Pyoro posted:
Forgetting regularly is the only viable type of immortality.
Because otherwise, the weight of memories becomes unbearable and you'd become insane.
I think a "normal memory" as everyone else has is perfectly sufficient. I know it's part of the immortality trope that it comes with thís downside of being sometimes more and sometimes less depressing because everybody else dies, but if I ie look at my great-grandmother who died at 95 and had lost literally everyone in her life expect for the younger generations and even there not all of them, then how's that different from the typical "immortal"? She certainly didn't go insane with grief.
People die, you are sad, and then you move on. It's perfectly possible for a human to cope with that with no special mechanism involved ^^;
I didn't say it was because the loss of loved ones/family/everyone you know. People can overcome that kind of grief.
I said "the weight of memories". How can you remember everything that happened in your life if it is endless? And in the same fashion that you become numb to the loss of people, because they are just passing in a flash, you become numb to life itself, because at some point, you'd become bored. If you're eternal, there's no point to anything.
Imagine the protagonist loses herself in sex with other women for centuries. Unless she's a saint, she can't love all of them until they die and keep on thinking of them forever. And at some point, sex would become a chore, because, you know... been there, done that. If you have all eternity, eternal youth and any wound is eventually healed, then even if you go to extreme sex or fetishes, once you've seen all, it becomes pointless.
Unless you're insane. Or you forget.
Eventually, having a really long life would be interesting if you can explore the universe and find new things? Alien sex may be a thing, who knows.
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