You are Immortal.

[someonehairy-ish]

I'd just keep learning new skills, new things. Be able to play every instrument, paint like a master, write, draw, sing, be an expert in every scientific field. Become the ultimate renaissance man; the very pinnacle in everything.

And then once I'd mastered everything, I don't know. Perhaps I'd go on a voyage to the stars. Explore the galaxy. The huge time-spans wouldn't matter to me. Eventually, I'd come back to Earth, and see how it had changed while I'd been away.

 

[JLML]

-Get a gun.

-Shoot myself in the head.

-In front of audiences.

-???????

-Get rich.

Also, science. Lots of science. If I'm immortal I'll be sure to make sure science advances as fast as possible. After all, if nothing new happened then everything would get so boring. D:

 

[jurnag12]

I'll be honest, first thing would be climbing on top of a skyscraper, blasting 'Princes of the Universe' from the top with a big-ass PA, then jumping down, splattering the sidewalk, then calmly getting up and walking away without saying another word.

"I AM IMMORTAL, I HAVE INSIDE ME BLOOD OF KINGS!"

From then on it'd be investing and other long-term plans of making money combined with, I dunno, getting a medical or biological degree so I can study my power and perhaps reproduce it in a synthesized form.

Of course it would not be to the extent of my immortality. I'm not dooming people to that, plus it'd create way too many problems to be worth the trouble.

Then once I engineer 'Eternal-life-in-a-can', I'll make sure it works for a limited amount of time, then make it available for an actually affordable price, both creating a monopoly on the product, which ensures sales, and avoiding the otherwise inevitable uprising of everyone who DOESN'T have millions of dollars for every dose, instead going for something more similar to a "10 bucks a month" plan.

If I get everyone in the first world on that, that's still billions every month.

Then once I have the capital for it, I'll buy out some major corporations, but capable folk in charge of them, and retire to my custom-tailored mansion to start working on spaceflight and terraforming the less habitable regions of the world, all research and staff funded by the above mentioned massive sources of income (Hell, I'll deny my own salary bonuses for the corporation positions. Free PR!).

Also, booze & blow. And other assorted hedonism that is within the realms of legality. Because just because I'm immortal doesn't mean I have to turn into a perverted creep, now does it?

My Science brings all the boys and girls to my yard.......

 

[Gormech]

On second thought, just getting to go out and explore the world would be fun. Don't have to worry about getting shot and thrown in a ditch by some locals just because of how I look. Also, you can avoid a lot of issues with meds as far as pain and stuff goes in emergencies.

 

[Darren Carrigan]

this was meant to quote the TFS hellsing guy but it wont work....

but pretty much what he said

 

[chikusho]

Try to figure out how I could reverse the process. I probably wouldn't reverse it immediately, but I'd want to know how to do it both to understand my own limitations and because, let's be honest, being stuck living alone after the heat death of the universe would be a fate far worse than oblivion. And given that I have no idea how hard reversing immortality would be, I'd want to get on it ASAP so I'm less likely to run out of time. ("Sorry, but the remedy requires a plant that has been extinct for the last 10,000 years!")

This. Being unable to die from injury will ultimately lead to you being stuck in a crumbled building or something after a huge catastrophe. Not to mention outliving friends and family which should get old pretty quick.

 

[J Tyran]

I would not change much at first, probably not for a few centuries. Although periodically I would do something dangerous and exciting. Maybe saving up to do a Felix Baumgartner and then sabotage my chute when noone can see, I can just imagine the camera crews "oh no, oh god no his parachute has failed, his reserve has failed too!! -Footage is cut off-" and then getting up while out of sight of the rescue approaching with their buckets and sponges, acting all dazed and confused and concussed. That would be endlessly amusing to my sick sense of humor with everyone around wondering how I survived and all the experts listing the unusual and infrequent cases of people surviving falls with failed parachutes.

Other than that as a hedonist with no real worries about to much of something killing me or getting locked up to often I would have some real big parties. After all getting dancing naked and off my face in the Fontane di Piazza San Pietro a few times a century and getting arrested is not much of an inconvenience.

 

[Auron225]

1st: Get depressed at the realization that I will outlive everyone I love and will ever love.
2nd: Get even more depressed that when the world eventually ends, I will be floating in space for all eternity - unable to die.

3rd: Go bungee-jumping with liqourice.

 

[Donblas Justicebringer]

I think Cracked.com had a good article on this...sure, it'd be all laughs in the short term, but what happens when humanity out evolves you or you go stark raving nuts from the inevitable isolation?

 

[Jynthor]

Stage my death, rob a few banks, spend money like a mad man!

 

[Nightmare-Child]

Jump into the event horizon of an exploding star and hope that does the trick. I think I would get very bored after a couple thousand years.

 

[Knight Captain Kerr]

Awesome. I love being alive. It is the best thing in the world. Think I would go play XCOM. Maybe Baldur's Gate. Just carry on like normal you know.

 

[Psycomantis777]

Sink myself to the deepest parts of the ocean an' see what's what...
Maybe get some big torches and prove the nonexistence of Atlantis or R'lyeh...

 

[talker]

fins others who are immortal and band together with them to create an new Ent-like society with a rich language and culture and breed like hell, then overthrow all mortals and make them our slaves after a couple hundred years.

oh except for the escapist staff. i would like to create threads asking people what they hate most about the oppresion, then hunt them down and torture them. and i would want Yahtzee to review our games 'throw mortals into volcanoes', 'blow up the ISS', 'throw mortals into the shark tank' and 'give a group of mortals guns so we have an excuse to kill them legally'

Bliss!!!

 

[Ice Car]

So, do you feel pain with this type of immortality? If you live until the end of the world, is there no escape from such endless torture as that?

 

[McMullen]

Circumnavigate the world on foot. Visit every continent. Go places that humans or living creatures in general can't normally or easily go. Learn new trades and live out consecutive lives in different places.

 

[EvilMaggot]

travel the world... go where no humans have ever been before.. deepest oceans the darkest corners of the world

 

[J Tyran]

I think Cracked.com had a good article on this...sure, it'd be all laughs in the short term, but what happens when humanity out evolves you or you go stark raving nuts from the inevitable isolation?

Neither of those is necessarily a bad thing, for a start if humans evolve so far from our current template technology would be around that would allow cloning and AI tech. The more evolved humans might create company for you, hell if techs advanced enough regressing into an "ancient human" might even be thing. As for inevitable isolation its not so inevitable, if the world ended within a few centuries it might be so for the next 200 years would be a scary time but after that chances are you would either see a time where we met other civilizations or you could build yourself a spaceship and stick yourself in some form of cryostasis or something and go find some. Or just build yourself a race of clones or AI robots. if society pisses you off that might even be appealing on some level. As for the entropy of the universe? What is a few billion years worth of entertainment worth anyway?

 

[IamLEAM1983]

Fight crime.

Honestly, what else could you do?

Start investing.

Seriously, if I'm going to be around forever I can't exactly be getting by on my current, meager salary.

Well, okay, sure, that too, but I mean really, people.

I'd fight crime - then keep the criminals' money.

In short order, I'd make Bruce Wayne look like the kid out on the curb with the rickety little lemonade stand. Then MORE crime-fighting, but with high-tech zero-disclosure gadgets!