Poll: Immortality

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Oh hey! Guess what! For the purpose of this thread, you can now buy the ability to stop aging. If you get hit by a car, get shot or eat arsenic you will... still die. You simply stop degenerating and your appearance remains the same whether you're 20 now or 400 tomorrow. Its expensive, taking a lifetime of labor to afford but if you can live six times past your lifetime without accident what does it matter?

Oh, also it only works on people under the age of 33.

(I'm bored and wanted to make a poll thread)

So, do you take up horrible debt in exchange for everlasting[footnote]murder and accident excepting[/footnote] life and watch people who can't (or won't) partake die? Or will you pass on it and work on happiness within your normal lifespan?

You decide!

Spoiler: Me

 

[JoJo]

Sure, sign me up, I want to see the future. At worst if I decide I don't want to live any-more... there are ways of solving that.

 

[American Tanker]

Too many strings attached. I'll pass.

 

[Saelune]

I aspire to become an immortal cyborg so...

And I presume this life debt...doesnt Catch 22 you, cause if you have to be under 33, but it takes you longer than that to afford it...

 

[bartholen_v1legacy]

Just one question: will my looks remain permanently fixed? As in, I can't lose weight, shave my facial hair, get rid of scabs on my body, that kind of thing? Or will my cell structure simply never age beyond how I'm now? If the latter, hell yeah sign me up! I'm gonna need all that extra time to be able to both paint all my wargaming miniatures and play through my Steam backlog anyway. Plus, I'm gonna have a ball of a time living 50 years in a different country under a different name, then coming back and freaking the shit out of my grand-grandchildren.

 

[Baffle]

Since you're being ageist, no, I just have to die. Only once though!

 

[Queen Michael]

Sure. Why would I not accept a deal like that? We have to work anyway.

 

[Ryotknife]

Oh, also it only works on people under the age of 33.

BOOOOOOO!

Oh sure the young people, the one demographic who need immortality the least, get it.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

Nope. I'm already terrified of what Earth will be like when I hit my twilight years, so I don't want to stick around to see how much worse it can get. Plus, the older you get, the faster time passes. Remember, as a kid, Christmas break seems to last forever. As a teenager, it's only a month. As an adult, it's barely two weeks. Imagine how fast time would pass for you if you've been alive for hundreds of years? Everything would just be a blur. You wouldn't bother making new friends, or even getting to know people, because you'd blink and half of them would be dead.

Plus, I see no mention of your mental health not falling apart. Having a body that doesn't age is great, but you mind? There's a story I read once where this exact thing happens. People have found a drug that stops them from physically aging. It's told from the point of view of a caregiver. She's watching a lady, slightly overweight, in her mid forties or fifties, dropping off a hot blond in a wheelchair (probably about twenty-five) who is a drooling mess. The caregiver has nothing but contempt for the older woman, thinking 'How could she let herself fall apart that bad?' and stuff like that. The older lady drops off the blond, half in tears and half in relief, and says, "Goodbye, mom. I'll come visit you, I promise" and then rushes out.
That's when you realize that the blond is the older woman's mom. Her body stayed the same, but her brain gave out. She was suffering from late stage alzheimer's because she was in her nineties or something.
Meanwhile, the caregiver is only concerned about the fact that she has a date with a twenty-three year old that night, even though she's in her late forties.
So yeah, no thanks.

 

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

Nah ... I kind of have a degenerative neurological condition so I wouldn't want to live forever. Unless they manage to cure disease, immortality doesn't interest me.

 

[ArcaneGamer]

Oh hey! Guess what! For the purpose of this thread, you can now buy the ability to stop aging. If you get hit by a car, get shot or eat arsenic you will... still die. You simply stop degenerating and your appearance remains the same whether you're 20 now or 400 tomorrow. Its expensive, taking a lifetime of labor to afford but if you can live six times past your lifetime without accident what does it matter?

Oh, also it only works on people under the age of 33.

(I'm bored and wanted to make a poll thread)

So, do you take up horrible debt in exchange for everlasting[footnote]murder and accident excepting[/footnote] life and watch people who can't (or won't) partake die? Or will you pass on it and work on happiness within your normal lifespan?

You decide!

Spoiler: Me

I'm alright with it. What's the catch? (Also, it'll work on me. 26, soon to be 27. =D)

 

[Pyrian]

Sadly, I am already above the cutoff age. Otherwise, yeah, I'd take that deal.

 

[Guffe]

YAY BACOOOOOONN!!!!!

Other than that, no. Not even a lifelong supply of Bacon with my immortality would get me to say yes, it would be close, but no.

 

[FalloutJack]

I wouldn't mind, but I'm 35. I'll just have to go get cyberware like everyone else.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I'm not eligible. Also I don't want to live forever.

 

[DeadProxy]

Well my question is how is this immortality elixir given to me. Is it a one-shot needle and I'm done? Months/years of gene therapy? Or is it like my paycheck is temporary immortality until I cross the threshold into true immortality? Cause the less involved the process, the more likely I am to take the deal.

I'm already in the group of "Fuck yeah, sign me up!" but the delivery method could sway my opinion, if it was like decades of gene therapy because that doesn't sound enjoyable at all, and it's not even a thing yet that I know of.

But witnessing the end of the world, or at least civilization is a dream of mine, so that'd be worth the investment, as long as I could afford food.

 

[Kyrian007]

Well my question is how is this immortality elixir given to me. Is it a one-shot needle and I'm done? Months/years of gene therapy? Or is it like my paycheck is temporary immortality until I cross the threshold into true immortality? Cause the less involved the process, the more likely I am to take the deal.

I'm already in the group of "Fuck yeah, sign me up!" but the delivery method could sway my opinion, if it was like decades of gene therapy because that doesn't sound enjoyable at all, and it's not even a thing yet that I know of.

Its a daily 2-inch square suppository with sharp edges and a series of large needle shots that have to be placed in the genitalia 4 or 5 times a year.

Oh, I'm over the cutoff age. You young'uns can decide if its worth it.

 

[pookie101]

im older than 33.
hell if there were no debt etc id still say no thank you

 

[Aerosteam]

That's not really immortality, that's more like a super-extended lifespan.

Immortality is to be immune to mortality, as in, you can't die.

Since I can still get killed like a normal person nah, no deal, and I'd definitely like to avoid the massive debt.