Current Events > Would you pay $500,000 for a chance at immortality?

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You are given an injection which has a chance of granting you eternal youth. There is also a chance it is partially effective, does nothing, or kills you.

70% chance you are biologically 25 and will never age.
20% chance it stops you from aging for 50 years and then you age normally after that
7% chance it does nothing
3% chance it kills you

Price is $500k. Or you can pay $1000 a month for life. This is a flat price and does not adjust with inflation.

Im not paying for something that has a 3% chance of killing me.

Nah I believe in God so I know my soul is immortal already. I'll go to heaven instead of staying here.

If I had immortality, could I get my head cut off and still be alive?

R1masher posted...

If I had immortality, could I get my head cut off and still be alive?

Have you ever seen Death Becomes Her?

Yes.

id eventually go (much more) insane being immortal
eventually Earth will be gone

some other species other than human might rule the earth (assuming humans currently "rule" it) and Id be a chained up circus freak
I wouldnt appreciate the good things or learn from the bad things as much
$500,000 can buy like...two small houses these days
no thanks

You can die, just not from age / illness. If your head is cut off, you die. If a 400 pound anvil falls on you from a sky scraper, you die.

Though if general medical technology gets good enough that you could survive a decapitation, then you have as good of odds as surviving that as anybody.

No quickening happens when you are killed.

https://youtu.be/_Jtpf8N5IDE?t=5

And if you can't afford even the 1k a month price is there another option?

Only death awaits those who cant afford it.

can i get the money instead

Norman_Smiley posted...

Only death awaits those who cant afford it.

Death awaits us all. Agelessness means an unnatural death like homicide or an accident.

Since you can die id pay for it if I could afford it. I mean id probably have enjoyed all I could after a couple hundred healthy years and then I would have the option of going out with a hold my beer watch this moment.

Nah. Immortality would probably feel more like a curse at some some point.

The_Popo posted...

Nah. Immortality would probably feel more like a curse at some some point.

You could always do yourself in. There would probably be some sort of physician assisted version as well at some point.

I'd rather take it to Las Vegas and have a week or two of immorality.

Norman_Smiley posted...

You could always do yourself in. There would probably be some sort of physician assisted version as well at some point.

Does that have a pricetag as well?

Also why would you not mention this in the title, it changes the whole topic

Nah. I don't even want to keep going as is, much less to pay half a million trying to extend it.

itachi15243 posted...

Does that have a pricetag as well?

Also why would you not mention this in the title, it changes the whole topic

Im assuming if youve got a bunch of immortal people running around they'll get powerful enough to get laws they want passed. Not everything needs to be spelled out.

And I'm assuming yeah, that would come at a price. But who cares? Work for 100 years and party for 5000.

I'd only take it if I were already old so that 3% chance wouldmt matter.

Norman_Smiley posted...

Or you can pay $1000 a month for life

If my 500k immortality serum kills me after I agree to a monthly payment plan, does my account go to collections or what?

I do not want to live forever. Fuck that.

Plenty of people already do, they're just usually not told that the deal is a scam.

Nobody can fucking read in this topic lol.

Yeah, I'd take it. Knowing my luck, I'll drop dead immediately, but I think it's still worth the 90% gamble for either eternal youth or an additional 50 years of prime life.

Do I know which one I get when it's chosen (barring the obvious death result)?

DrizztLink posted...

If my 500k immortality serum kills me after I agree to a monthly payment plan, does my account go to collections or what?

Your estate will be responsible for the first $1000 payment but nothing else.

LeCh0nk posted...

Nobody can fucking read in this topic lol.

Yeah, I'd take it. Knowing my luck, I'll drop dead immediately, but I think it's still worth the 90% gamble for either eternal youth or an additional 50 years of prime life.

Do I know which one I get when it's chosen (barring the obvious death result)?

If you revert to 25 youll know within a couple of days.
you wont know if you stopped aging or nothing happened for a couple of years.
death is really quick, same day as injection.

I do not want to be fucking immortal

Sure, I would love to live long enough to see if humanity gonna make it another 200 years. After Im the last human on earth than Ill end it.

I'd pay $500,000 to not be immortal. I'd pay $1000 for life if they destroyed this technology and made sure no one can ever make it again.

Yes, I wanted it like almost 20 years ago.

No thanks Im good

To be honest I would rather be 21 forever than 25. I remember turning 24 and my mom telling me how I looked older and she said my sister said the same thing. I later looked in the mirror and noticed lines on my face like Itachi and less hair on my head than before. If I was 21 forever, I imagine I would still have the youthful looks that I liked.

Nah I wouldn't want immortality without invincibility.

Viewing it as 500k to stay youthful seems worth it.

I don't have nearly enough money, and even if I did, I don't want to live through losing all my loved ones.

Not in my current body. If I was born differently maybe