Immortality! And all it will cost are your "family jewels"

[captainwalrus]

No. I don't want to be immortal let alone be a vasectomized immortal.

 

[ssgt splatter]

Well technically we could still have sex we just couldn't procreate.

But in all honesty, I think being immortal would be more of a curse than a gift. Living for countless centuries expierencing who knows how many wars between man...or aliens...or machines, witnessing famine if we don't abide to the rules posted in the OP since we couldn't produce enoguh food to sustain an unknown population, and the only way to die would be in battle or through murder. I'd rather die in my sleep than have someone kill me violently.

 

[TheScottishFella]

I don't think I would want the immortality serum to begin with. I haven't accepted death but living forever would just be boring. You know most things can be just be a spur the moment sort of thing, if you lived forever life would be so bland.

 

[Sux2bu]

Ill do it if i could still have sex.

Never wanted kids anyway, my genomes suck.

 

[instantbenz]

I suppose so. Though generally Immortality is best when combined with invincibility, or at least some sort of advanced healing power.

I'd probably do it (sterility, not getting my balls chopped off)

That said, this would be so much more fun if we were immortal, invincible, and had some sort of healing power. Wolverine-style healing. Also, there's no more disease, and I can still enjoy food and drink without actually needing it, and it doesn't make me any fatter. There! The only problem left is having to deal with my loved ones dying.

consider them like pets ... they come and go ... sadly

Yeah when I first read the question I said 'done!'. I have thought it over a great deal and my girlfriend and I have zero interest in ever having children ... just pets

 

[wildpeaks]

Fuck that. Immortality would suck.

+1 Once Earth is gone and all aliens are dead too, you'll be frakking bored for the rest of eternity :/

 

[rutger5000]

I can't imagine a greater curse then immortality. Perhaps I would allow myself to become immortal if it would erase all knowledge about weaponry and warfare and prevent humans to discover how to kill with anything other then their hands. Anything less wouldn't cut it for me.
Life is great because it's finite.

 

[Pyromaniak3]

it depends... if everyone is doing it then no... what happens when one of them gets "his head cleaved" nobody is, i guess, is going to fill his spot... plus if i had a horrible job i wouldn't want to live forever... unless that means i didnt have to eat or drink... then i would quit my job and go do whatever i want.

 

[Ohhi]

Sure why not I have no problem with not having children and I dont want to have any children exposed to my parents so yeah I would then I would go live in the mountains for a while and watch the world collapse in on itself and after the nuclear holocaust I would come out of seclusion and begin a new world order.

 

[higgs20]

To mirror the sentiments of almost everyone in this thread:

just being made sterile: done.
never having sex again: nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo thanks.

EDIT: although it would probably get really boring, I think the draw of being immortal would be to see the world and people around you change while you remained a constant, I suppose it would be one hell of a power trip. if everyone was immortal then nothing would ever change. So if it was just me being made this offer yeah i'd do it, if it was everyone i'd still do it i guess but i'd probably be less enthusiastic about the whole thing.

 

[higgs20]

get it done then adopt? just a thought.

 

[Carlston]

vasectomy , still have sex.

Sure why not. If anything least i know the ol ball won't be giving me terminal cancer.

 

[Lightnr]

Nope, I wouldn't accept it, because without the possibility of having children in the future most of the meaning of my life would vanish. I can accomplish and experience all that I want to in this life in about 70 to 80 years before I pass on baton to my descendants to carry on for me. In my mind more happiness over would be gained from many generations of different people than one me forever (or atleast a very long time).

Wisdom amongst the inexperience.

 

[William Dickbringer]

ohhhh vasectomy I was thinking castration anyway yeah sure (could always adopt if I wanted to be a father)
Never having sex again? No just plain no

 

[RatRace123]

I'd take immortality, I hate kids and living in a world without any (on my part, at least) just sounds fantastic!

 

[hawkeye52]

yes i would since i don't really care if i don't have children. Also if im desperate for a child then i'll just adopt

What if everyone else in the world chose the option as well and there'd be no children to adopt?

chances are it wouldn't come to this since at least some people would decide to have their own children but if so then they could start offering very lucrative schemes for parents to have their own children as opposed to adopting

 

[teutonicman]

YES! I was kind of worried by your title at first. I thought your trade for immortality was to become a eunuch. But if it's just a lack of off spring then I would take that offer so fast.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

Suppose that the mad scientists working in their labs one day stumble across the elixer of eternal life. Its easy to mass produce, and drinking it will make you BIOLOGICALLY immortal. This means you won't age or die from disease, but if you get cleaved in the head with an axe, you're pretty much gone. Think elf immortality.

There's a problem however. If everyone is immortal, and having kids who are also immortal, who will also have kids that are immortal, we're gonna run out of room pretty damn fast. So, the catch is that you have to get a vasectomy if you're a man or your tubes tied if you're a woman and be completely unable to have children for the rest of your ungodly lifespan.

Would you take the offer? Would you take it if it instead came not just at the cost of being able to have children, but at the cost of never having sex again?

To your original question, sure. I'm pretty much done with my ovaries anyway - I can't get cancer in a bodypart that's been removed. ^^

To the second - no. Life wouldn't be worth living. But... to that, I have to say, while your original idea made sense, the second one doesn't actually make sense - if one is medically sterlized, then what would the rationalle be for limiting sex?

 

[Mr.Squishy]

Sterility is worth it, but I'd rather die than have my balls removed. Immortality's not worth that.

This. I'd go sterile in a heartbeat, the immortality would be a bonus.

 

[XzarTheMad]

Without reproducing, fuck yes. Without sex? Fuck no. Yes, I value sex over life itself. Moreso in the vein that it's a very base requirement for the human psyche to work properly, and not being able to satisfy it is sure to mess with your shit. Being immortal and looney wouldn't be all that fun.