I’ll start off with one, Being upset about a breakup that happened hundreds of years ago.

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  • Heath death of the universe, Death of the sun, etc, does not count. I feel like focusing on this is an overused point.

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  • Loneliness does not count. I feel like we all know immortality means you’ll miss people and lose them.
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Having to keep creating fake identities to prevent people and governments from finding out that you’re immortal. That would be a massive pain in the butt, especially in a world where mass surveillance of the population is common.

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Unless you have a lot of money to rely on I don’t even know if it’s reliably possible right now. You’re basically in the same situation as an undocumented immigrant.

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And the more times you do it, it’s like playing a Russian roulette over and over again, you’ll eventually be caught.

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This would just be an occasional nuisance I reckon. You’d get pretty good at it. Just like all the other mundane things we have to do in our mortal lives.

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What I meant is that it would get more and more difficult with more mass surveillance. Think about it, in 1950 it would take relatively little effort to fake an identity by inserting fake documents into a few physical cabinets. In 2000, cyber security was so weak that hacking to some government agency to modify their databases would be relatively simple. Now it would require advanced social engineering, and is extremely risky, and on top of that, they have a lot of mass surveillance.

If we assume everything will have a biometric database, you’ll have to find ways to change your fingerprints and face every few decades.

Over a long enough duration, you are guaranteed to be caught.

(Edit: grammar)

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