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i think that experiencing all the things & people i care about would be the worst of it.
either that or seeing us repeat history over and over again as a society complete with all of the indifferent cruelties it entails and studying it, but ignoring it anyways
All the people trying to dissect you for science.
Idk id be super depressed if I was able to experience my family, friends, family's children, and so on die.
outlasting humanity and all its trappings
As OP mentioned, a lot of replies focus on loss, that friends will inevitably die and objects will break........ we already face that reality with regular life! That's hardly a downside of immortality itself.
being alive
Everyone else in your life that isn't immoral (if you're the only one who is) dies eventually, so every time you make a friend or start a family, you do so knowing that you will have to watch them all die someday.
Watching history repeat itself.
If everyone gets to be immortal, imagine never being able to get rid of dictators. Putin's 600th won election.
People in the future wouldn't be allowed to have children, Earth will be filled to the brim with very old people and very few new ideas.
Man, you took it too real too quick