If you were able to live forever, what would you do?

Well my whole point is that if you live forever you are virtually assured of hitting those odds eventually. Even if we assume that a war or natural disaster doesn't leave you trapped the earth isn't going to last forever. Once our sun burns out what then?

And I counter you explaining how you are less and less likely the longer you remain.

Science will evolve, so will tech we'll find other ways to survive and remain.

You do understand that any odds are virtually assured if your time frame is infinite?

If you stand out in one thunder storm your statistical odds of being struck by lightning are reasonably low. If you had been standing out in every thunder storm that had ever happened then you almost certainly would have been struck by lightning many many times. 

This is sort of what immortality would be like. Disasters that you don't expect and are completely unprepared for would not only happen but probably happen over and over.

Also as I said eventually the sun will burn out and then I'm not sure what your plan is.

Perhaps that's why in many religions you leave your body behind when you attain immortality.

Actually I think that many religions believe you leave your body behind because there is clearly a body when somebody dies but eternal life is a big selling point for many religions. One way to resolve this is to claim that the person just left their body behind but that the person lives on. If that is what happens, and I have no reason to believe that it is, then I am unconvinced that whatever leaves your body would still qualify as you.

You're simply incapable of comprehending probability. Your defeatist attitude is basically what all losers of games feel when they say the high ranking players got to the top by good luck.

I don't believe in luck. In any case everybody has a plan till they get knocked down.

I think you are mistaking me though. I'm not just being a Debbie downer here. Life is precious and rewarding and enjoyable precisely because it is finite.

But according to you it will be finite anyway so there's literally no logic to denying immortality because according to you it's finite anyway which gives it value apparently.

The part of immortality that was enjoyable and rewarding would certainly be finite. The part where you are trapped or lost or floating through deep space forever alone and going mad would be.

Living forever would suck. You'd get a few hundred to a few billion years of watching everyone you love die before a nuclear holocaust/meteor strike/Sun eats the earth and then everything would suck forever. you'd just be sitting on an empty rock on space for trillions upon trillions of years. 

"Demolish my opponents, become one of the Illuminati and potentially take over the entire universe/reality."

RM, you'd be committed to an institute for life before you are ever able to do that.

I would collect what is new and popular today wrap it up and lock it away and then sell it for fortunes years later. 

Become a Carthusian Father and retreat from the world. It would probably be the only way to stay sane.

I'm not sure about the far reaches of the future.

But same I do as a mortal, eat, sleep, read, listen, experience.

Far reaches, as many others have said, probably go insane at some point.

Or perhaps weary of existence as occurs in some fiction.

On a philosophical level, rather than scientific level, I sometimes worry we 'already die far more often than we think.

If my nature changes to something 'new, then didn't my previous nature die in a sense.

Does a caterpillar live on as a butterfly, or did he die, and someone else emerge?

I want to be immortal.

Better being alive, than being dead, I'd say.

You only think that whilst you can.

Death is easy...Though dying is sometimes tough.

To be successfully immortal you would need to stop physical ageing at specific point.

So at what point would you choose to stop physically ageing.

Sure, it's human enough for many people to want to die at times, due to a persons nature, thought, or circumstance.

'Can be difficult to die at times.

Stopping my aging process right when I get it, would be fine with me. Be it my current age, 20 years from now, or if I had acquired immortality 10 years ago.

Though stopping the aging process at the 'prime of life seems the most functional.