What is the price of your soul?

[DarkSpectre]

Well assuming being death's servant is a bad thing then it is a simple mathematical choice

infinite amount of time in bad situation vs. finite amount of time in good situation
time spent in bad situation > time spent in good situation
as time spent in bad situation approaches infinity proportion of time spent in good situation approaches zero.
Therefor the time spent in good situation was pointless and for all intents and purposes didn't happen.

 

[Horben]

I thought the point was to be inside the realm of possibility? Death is careful enough to find everybody. He wouldn't leave a loophole like immortality.

I already sell my soul every day. The price is forty five thousand dollars a year.

 

[thom_cat_]

In this scenario: pretty much nothing.
In real life... anyone can have my soul if they give me something. Then I'll sell my soul to hundreds of gullible people! Even though it doesn't exist I'll probably skip on someone purchasing it for a dollar or less, that's not worth my time.

 

[Siuki]

If I get an honest job, then yes. I don't know what I'd wish for though...

 

[Scipio1770]

Yes. being an agent of death seems far more interesting than sitting around in heaven doing nothing.

 

[Steamtech]

Eh, depends on how much freedom I had with the wish. I'm thinking: Death's wish: A Genie of the 3 wishes variety. Genie wish 1: All my future wishes go exactly as I intend them too. Genie wish 2: Remove restriction on wishing for more wishes. Genie wish 3: Gee, what do you think? Infinite Genie wishes: No longer owe Death my soul in servitude, world peace, cure AIDS, make the ultimate video game, etc.

 

[Corialos]

I think it would depend on what being Death's servant would entail. Would I be a desk jockey, a badass apprentice of Death, or literally a slave who goes through backbreaking labor to build his summer home for less than minimum wage?

Also, assuming there is an afterlife (which we'll assume that there is, for the sake of argument), there's no way of knowing which one. People here seem to assume that it would inevitably be the Judeo-Christian one, but that could just as easily be untrue. It could also be the dreary caverns of boredom that is the Greek Underworld or the Ancient Egyptian idea of a whole other life in which we interact with the Gods, or even a cosmic ether of insane amounts of complexity, like the universe that Lovecraft believed us to thrive in.

Or, maybe it's nothing. We just fade right into oblivion, and the universe could be moving on in total indifference.

Given the vast realm of possibilities, I think I would ask Death what was in store for me before I made my decision. I mean, he gets what he wants either way, and unlike the traditional demons of various religions, he has nothing to gain by lying to me. It's very possible that he's offering a really sweet deal. And even if it's not, you never said that we couldn't negotiate with him.

Sorry, I'm overthinking it. I'm tired, and need to go to bed.

 

[Judgement101]

My soul would be about..........$2.71.

 

[Soviet Steve]

I would inquire about what the alternatives for a soul to be doing in eternity were, and after being informed of that, I would decide.

If being a servant of death was preferrable however, I would request the sum of $20tn to be mine within a week of being revived. With that sum, I would lead a happy life and improve the world.

 

[Dana22]

A one million dollars !

No in all seriousness, I have no soul.

 

[The Rockerfly]

I have no soul

In a hypothetical situation though, I would ask for the power to control death himself. Therefore he can never take me

 

[Sir Broccoli]

TWO souls!
Also guitar skills.

 

[Biosophilogical]

I would sell my soul for the eternal power of being death's equal. So I go back to my life, can fight off death from my loved ones (subtly of course, i wouldn't let my loved ones know I saved them), then when I die I go back to death as his equal (thereby negating the slavery aspect of the deal) and spend my afterlife maintaining the balance of life and death, helping grieving dead people, and generally just using the presumed trans-dimensional powers to be fun and helpful.

 

[Comma-Kazie]

Success in life, starting with good grades.

And maybe a donut, too.

 

[omicron1]

37c and a candy wrapper.

But due to markups (Capitalism, Ho!), I'll let it go for, oh, a free pass to Heaven and the ability to respawn when I die.

 

[Snotnarok]

Well I'm apparently already in an IOU situation since I was a kid who loved power rangers so I think one Megazord and one Dragonzord means I'm in trouble.

 

[Rouse]

Immortality. If that makes you unable to go to hell after and be the devil's *****.
The other things like money, success, taking over the world etc will come with time, I'll have plenty.