Response: Inevitable Boredom?

In response to Brandon Gaudet's post "Life and Death: Two Sides of the Same Coin?" (March 29, 2012):

So far as humanity has discovered, no immortal, sentient entities exist at the current moment.  However, the popularity of the concept of immortality in literature has exhibited that human perception of the idea tends to take on one of two general views.  The first of these is that immortality only takes place in ideal settings (heaven, etc.) or as a form of eternal punishment (i.e. hell), and in the context of divine power.  This is likely a simple manifestation of humanity's virtually unanimous fear of death, by incorporating a lack of death into any ideal reality.  The second view is that immortality, while initially pleasant, eventually becomes tedious, and immortal beings end up seeking a way to terminate their existences.

Whether this latter view would hold true in reality is less than clear - after all, as humans do not have any experience with immortal beings, any human views on the subject (no matter how common) are purely hypothetical.  It seems possible that, as the universe is constantly in a state of change, an immortal being would not become fatally bored.  This is not to say that such a being might not decide to terminate their existence for some other reason - frustration with other beings, continual grief over the deaths of other beings, curiosity about the possibility of an afterlife - but merely that boredom alone might well not be enough to cause such a decision.