can’t survive It feels almost as if the world is just not ready for people like her.

Perhaps, she thinks, it’s a sign yes, in her old age she’s started to believe in things like signs and fate. Perhaps this place must age a little longer to be ready for humans. Age 700: This world is a beautiful place.

She feels connected with the universe and feels this solar system is truly her home. She’s traveled light-years and left a dead world behind to found a new one. After centuries of fame, she feels content that she shall die and leave a world that will never know she existed.

She takes her beautiful “children,” frozen in their state, to their time capsule where they will sleep until the conditions are right and more kinds of wildlife that could feed people. She kisses them goodnight, walks to her favorite spot beneath that one alien tree, and it feels like home. She closes her eyes and falls asleep.