Would you want immortality?

[FoolKiller]

If I get to cut the heads off of other immortals then I am definitely in.

If not, then yeah I would still take it. I just imagine being around to see what the future would really be like. It would be awesome to see actual space travel to other planets and star systems. You would learn so much and while things could get boring and watching other die may be depressing there would be so much to do and you would have the time to accomplish every goal you ever dreamed of.

And if I somehow found I didn't have money I could just volunteer to let scientists study me for a month if they pay me enough.

and money. Can you imagine never having to retire? Constantly building up cash and benefiting from 100s of years of compounding interest???

You'd be filthy rich after the first 200 years for sure.

(just crunched the numbers: $10,000 put in the market at year 1 with a 6% return means over $3 million after 100 years. After 200 years it's $1,086,093,433)

Imagine buying up $50 portraits and artwork now and holding on to them a few hundred years and then selling them. Imagine if you could have bought a van Gogh or Da Vinvci painting when they were first painted and held on to them until today. Or any kind of artifact from something like the Ming Dynasty.


And of course I would have to have fun with it. I would have to try every single stupid stunt possible. I would probably even let someone think they killed me and then start sneaking around there house like I was haunting them.

See, I can find a way to dwindle away the boredom.


I still say sword fights are the way to go though.

 

[Omnis]

Until things get ugly, I'll just enjoy life for a really loooong time. You'd really be able to amass some serious knowledge in that amount of time... and money. Can you imagine never having to retire? Constantly building up cash and benefiting from 100s of years of compounding interest???

You'd be filthy rich after the first 200 years for sure.

(just crunched the numbers: $10,000 put in the market at year 1 with a 6% return means over $3 million after 100 years. After 200 years it's $1,086,093,433)

You'd also be 200 years into fiat monetary policy. 1 billion dollars sounds nice until your bread costs 2 grand.

 

[zoxxy]

No.

I'd like to be invulnerable though.

 

[Jondot]

No, but I wouldn't mind being 20 something for the next 80 years and then dying.

 

[Dougboy]

No.

I'd like to be invulnerable though.

Hell, even a healing factor like wolverine would be cool enough

 

[TwinTurboJay]

I said no. Life would hold no adventure after awile, there would be no risk in anything you do, and the flavour of life would soon turn sour.

 

[PLmatt91]

No. Overcrowding. Life would be hell.

I say no, mostly agree with this guy.

 

[Keichi Tsuchiya]

No, with the crap bound to happen sooner or later I'd rather be 6 feet under than still here.

 

[Kent]

It's funny this came up, last night's Cowboy Bebop was something like Sympathy For The Devil (I think) and it's all about a kid given immortality (probobably along the stake and head lines). Because of an accident a specific bullet had to be used, blah blah...

If I was given the choice, I wouldn't be able to decide. After serious thought I may come back and answer. As of now though, I look at the rewards and punishments for both... Neither is without drawbacks. Immortality could take a toll on your heart but I suppose you could bear the burden?!
Likewise, not being immortal certainly garuntees death.

Now that I say it like that, I'd definately be in on the deal. 👍
World domination comes to mind but small empire could work as well.

 

[Nicknamealguem]

Well, I was about to say no, but after I’ve seen this post:

I seriously LOL'd at this one.

I'm of the same opinion... but for more pragmatic reasons... say, a million years from now... I'm the last human on Earth... none of the creatures left are genetically similar enough for me to... uhm... you know... with. That would be a bummer.

And give it ten million years... Ice Age? Greenhouse? I'd be itchy as hell or freezng to undeath.

Another hundred million... a billion? Asphyxiating from lack of oxygen... starving to undeath over and over again... not my idea of a good time.

And by the heat death of the universe, I'll probably have gone crazy a billion times over... eyeballs cracked and frozen, drifting in a vacuum for megayears... such fun...

I think immortality would be great. (Just kidding)



I just don’t understand some people; all afraid of the End of the World…we are going to die, in this way or another…

But, I don’t think immortality would be a good thing.

 

[Matt R]

Wouldn't people begin notice that you haven't aged and that you've been living for 300 years?

 

[Gil]

Do I get the "power" of other immortals when I cut off their heads?

Actually, no I don't want to be immortal.
I'm 43 and I know so much more now than I did when I was in my "prime".

Add to that, If you are a lone immortal, watching the people you love grow old and die over and over would kinda suck.

 

[Casio]

What would happen if you were 'immortal' and got shot in the face with a shotgun or something? Would you continue to live with no face or what?

 

[3-Wheel Drive]

I vote no. That way I wouldn't have to battle it out with everyone else in the thread that voted yes.

There can be only one.

 

[OZZYGT]

Immortality would lead to emo-tality after a few centuries. I'd rather die than be emo and try to kill myself.

Beautiful

 

[Sharky.]

[sciency take on things]
I voted no. If one was immortal, that would mean when the sun engulfs the earth like it's apparently going to do, you'd be cast out into space and be floating there forever. That would be hell.
[/sciency take]

Besides, you'd be immortal but your loved ones wouldn't be, and it wouldn't be pleasant watching them kick the can while you lived on, not ageing one bit.

 

[Sakiale]

**** no. This world is full of ****, why would I want to stay here? And I'm Buddhist, and according to Buddhism it just gets worse until like 50 million years later when another bodhisattva comes on this world and makes it right again.

 

[Philly]

Besides, you'd be immortal but your loved ones wouldn't be, and it wouldn't be pleasant watching them kick the can while you lived on, not ageing one bit.

That's what frat parties are for.

 

[Barracuda]

It would be good if you were a murderer. 25 consecutive life sentences... psh, i have time.

 

[Small_Fryz]

Ok, I don't think I'd want to be completely indestructible. But if someone's offering me a Dracula type situation where I can die, but only in a very specific way (but without the need to drink the blood of the living of course), I could get on board with that.

If things start to get ugly, I'll end it myself. At least death will be on my own terms.

Until things get ugly, I'll just enjoy life for a really loooong time. You'd really be able to amass some serious knowledge in that amount of time... and money. Can you imagine never having to retire? Constantly building up cash and benefiting from 100s of years of compounding interest???

You'd be filthy rich after the first 200 years for sure.

(just crunched the numbers: $10,000 put in the market at year 1 with a 6% return means over $3 million after 100 years. After 200 years it's $1,086,093,433)

It would suck that I'd outlive my wife... and children... and their children... But I don't think that would be reason enough to not take the immortality option. Unless you're willing to commit suicide after your loved ones are gone, immortality should still be a viable option. And if you ARE willing to commit suicide, I'd presume that you're able to. So either way, immortality isn't holding you back - it's just offering you persistent youth throughout the length of life that you choose to live.

It's actually a no-brainer.

Ditto. The knowledge, it would suck to see people die for sure, but hows that different to normal life? Its just that it will happen a bit more often. Youd still be able to know them for 80 - 90 years. Imagine being 20,000 years old haha. Awesome.

 

[TheCracker]

Ditto. The knowledge, it would suck to see people die for sure, but hows that different to normal life? Its just that it will happen a bit more often. Youd still be able to know them for 80 - 90 years. Imagine being 20,000 years old haha. Awesome.

If you've ever had anyone close to you die, especially if it was before their time, you'd know how much that can effect you mentally.

I can see that the death of loved ones would impact on your immortality in either of two ways:

1) The hurt that you receive when a loved one dies is compounded up many times over and you turn into a dribbling wreck, unable to form relationships with 'mortals' having a screwed up view of mortality and therefore your morality goes out of the window so you end up having no respect for life and turn into a mass murderer.

2) You become so immune to death and people dying that life, especially other peoples, becomes worthless and you turn into a mass murderer.

 

[Barracuda]

If you've ever had anyone close to you die, especially if it was before their time, you'd know how much that can effect you mentally.

I can see that the death of loved ones would impact on your immortality in either of two ways:

1) The hurt that you receive when a loved one dies is compounded up many times over and you turn into a dribbling wreck with a screwed up view of mortality and therefore your morality goes out of the window in respect to death so you end up having no respect for life and turn into a mass murderer.

2) You become so immune to death and people dying that life, especially other peoples, becomes worthless and you turn into a mass murderer.

Whats wrong with mass murder, especially when your immortal

 

[DuckRacer]

Whats wrong with mass murder, especially when your immortal

OK, so let's say you commit a major terrorist attack, killing thousands of innocent men, women, and children. You are caught and sentenced to rot thousands of years in prison. Maybe suffer rape multiple times while in there.

Yep, I agree with you. Nothing wrong at all.

I'm hoping you were actually sarcastic, in which case wasn't that clever to begin with.

 

[FoolKiller]

OK, so let's say you commit a major terrorist attack, killing thousands of innocent men, women, and children. You are caught and sentenced to rot thousands of years in prison. Maybe suffer rape multiple times while in there.

Start a prison fight, get shivved and play dead until they have carted your body out.

Of course I guess it all determines how this immortality thing works. If deadly action put you out for a bit then you wake up this could work, but if you just keep on going, despite all damage, then you are screwed. Of course, I guess that would work to your advantage in an escape.

 

[Danoff]

Of course, there's always the Prometheus scenario to be concerned about.

 

[FoolKiller]

Of course, there's always the Prometheus scenario to be concerned about.

Being chained to a rock while a bird eats my liver day after day?

 

[Barracuda]

OK, so let's say you commit a major terrorist attack, killing thousands of innocent men, women, and children. You are caught and sentenced to rot thousands of years in prison. Maybe suffer rape multiple times while in there.

Yep, I agree with you. Nothing wrong at all.

I'm hoping you were actually sarcastic, in which case wasn't that clever to begin with.

Terrorist is such a dirty word . You don't have to commit a large scale attack to become a mass murderer. You could even plan it out over hundreds of years.

It wouldn't be to hard to hide out for a long time. Osama bin laden has yet to be found and he has a brain the size of a peanut.

And no Duck, I wan't being sarcastic

 

[DuckRacer]

Terrorist is such a dirty word . You don't have to commit a large scale attack to become a mass murderer. You could even plan it out over hundreds of years.

OK then. So let's say you take part in a school shooting, killing dozens of innocent people who did you no harm. You go to prison, get raped, etc.

It wouldn't be to hard to hide out for a long time. Osama bin laden has yet to be found and he has a brain the size of a peanut.

He's the world's most wanted man, successfully hiding from one of the most advanced militaries on the planet for years. Somehow, I don't think he's stupid.

And no Duck, I wan't being sarcastic

 

[Barracuda]

OK then. So let's say you take part in a school shooting, killing dozens of innocent people who did you no harm. You go to prison, get raped, etc.

If I were immortal and i were to mass murder i wouldn't be so stupid as to shoot up a school. Tactically that is the worst possible thing that you can do. I'd say the best way to do it would be small mountain towns, with a sniper rifle. Mass murder also doesn't have to mean killing a bunch of people at just one time, you have an eternity.


And who says that i would be raped. I have an eternity to build up my muscles to the point where others are afraid that i may rape them.

Can't see the image, will have to wait until i get home.

 

[DuckRacer]

If I were immortal and i were to mass murder i wouldn't be so stupid as to shoot up a school. Tactically that is the worst possible thing that you can do. I'd say the best way to do it would be small mountain towns, with a sniper rifle. Mass murder also doesn't have to mean killing a bunch of people at just one time, you have an eternity.

My point is, murdering anyone for the sake of killing is repulsive. If you're going to camp on top of building killing people, do it in a video game.

Can't see the image, will have to wait until i get home.

It's just a smiley face.