Immortality, with a price...

[Autofaux]

Imagine, you were born immortal, unable to age past the end of puberty. A divine fuck up of royal magnitude. You couldn't be killed, couldn't age. Sure, that's fine for a while, but I've read enough books and watched enough movies to know that immortality gets boring after a while, and in the end, mortality gets us all.

However, there is a massive price if you want to be able to die. Every single sentient being on the planet would have to die first.

Sure, it would be fun tearing through a few murderers, tyrants, rapists, paedophiles and so forth, but in the end you have to start killing innocents.. like children, and newborns.

At the end of the road, would you give up your humanity in order to die? Or would you live forever to keep it, when in the end you'd probably go insane from boredom..

Or, would you find a way to do it without, you know, knifing everyone, shooting and nuking everyone. If anyone has seen Children of Men, I'd find a way to make that happen instead.

Discuss!

 

[Shockolate]

Third option: Become a super hero and fight crime!

 

[XzarTheMad]

I'd bear the crux of being immortal, then.
6.8 billion human beings versus one. In the end, humanity would probably destroy itself, and then I could die.

Not that I want that kind of life. I see the first couple of centuries could be fun. But when you've had too many of those you love die on you, or just grow old, well..

Reminds of a story from the Sandman comics, actually. I liked that one.

 

[Zyxx]

Can I cheat by going to another planet? No? Worth a shot, anyway.
I suspect that sooner or later I'd go so insane that the prospect of slaughtering innocents would no longer concern me.
If not, I'd probably just wait - after all, the planet itself isn't immortal: sooner or later it's going to be engulfed by the sun or cracked in half by a meteor. In the meantime, there's drug-induced coma.

 

[binvjoh]

I'd still want to become immortal. Once I've seen absolutely everything the world has to offer I'm sure I've come up with some reason of higher understanding which justifies killing everyone.

 

[Omikron009]

I'd probably end up traveling the galaxy in a stolen space-longship on a quest to insult every sentient being in the universe. That would be fun for a while.

 

[Jarcin]

I mean if you have an infinite amount of time to kill and you can't die, no harm in learning a bit and having fun right?

Besides, thinking of teen titans (IT WAS A GOOD SHOW!!! <.<), an immortal man makes the best adviser, as he has seen the consequence of almost every action.

 

[Leg End]

That's a price? I'd just live forever without innocents in my body count.

Plus, it's not much different from my current arrangement. The only difference is with my current one I get a new body after every death with it already being nigh impossible to kill me.

 

[Jazzyjazz2323]

I'd sit around for oh another 28 thousand years and if humanity is still around I'll totally become the God Emperor of Mankind.

 

[somonels]

I hope everybody realizes that this is another topic based on murder.

 

[CptRumGuy]

If I ultimately ended up killing everyone, I think I would do the opposite of what OP said. I would start with infants, children, etc. and work my way up to the more evil, psychotic folk. I mean if I'm immortal, I have to give myself SOMETHING of a difficulty curve, right?

I think I would finish up with Congress.

But honestly if I got too bored with life I would probably find a way to float into the sun. See if that kills me.

 

[StraightToHeck]

Third option: Become a super hero and fight crime!

an excellent idea, good sir!

 

[wolffy4]

I would stay alive and do everything I have ever wanted to do and when that stops being fun there is always paddle ball

 

[StraightToHeck]

I suppose I'd go with it for a few thousand years or so, then, if humanity hasn't killed itself off by then and realized that the 5,000-year-old teenager has all the answers by now, I'd rule the world

If not, then I'd probably grow sick(er) of humanity and start maimin' my way through

 

[Wintermoot]

I would use it to explore the world that is ever changing

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Well, that's not really immortality with a price, is it? I mean, it sounds you can be immortal without giving up anything. Sure, philosophers tell us that immortality isn't all it's cracked up to be, but the how the hell do they know? Maybe immortality is fucking awesome.

As far as I'm concerned, I can stay entertained for eternity, I just need a little creativity. And as long as I'm entertained, humanity is safe.

I hope everybody realizes that this is another topic based on murder.

Uh...How many have there been? Is there a problem?

 

[Jekken6]

Do what that immortal guy did in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series

Spoiler

insult everyone in the universe, in alphabetical order

 

[Keepitclean]

I would rather die tomorrow than be immortal. I'm not sure if I was given the choice I would choose death though, my instinct to stay alive wouldn't have it.

If I were to choose this brand of immortality and had to destroy all the sentients on Earth I would most likely do it through disease.

 

[DanielBrown]

As already said in this thread; mankind is doomed anyways, so I might as well take it with me when it's close to the edge.

Also, I'd be a super villain.

 

[Kaltazraza]

I choose to wait until the end of the world, where everyone dies. Or just wait till someone makes an anti-age elixir.