Originally Posted by Faustling

Or maybe, for once, it didn't suck. Vampires or not, I find it hard to think of any immortals in litterateur that really enjoyed their long life. Some might handle it better then others but I've yet to read someone say: "It sure feels great to live forever and I can always get new loved ones as the old ones die". I'm sure there are examples of this as well but I bet they're fewer then the "Oh, the immense angst of immorality" or at least "Oh, the angst of the price I must pay to stay alive".

Originally Posted by ClancyBoy

Depends.

If they're sooper kewl l33t immortal Anne Rice style vampires, then yes that's dumb. What if immortality came with a terrible price though? What if immortality, in a word, sucked.
What if something along the lines of Huxley's After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, or Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray happened? That could be interesting.

There are so many reasons that people weren't meant to live forever. You could really go any direction with that. Does eternal life guarantee eternal youth? Probably not. Imagine how worn-out and gnarly a human body would look after 900 years. I mean, just the wear and tear on the joints alone...

Also insanity is an absolute given. Insanity on a level never before witnessed.