In the novels that Andrew the Robot and I read, both people are immortal, but they are very painful. In the end, one chooses to die, and the other is very happy because of the loss of the ability to "immortality". In my opinion, there are two very important factors: one is social disapproval, and the other is the lack of peers.
1. Social disapproval
There is a question implicit in the film: how can one be called a human being, and what is a human being? The robot Andrew has been labelled a "robot" by society and is not recognized as a natural person. Although at that time, physiologically, many natural people had been replaced with one or more mechanical organs, the most obvious boundaries between robot Andrew and natural people had been broken. In terms of thinking and emotion, Andrew has the ability to think and create, and has the same emotions as human beings.
Andrew is fortunate to serve an open-minded and inclusive intellectual family. So after he awakened his self-consciousness, his director did not reject panic towards him, but accepted him naturally, treated him as a natural person, and let him learn human knowledge and receive human education. However, it is unfortunate that he has learned and accepted human knowledge and ideas, but has never been recognized as a "human" by society. Because of this disapproval, his young lady and his feelings could not be expressed, and the young lady could only marry someone else. His relationship with his wife is not legally recognized. The importance of this kind of legal relationship identification is reflected in the American drama sense8 (a lesbian, because of the legal disapproval of this kind of relationship, has the right to decide whether to accept prefrontal lobe surgery only if it does not agree with her family. Decided to undergo prefrontal lobe surgery).
2. Lack of companions
In this world, only Andrew is human but not human. He alone is a race. This feeling of loneliness and not being recognized by society made Andrew embark on the road of finding his own kind after Miss married. In the end, he did not find any companions, only he was immortal. Emotionally Andrew is no different from a human being, and he needs company. But immortality means that he has to constantly experience the death of the people he accompanies. It's a pain with no end in sight. Either die alone, or experience constant pain and grief. Because once he becomes emotionally invested in another person, he experiences that person's death.
Is it because Andrew is unwilling to endure the vague rejection and loneliness of society against him, and is unwilling to experience the death of his wife again, so he chooses to die.
Do people really come into the world to suffer? Is happiness really short-lived and pain eternal? Eternal life brings eternal pain, beyond short-term happiness, to make people feel that eternal life is not happy?
If there are two longevity people and Andrew has one companion, will the result be different?
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