Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24163511-20140302051112/@comment-24163511-20140304051306

AwesomeSteven wrote: Hard Licks wrote: If he could live forever, then he would stop aging at some point and the people in Beach City, who can't live forever, will i think, die?

Seems crazy. What will he do without Connie or his dad Ah, this is why Mortals can not become immortal alone, it would mean destroying everything that makes us human, to deprive ourselves of love would make life meaningless. You are not living, you are merely surviving as everything else around you dissipates like sand castles. This is only the case for those who must face immortality alone, however. Having your loved ones become immortal would be one of the few loopholes to avoiding insanity, it would in essence be like ascending to Heaven sans the eternal peace. So having his fellow Gems to count on would be a good way to cope, which is probably how the other gems have maintained their sanity despite seeing countries rise and fall, wars wage, disease plague and countless populations decimated throughout history, when you got family, those things are mitigated and much less taxing.