Would you share immortality

[rutger5000]

Imagine you somehow uncovered a way that could make you live forever. (From what I understood, it's not even such an impossible idea if you're willing to meddle with your DNA enough). Would you use that way and/or share your discovery with the world?
I personally wouldn't on both accounts. Mortallity is an extremly important aspect of life.

 

[OrenjiJusu]

I would go immortal, but i wouldn't share it.
I'd get to see every new game ever, although admittedly to avoid detection i'd have to "die" evey couple of decades. but seriously i can barely stand myself most of the time, why would i share it?

 

[Alien Mole]

With the world? No. With a select few people I'm reasonably certain I'd be able to stomach for a few centuries, yes.

 

[Communist partisan]

I would do myself immortal and storm the white house and suddenly a immortal warlord sits on a pile of nukes and threat with blowing the world to shit if they don't follow him!

We are talking superhuman immortality, right?

 

[LordOmnit]

I would not share immortality because I don't trust the hands that it could fall into. I also wouldn't use it on myself because I don't want to be immortal as-is and it could possibly be reverse-engineered from my meat-bag self that isn't a highly-trained special-ops agent. Unless it ascended me to a higher plane of existence or made me into a high-powered psionic mage then I would destroy it.

 

[uberDoward]

I'd do it. Would I share? That would take some time to think on... probably with my wife, if she wanted.

Immortality is nice, but pretty sure throwing yourself into a volcano ends you via obliteration, so you DO have a way out

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

No. No I would not.

Sorry, even I don't want to live forever. And I can see nothing but problems coming from this.

 

[TheHighDino]

I don't think I would share it... but i'd use it on myself. Think of all the fun you could do shooting yourself repeatedly in the face.

 

[Magicmad5511]

I would be immortal. I would grant this power to a select group of my friends I think I can trust. We would then use this power to become rich by robbing banks and powerful via taking over organizations, like mafia groups. How could You stop an immortal from taking over right. I would then use this power to become a super villain just for fun.

If I got bored of my immortal friends we could go our separate ways and meet again a few years or centuries later.

 

[Anezay]

I'd do it, and share it with a few random ass people, just for fun.

 

[Tartarga]

Maybe just to screw with someone, i'd show up and make them immortal and say "If you ever want to die you must defeat me in combat." Then I disappear, and for a while the person is able to live with it but eventually grows bored and wants to die. He or she seeks me out after training for battle defeats me, only to learn that I lied. Actually that might be to mean, yeah i'll just keep it to myself thank you.

 

[Tiger Sora]

Immortality, so you can't die. Of age. But theres still plenty of things waiting to kill you. I'd use it. And maybe give it to some people I'm friends with. And once thats done destroy all evidence.

 

[Midnight Crossroads]

Not to everybody. That would ruin the experience. The people I did share it with, I would leave ignorant of the processes. Maybe just make an immortal and watch to see how it plays out. It really depends how the immortality works. Do they not age period or just to 20? What about people above that age? Can they die from injuries, or even be injured at all? It would be fun to play with this. Make a kid immortal. Make an old man on his death bed immortal. I wonder what would happen if I made the Pope or some dictator immortal.

I personally would just invest money and sit around all day. It's not like there would be any pressing issues to solve. I don't need to try to get a job. I don't need to plan for the future. Some of the most important parts of being human would be wiped out.

 

[Booze Zombie]

I would have to keep it to myself, no one else should suffer it.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

With a few people, sure. Otherwise eternity'd get kinda dull. But not with everyone. Otherwise crazy overpopulation would ensue.
Probably with my dog, too. One of the very few living things I've encountered and never got annoyed with. Although I imagine she'd have appreciated it a lot more 2 years or so ago, before she went and got old.

And yes, I would take immortality the second it was offered to me. After a couple of near misses, death terrifies me. And I'd like to see how the world changes over long stretches of time.

 

[synobal]

Sure but only with Morgan Freeman, for his immortality he must follow me around and narrate my life for me.

 

[TheHappySquid]

Maybe just to screw with someone, i'd show up and make them immortal and say "If you ever want to die you must defeat me in combat." Then I disappear, and for a while the person is able to live with it but eventually grows bored and wants to die. He or she seeks me out after training for battle defeats me, only to learn that I lied. Actually that might be to mean, yeah i'll just keep it to myself thank you.

Then you're locked in eternal combat, slowly bringing down buildings, cities, civilisations around you in your epic struggle as the world trembles in fear.

Thousands of years later, after the next ice age, the pair of you thaw out and look around. You see the shattered remains of humanity and brick by brick, step by step. You begin to rebuild what once was.

Do it man. Live.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I would destroy all evidence of the secret and try to eliminate anyone else coming close to the truth. Mankind is horrible enough as it is, we don't need dictators who live forever.