Would you share immortality

[Korak the Mad]

No. No I would not.

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

I fully agree.

Sure, immortality may seem fun at first, but you will soon regret that you are immortal. You will become a being that will never be happy for you will only want to die.

Think about it, watching everything you cherish crumble to dust over time.

I would never want to be immortal for I would always see the effects that time will have on everything around me.

 

[Lenteja]

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?

You'd be extremly lonely. Maybe share it with a couple of friends.

 

[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?

You'd be extremly lonely. Maybe share it with a couple of friends.

I get annoyed with my friends on a regular basis, that and im not really that close to anyone, not close enough to want to spend eternity with them anyway.

 

[xdom125x]

I'd use it and share it with a few friends and try to make sure that nobody besides them knows about it, so that nobody knows that I am depriving them of immortality and dooming(/blessing?) them with death.

Edit: Also, I always wondered what it would be like to live so long that I'd go insane. And by extension, I wondered what it would be like to live so long that I go sane again, very sane.

Immortality, so you can't die. Of age. But theres still plenty of things waiting to kill you.

I'm confused here (I am assuming you meant to type "of" and not "or"). They can't kill you if you are immortal, nothing can. So they'd be waiting forever, or rather about 50 years, until they die.

 

[Mike Laserbeam]

I discover immortality? I'm keeping it for myself then!
Maybe if I find people I could REALLY trust I'd share it, in a Baccano! kind of way I'd hope. But then again, if it's Baccano! immortality the other immortals would be the only danger to me...

So I think I'd keep it a secret. I don't think there's anybody I would be able to stomach for eternity, everyone gets tiresome eventually...

 

[CrystalShadow]

I would use it.

I might share it with others, but it depends on if I can devise a way to deal with the consequences, and also to avoid it being something that can be easily controlled and manipulated.

Having a planet full of immortals would get messy.

Having a planet with a bunch of immortals withholding the key to immortality for the sole purpose of abusing those that aren't immortal...
Not so much.

(That does of course raise the inevitable question of if I can be trusted in that way, since the scenario the OP presents does exactly that; It makes me (initially at least), the arbiter of who does, and does not get to be immortal.)

 

[putowtin]

if you live forever you have to live without those you love, and I don't need the ones I love to see me as a wrinkly old cow, so no on both accounts!

 

[MasterOfWorlds]

Is there a "sort of" option? I'd share it, but not with the world. My gf, my close friends and family maybe. That's assuming that they would want it though. Some people wouldn't, but I think it'd be cool.

 

[-Dragmire-]

Immortality yes - I want to see how bad we fuck up the future/meet aliens.

Share no - without mortality human kind will have no reason to progress/rampant overpopulation and all that crap

 

[The Hero Killer]

I would share with with family and anyone else I couldnt bear to lose due to the passage of time. Hopefully it would be something I could bestow upon people without their knowing so other people wont come looking to recieve the same gift.

 

[Volkade]

I would become immortal, and share the immortality to a select few, on the condition that I knew how to take their immortality back, even at the cost of keeping mine forever. I would never die, but allow them to. (Mostly because I could see myself getting irritated far too easily from them.)

Sure all you cherish would crumble, but you'd begin to accept and understand it as part of lfie. Maybe even convince them that mortality is a gift.

 

[not-sid]

Immortality sucks. I can see the value in that, but having to constantly make new friends and see old ones die would really suck.

 

[Akytalusia]

if it meant i couldn't die, then no, and i would destroy the evidence.
if it meant i wouldn't age, then yes, and i would hide the evidence, and conditionaly share it.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

I'd share it with my immediate family, my best friends, my spouse if I had one, and my dogs.

 

[kypsilon]

I'm going to assume you mean immortal in the sense that you aren't going to get old and die, but that other factors such as accidents and mob hits are still in play. If so, taking on immortality would then become a question of how else do you want to die. Having a random piano fall on your head for example. Eventually you will have an accident of some kind and with immortality it's only a matter of time.

But yes, I think I'd go for it though only if it served a greater purpose. Would I share it? Absolutely not. I can't guarantee anybody's ability to handle eternity mentally and I certainly don't want to be blamed for the creation of some sort of immortal psychopath who wants nothing but the destruction of the world because after 3000 years of living he just can't take it anymore. Not that that's likely, he'd probably fall down a flight of stairs and die before living that long.

 

[Drtfgf5]

If I got this immortality stuff, I would share it with my bulimic cat...
my cat seriously has it.

 

[Starik20X6]

I would take it that this immortality wouldn't protect you from unnatural deaths (shot, hit by car, fall from cliff etc.) but would simply allow you to resist all illness and not expire from age. If that's the case, then I would share it with the world, as you could easily opt out of it later if you got bored. However, if it would completely make you eternally invincible, it would become a much heavier issue. I'd probably only share it with the people closest to me and with utmost secrecy. It's sad, but there'd be too greater risk involved in sharing it globally. What's to stop the next great dictator applying it to him/herself and their armies?

 

[Agnalb]

I would use it on myself and then use it to pick up girls, "Hey baby, wanna be immortal?"

 

[karamazovnew]

Immortality in a sense of staying healthy at the same age forever while still being vulnerable to all unnatural types of death would be cool. And yeah, this medical technology might just be around the corner. Overpopulation wouldn't be a problem as long as people remember to use a F condom. It might just make the world a better place, who knows.

Any other kind of immortality is quite dangerous unless it's coupled with invulnerability. I mean, anybody here remember the Sloth from the movie Seven? Teleportation, time control, maybe a few offensive abilities too. On the other hand, If I were to ever find such a magic formula, there's no way I'd share it.

However, there is a combination of the two. I've dreamt about this since the movie Matrix.
Imagine being able to live forever inside a Matrix pod, always being aware that it's just a single-player simulation, always able to use any power, do anything you like and always able to wake up and hit the "kill" switch when you become bored after 200000 billion years.