Immortality Pill

[AliasTheory]

You might be immortal, but it doesn't mean you won't suffer. It would be just like being some of those older folk who are stuck living with their physical disabilities for the rest of their lives. Crippled limbs, not being able to talk, hear or see. My grandmother has Alzheimer's, and I can only imagine what things will be like in the not-too-distant future. If I were in her position, I wouldn't want someone dedicating his or her life taking care of me.

 

And it doesn't mean you won't age. As we wither and grow old, we'll eventually take on some of the problems associated with it.

 

Seriously. If I got stabbed by 100 swords at the same time with one to the face, I would still be alive. That would suck. It might hurt. Just a little.

 

Therefore, my answer is no; I'd like to die like everyone else.

Edited December 5, 2010 by AliasTheory

[ita]

I voted no, I wouldn't want to grow old and more decrepit as the centuries pass by. Also things would quickly become really boring when some comet/asteroid strikes and shatters the Earth in the distant future, leaving you floating in space.

 

The good people at cracked.com happen to have an article on this very subject.

[JohannesGunn]

So, basically the consensus is that very few people would take an immortality pill? Huh.... I never would have guessed it.

[martinthemage]

Not a chance. Living forever? Anyone would eventually get tired of it. And seeing so many close friends and relatives dying.. Just think of being alive in 3 quadrillion years. And 3 quadrillion years from that, and from that, and that, and that.. it would be torture having to live for ever. It would mess with your mind too. Just to keep living on and on for ever would make people go mad. I feel uneasy thinkng about it now.

[Balagor]

No thanks. Death is not the true enemy of life, disease and illness are. Death is just the liberator, that comes to our aid in that final moment. Think of your self, struck down by ilness and pain, and you could not die :woot:

[Erfinjerfin]

I would take said pill, but only under a few conditions. One would be if it kept me at the age of my peak physical performance. I'd also like it to be able to make me invulnerable to disease and any sort of wounding. However, if the pill did not provide this, I certainly wouldn't take it. Imagine having taken it, and then experiencing a car crash or other accident that would normally kill you only the spot or shortly after. You would be in severe pain for months, years, or even forever, and honestly, I'd rather be dead than be in eternal pain.

[XanAlderon]

After a while floating through space you would be drawn into a random planets gravity field and spend forever going around and around and around and around

[BlueDanube]

no way i am taking those pill,why would you want to live forever just to see people around you that you know and love pass away one by one.there's a reason why god don't grant us with immortallity and that's for the greater good for sure.

[DarkNinja13]

I'd take it (shot or pill) and would choose a cause I belived in to support and keep supporting it until it becomes fully mainstream.

 

How annoying would it be to have a nemesis who was giving grandpa fits, your dad a mile of grief, and now is the biggest thorn in your side? You can't have this person assassinated because he can't die (you know this because both grandpa and dad tried this already). The best you can hope for is this guy makes a mistake and your children or grandchildren catches it (maybe even great-grandchildren if this guy is cautious).

 

I would want a stipulationon to it though - add something to it to make me young again (like 26 or so), then turn me loose.

[AliasTheory]

After a while floating through space you would be drawn into a random planets gravity field and spend forever going around and around and around and around

Or you could fall into a black hole and go under the theoretical process of spaghettification. That would be pretty cool too.