History Main / LivingForeverIsAwesome

* Many (though not all) Transhumanists hold this opinion. With many arguments in favor of this tropes from them ranging from potential future knowledge and technology curbing boredom/ennui so that truly nothing interferes their immortal enjoyment, to the [[WeWillHaveEuthanasiaInTheFuture possibility of allowing oneself] [[NothingLeftToDoButDie to end your own existence]] if boredom actually does set in. Some have hypothized have been made about how we could possibly escape the heat-death of the universe, although how well those would work in practice is anybody's guess.

* Many (though not all) Transhumanists hold this opinion. With many arguments in favor of this tropes from them ranging from potential future knowledge and technology curbing boredom/ennui so that truly nothing interferes their immortal enjoyment, to allowing the [[WeWillHaveEuthanasiaInTheFuture possibility of allowing oneself]] to [[NothingLeftToDoButDie end your own existence]] if boredom actually does set in. Some have hypothized have been made about how we could possibly escape the heat-death of the universe, although how well those would work in practice is anybody's guess.

* Many (though not all) Transhumanists hold this opinion. With many argument from them for this tropes ranging from potential future knowledge and technology curbing boredom/ennui so that truly nothing interferes their immortal enjoyment, to allowing the possibility of allowing oneself to [[NothingLeftToDoButDie end your own existence]] if boredom actually does set in. Some have hypothized have been made about how we could possibly escape the heat-death of the universe, although how well those would work in practice is anybody's guess.

* The modern Transhumanists hold the opinion that if you do get bored eventually, then you are free to [[NothingLeftToDoButDie end your own existence]], but why not try to see how long you last just in case that doesn't happen? Lots of interesting hypotheses have been made for escaping the universal heat-death, as well, although how well those would work in practice is anybody's guess. There are countless of billions of years to test them, so there's hardly any hurry. Also, given that some people can eat certain foods or consume certain media over and over again without getting bored or fed up, our future knowledge and technology might even curb boredom/ennui so that truly nothing interferes with your immortal enjoyment.

** There is also Discord

* ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'' have Harry himself take this stance (and give a long list of the things he would do with his time to Dumbledore, in answer to his WhoWantsToLiveForever position), not only for himself, but for everybody on Earth. He even dreams of the very idea of death becoming nothing more than a grim story that future children aren't told until they're old enough to take it.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, multi-millennia-old {{Winged Unicorn}}s who govern the sun and moon as well as the entire country. They refer to centuries ago as if it was yesterday but never complain about it. Celestia is especially well-adjusted considering everything she's been through.

This trope is the goal of the ImmortalitySeeker. See also EternalLove, which may be a contributing factor to enjoying immortality. Contrast WhoWantsToLiveForever and LivingForeverIsNoBigDeal. Rarely overlaps with ImmortalityImmorality (even though the "immoral" character usually expects that living forever will be awesome), because the focus is generally on the immoral things the character does to prolong their immortality rather than the experience of it.

Money can come and go, but will mostly come since you have an infinite time horizon over which to accumulate wealth and make investments, and you'll always be around to enjoy it! As for the ones you'll love and lose -- well, "[[Theatre/AChorusLine Kiss today goodbye, and point me towards tomorrow.]]" Try not to forget your old friends, but don't let that shut you out from the amazing people you can and will meet! There are also cases in which the drawback of the loved one dying is removed by them becoming immortal as well. There can even be a SocietyOfImmortals where even your neighbors and coworkers live forever.

* ''Film/WeAreTheNight'': Nora seems very happy with her life as a vampire, saying it means anything you want to buy, with no consequences of drugs, food or sex. She's also the youngest until Lena joins them. Louise attempts to sell Lena on it too, expressing it to be bearable with other people. Lena initially appears somewhat happy with their swanky lifestyle, although is increasingly horrified at them killing people to feed aspect as opposed to the longevity.

{{Immortality}} is no picnic: living to see all your childhood friends and great grandchildren die, having to [[TheDrifter drift from place to place]] or [[PersonaNonGrata be chased out of town as a witch]], and having to crawl across the Sahara for three weeks without food or water with a broken leg because you ''[[PerpetualMotionMonster can't die]]''.

* ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'':

* ''LightNovel/IveBeenKillingSlimesFor300YearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel'': Azusa [[NewLifeInAnotherWorldBonus requested]] a long and lazy life when she reincarnated, and then spends the next three hundred years gardening, hunting slimes, mixing medicines and reading. She refers to this time as an endless vacation of relaxation, exercise and tranquility. She is also on excellent terms with the local and mortal villagers, who revere her as something like a guardian deity because the medicines she's provided have saved so many lives.

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'':

** Isaac and Miria freaked out a little bit when they figured it out ''seventy years later'', but adjusted quickly and had a great time, for example, being [[LightNovel/{{Durarara}} Dollars]].

* ''LightNovel/MagiciansAcademy'': Immortality means you have all the time in the world to study {{moe}} and collect rare items like limited edition capsule toys.

* ''LightNovel/NoGameNoLife'': Jibril has lived long enough to remember the War of the Old Deus and she's still happily looking for new books. One hundred years simply isn't long enough to read everything in the world.
* ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'': Considering that it replenishes his Power of Existence every night, Yuuji wonders if the Reiji Maigo will make him live forever. If this is the case, then he considers it a good thing because it means [[EternalLove he can stay with Shana forever]].

* ''LightNovel/IveBeenKillingSlimesFor300YearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel'': Azusa [[NewLifeInAnotherWorldBonus requested]] a long and lazy life when she reincarnated, and then spends the next three hundred years gardening, hunting slimes, mixing medicines and reading. She refers to this time as an endless vacation of relaxation, exercise and tranquility. She is also on excellent terms with the local and mortal villagers, who revere her as something like a guardian deity because the medicines she's provided have saved so many lives.

* ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'': This becomes a vague plot point in ''Brisingr'', when Eragon realizes he has become immortal. Instead of angsting about it, he decides to look for a wife among the elves because they are all immortal. Good thing he's already head over heels for Arya.

** The Wuzhuang temple has a community of immortals because of a tree that produces life extending fruit and they are extremely protective of it.

** It's implied that Henry Pupil was already an old man two thousand years ago when he spoke with a young Dengel. He's still merrily recording history and looking for new sources of excitement.

** Professor Randolph is a Asgardian warrior that retired on Earth. Now he teaches Norse Mythology. TheTeam estimates that he's been alive for a thousand years and his only complaint is a student putting too much Lit Crit and not enough History in their paper. He's had numerous paramours over the ages. He's also so patient that he's perfectly willing to wait for a human he doesn't like to die of old age.

* ''Series/DeadLikeMe'': Played with. Unlike the other reapers who are angsty or apathetic, Mason's pretty happy with his lot in death. On the other hand he envies the souls that get to pass on while he has to stay behind, but this is because whatever's on the other side is better than the side he's on.

* Not awesome per se, but the narrator of The People I Have Been from ''Wiki/TheWanderersLibrary'' seems quite happy with his arrangement, saying "I've been a soldier and a minister, a leader of men and a follower of causes. I've preached hellfire and harmony. I've said words profane and holy. I've been people I didn't like, and people I wish I could be again. But that's life, Emma. Life isn't static, it isn't frozen. Life doesn't stand still. It changes, and it changes us. This is just another step."

* ''Film/GroundhogDay'' plays with this trope. The main character goes back and forth between enjoying and despairing over his situation. But it's a bit different from standard immortality since he's living the same day over and over which obviously has different advantages and drawbacks. He begins with hedonistic excess, falls into despair as nothing he does means anything, and finally finds peace in deciding to be the best version of himself he can.

* The modern Transhumanists hold the opinion that if you do get bored eventually, then you are free to [[NothingLeftToDoButDie end your own existence]], but why not try to see how long you last just in case that doesn't happen? Lots of interesting hypotheses have been made for escaping the universal heat-death, as well, although how well those would work in practice is anybody's guess. There're countless of billions of years to test them, so there's hardly any hurry. Also, given that some people can eat certain foods or consume certain media over and over again without getting bored or fed up, our future knowledge and technology might even curb boredom/ennui so that truly nothing interferes with your immortal enjoyment.

* ''LightNovel/IveBeenKillingSlimesForThreeHundredYearsAndMaxedOutMyLevel'': Azusa [[NewLifeInAnotherWorldBonus requested]] a long and lazy life when she reincarnated, and then spends the next three hundred years gardening, hunting slimes, mixing medicines and reading. She refers to this time as an endless vacation of relaxation, exercise and tranquility. She is also on excellent terms with the local and mortal villagers, who revere her as something like a guardian deity because the medicines she's provided have saved so many lives.

* The modern Transhumanists hold the opinion that if you do get bored eventually, then you are free to [[SeenItAllSuicide end your own existence]], but why not try to see how long you last just in case that doesn't happen? Lots of interesting hypotheses have been made for escaping the universal heat-death, as well, although how well those would work in practice is anybody's guess. There're countless of billions of years to test them, so there's hardly any hurry. Also, given that some people can eat certain foods or consume certain media over and over again without getting bored or fed up, our future knowledge and technology might even curb boredom/ennui so that truly nothing interferes with your immortal enjoyment.

* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'':
** Morpheus makes a deal with Hob Gadling: he doesn't die, but they meet every hundred years in the same tavern. After two hundred years, Hob tells Morpheus how he got rich, married, and had a son. Next time, he's poor, his son died young, he can't remember his wife's name or face, he generally looks the picture of misery, the kind of guy the Pope would gladly MercyKill. Morpheus asks if Hob wants to die... to which Hob smiles and says "Are you crazy? Death is a mug's game. I've got so much to live for." Centuries later, when Death comes to see Hob to [[spoiler:tell him Dream is dead]] and asks if he wants to die, he ''still'' says no. Hob seems to ultimately manage because he accepts that life has both ups and downs so there's no point in despairing completely during the bad parts or expecting the good times to last forever.

* ComicBook/VandalSavage occasionally has [[WhoWantsToLiveForever bouts of weariness concerning his existence]], but for the most part he really gets a kick out of being an evil immortal bastard. He's got an entire world he hasn't conquered yet and enemies that are still alive after all. Most telling is that Vandal could end his immortality [[spoiler:by refraining from eating his descendants' flesh and organs]] but he doesn't.
* Played straight for the most part in ''{{ComicBook/Fables}}'', with the notable exception of Pinocchio, but only because he's stuck as a permanent pre-adolescent and wants to age so he can grow up. Thus it's not 'living forever is bad' but 'living forever ''as a child'' is bad'.

** ''ComicBook/XMen'': Cameron Hodge is a dark version of this trope. He founded an anti-mutant organization targeting Warren Worthington, aka Angel, and his current team, ComicBook/XFactor. As part of his preparations, Hodge made a [[DealWithTheDevil deal with the demon N'Asrith]] for immortality. Unfortunately by that point Angel had become Archangel and he cut Hodge's head off in short order. As per the deal, Hodge survived... as a disembodied head. Hodge returned later with a cyborg body during the X-Tinction Agenda, only to end up as a disembodied head ''buried under a mountain of rubble''. He returned a third time as part of the techno-organic Phalanx, at which point the authors had forgotten about his immortality and supposedly killed him off, only for him to return ''again'' and finally get KilledOffForReal (maybe) during the Second Coming crossover. While he suffers many pitfalls of immortality, he never laments his condition -- instead he throws it back in the X-Men's faces. He's so insane with hatred that being a ''[[AndIMustScream buried head]]'' is worth it if he can hurt just one mutant.

* Scrooge [=McDuck=] and Hazel in the ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse do not explicitely state that Immortality is awesome, but they sometimes say that they're glad to have lived so long and are often quoting things they saw.

* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'': Due to their incredibly long life spans, many Cybertronians believe that Cybertronians never die of natural causes, only trauma, and with a cure for the only thing that really challenged this- cybercosis- now being found, this indeed seems to very much be the case. Religion claims this is because the Transformer god of death, Mortilus, was destroyed in ancient times. They definitely fit this trope as this is something that cybertronians do like to openly brag about and seem quite proud off.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Part of the reason Paradise Island was a ''paradise'' was that the Amazons lived forever in an all female utopia where they could bring along their daughters to choose the lifestyle themselves when they got old enough.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': Part of the reason Paradise Island was a ''paradise'' was that the Amazons lived forever in an all female utopia where they could bring along their daughters to choose the lifestyle themselves when they got old enough. Later writers after things were changed so Diana was the only child to ever grace the Isle had Amazons going mad due to not being able to have or adopt children and the stagnation of an ever unchanging limited populace, but the originals loved their immortality.

* Subverted in ''Literature/GulliversTravels''. Struldbrugs are humans who are immortal, but they age normally and are declared legally dead at age 80, with their property distributed to their heirs. They are provided with the bare minumum of resources and care to keep them alive.

* Subverted in ''[[Literature/Gulliver'sTravels]]''. Struldbrugs are humans who are immortal, but they age normally and are declared legally dead at age 80, with their property distributed to their heirs. They are provided with the bare minumum of resources and care to keep them alive.