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So the immortal thing has a few rules. Things can still happen to you (think about getting trapped alone somewhere, for example, or being forced into a coffin). No one else is immortal, so the people you know will die way early all the time. You will still age. You still have to eat. You can still get sick. But otherwise it's a long, long, long, long life for you. And you may never leave Earth perhaps, until the planet is destroyed by the waning sun. Then you're free.

Idea is that I don't think most people want to be immortal truly. There are downsides.

Take da deal? You trying to live forever bro?!

Who wants to live forever?

you still age? so at 200 you would look like the crypt keeper? hell nah

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Cocytus posted...

So the immortal thing has a few rules. Things can still happen to you (think about getting trapped alone somewhere, for example, or being forced into a coffin). No one else is immortal, so the people you know will die way early all the time. You will still age. You still have to eat. You can still get sick. But otherwise it's a long, long, long, long life for you. And you may never leave Earth perhaps, until the planet is destroyed by the waning sun. Then you're free.

Idea is that I don't think most people want to be immortal truly. There are downsides.

Take da deal? You trying to live forever bro?!

I'd take immortality if I got to choose when to end it. I know what it feels lie to have nobody. It sucked but with immortality I'd make it a mission to go out and meet people. I know they'd be temporary. But as a introvert they are just a means of keeping my sanity in check.

Cocytus posted...

And you may never leave Earth perhaps, until the planet is destroyed by the waning sun.

And not a second earlier? Even if you survive that's still asphyxiation for quite some time (no ship could come get you), one of the most painful ways to die that you would now have to live through.

That seems like a needlessly cruel rule.

It'd end up like that movie (The Man from Earth [Spoilers]) where people want to kill you, just because you're long-lived.

andel posted...

you still age? so at 200 you would look like the crypt keeper? hell nah

Yeah, I was on board until that. Also seems to imply that with it, would come the negatives of age and it'd get to a point where shit just doesn't work anymore so you look like a burlap sack thrown out in the sun who just can't move or do anything. That'd fucking suck.

What a stupid topic. The suffering you will experience is not worth any amount of money.

Do better, TC.

ellis123 posted...

And not a second earlier? Even if you survive that's still asphyxiation for quite some time (no ship could come get you), one of the most painful ways to die that you would now have to live through.

That seems like a needlessly cruel rule.

That's why it's immortal and everything with it.

No, 1 mil isn't enough

Eternal Youth with nothing else >>>>>>>>>>>> your crappy greek immortality with money to mess with.

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Good question. You still age, but it's fractions to what everyone else is. 500 years for example, barely any aging. 10 generations might go by before you're even close to like 25

BurmesePenguin posted...

Who wants to live forever?

Me, un-ironically. I take this deal any day.

"You're immortal but you still will age you'll still die you aren't immortal but you also get a million dollars"
Difficult choice.

Your version of immortality sounds shit. The aging thing was a major problem, but then in trying to fix it you have forced us to remain children for a ridiculous amount of time.

I just dont think youve thought this through at all.

Glob posted...

Your version of immortality sounds shit. The aging thing was a major problem, but then in trying to fix it you have forced us to remain children for a ridiculous amount of time.

I just dont think youve thought this through at all.

Omg link wtf do you think immorality means. It's not the same as being Superman or play life on God mode.

I think you just can't decide is all.

No thanks Im good

The vote keeps doubling and 50/50 every time.

I should add one thing. Just because you can still get sicknand shit doesn't mean you're going to get slammed with cancer or anything.

If you are immortal you shouldnt age at all. At some point your body still becomes to old to work. The only reason we die at a certain age is because our bodies wear down and the dna cant repair itself. Immortality thats still effected by time is dumb. Ageing at a slowed rate only makes sense if you still have a lifespan, even if 1000 becomes the new 100.

I pay 1 mil to not be immortal but everyone else is.

If I can still die to certain things doesn't that kinda negate the downsides of being immortal?

ChrisTaka posted...

If I can still die to certain things doesn't that kinda negate the downsides of being immortal?

Never said you could die, only that you will still have to deal with life.

Cocytus posted...

Good question. You still age, but it's fractions to what everyone else is. 500 years for example, barely any aging. 10 generations might go by before you're even close to like 25

That still leaves millions of years of being an atrophic old bag of bones in a dried skin husk.

The remaining lifetime until sun swallows the earth is 7.59 billion years. That's billion with a b. 10 generations is 300 years. That's 300 with only those digits and no more digits, whereas 7.59 billion has all of these digits: 7590000000. That's a hell of a long time of being way older than a person was made to last.

On second thought, no.

Cocytus posted...

Never said you could die, only that you will still have to deal with life.

You said you still have to eat. But that can't be true if you won't die of starvation.

DarkChozoGhost posted...

You said you still have to eat. But that can't be true if you won't die of starvation.

You will be extra hungry if you don't eat is all. You won't die from it.

deoxxys posted...

If you are immortal you shouldnt age at all. At some point your body still becomes to old to work. The only reason we die at a certain age is because our bodies wear down and the dna cant repair itself. Immortality thats still effected by time is dumb. Ageing at a slowed rate only makes sense if you still have a lifespan, even if 1000 becomes the new 100.

Yeah, I mean I didn't calculate the ratio, but think about a vampire's lifetime I suppose.

Cocytus posted...

Idea is that I don't think most people want to be immortal truly. There are downsides.

I think most people know this There have always been downsides They can always be offset by certain things like family also being immortal, but yeah A lot people usually dont want to live forever, especially alone, and while still aging (though the forever child thing sucks, too), with no easy way out when theyre ready

LinkPizza posted...

I think most people know this There have always been downsides They can always be offset by certain things like family also being immortal, but yeah A lot people usually dont want to live forever, especially alone, and while still aging, with no easy way out when theyre ready

But a million dollars and thousands upon thousands of years. You'll know more than the world forgets routinely.

Cocytus posted...

Yeah, I mean I didn't calculate the ratio, but think about a vampire's lifetime I suppose.

Vampires don't have lifetime. They don't age. That's their thing.

Cocytus posted...

But a million dollars and thousands upon thousands of years. You'll know more than the world forgets routinely.

A million will be barely anything, though Especially over such a long time And you wont be able to remember everything And probably wont want to since that means remembering everyone you lost Even if you remember stuff, how will that help you in any way?

Can we, eventually, get cybernetics? Like cameras for eyes and giant spiked treads and stuff?

the_final_bahamut posted...

Vampires don't have lifetime. They don't age. That's their thing.

Equivalent to. I said you'd die around time for the sun to explode before anything, only because you have no more planet. Could make it worse and say your still sitting there immortal in space, but, just like a vamp, there are a couple ways out, and you even have less ways.

VorpalAxeMan posted...

Can we, eventually, get cybernetics? Like cameras for eyes and giant spiked treads and stuff?

Absolutely, product availability not guaranteed.

Sign me up, then. Rocket launcher fists goooooooo!

Cocytus posted...

But a million dollars and thousands upon thousands of years. You'll know more than the world forgets routinely.

Got to play it smart yo. Make it work for you, Invest. You'll be in a better position to.

Immortal AND rich! Yeah!

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Shotgunnova posted...

Immortal AND rich! Yeah!

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lol

Cocytus posted...

Omg link wtf do you think immorality means. It's not the same as being Superman or play life on God mode.

I think you just can't decide is all.

Immortality certainly doesnt fit as narrow of a definition as youre presenting.

I absolutely can decide. Your deal sucks.

Youd have to be pretty dumb to be think otherwise, given how many people have been pointing out the flaws.

deoxxys posted...

Ageing at a slowed rate only makes sense if you still have a lifespan, even if 1000 becomes the new 100.

Yes, unordinary long life span, thousands of years.

OH PS everyone, just because I said you would age doesn't mean you'll get decerped or anything. You'll still be like 18 in thousands of years for example.

Glob posted...

Immortality certainly doesnt fit as narrow of a definition as youre presenting.

I absolutely can decide. Your deal sucks.

Youd have to be pretty dumb to be think otherwise, given how many people have been pointing out the flaws.

It does. You're still living, you won't be killed. You can still suffer, I don't know how this is a surprise. You're not an annoited superhero.

Cocytus posted...

It does. You're still living, you won't be killed. You can still suffer, I don't know how this is a surprise. You're not an annoited superhero.

I really hope that youre a troll, rather than being as dense as youre coming across on here.

Immortality is not real. Its a fictional concept which takes many forms (often with the idea that its a curse, rather than a blessing).

The one youre offering sounds like the worst version Ive ever heard of, and youve had to change your definition multiple times when challenged. Other people are not the problem here. Its you.

Cocytus posted...

Yes, unordinary long life span, thousands of years.

OH PS everyone, just because I said you would age doesn't mean you'll get decerped or anything. You'll still be like 18 in thousands of years for example.

This is obviously a great deal, then. Anyone who wouldnt take it isnt thinking clearly or is lying to themselves.

deoxxys posted...

If you are immortal you shouldnt age at all. At some point your body still becomes to old to work. The only reason we die at a certain age is because our bodies wear down and the dna cant repair itself. Immortality thats still effected by time is dumb. Ageing at a slowed rate only makes sense if you still have a lifespan, even if 1000 becomes the new 100.

Tell that to the greek version where you can't die, but still age, and eventually just become immobile and begging for death that will never come due to your own body atrophying to such an extent. And its not like you are being tortured. You have a hot goddess for an eternal lover, and she still loves you forever. You just eventually age to such an extent that you can no longer move. And no, she doesn't let you have the mercy of death, that was part of the deal.

Which is why a better poll would be "You get a million dollars. But you are now 10 years old for the rest of your life (eternal youth with a twist), and you cannot die of old age or things that result from the long term accumulation of time (so lead poisoning, any cancer you wouldn't have gotten before 10, any disease that a half healthy human will not catch unless their immune system is shot from decaying with age, etc), only from other things.

Would you take this version? You are stuck as a kid and can die from anything a kid would reasonably die from, including lack of food or water, or from short term diseases, or getting shot, etc. But you get a million bucks and maybe 10 years of leeway before people start really figuring out "oh, that guy is still a kid. Why is that?".

For the sake of the argument, lets say that reality and people's memories of you is warped so that you are back to being a ten year old as far as anyone is concerned at the start, so you do not need to worry about the fact that you are suddently ten again, and that fact messing with everyone who knows you no longer recognizing you. You may, however, be back in school again.

Thank you, exactly.

Cocytus posted...

OH PS everyone, just because I said you would age doesn't mean you'll get decerped or anything. You'll still be like 18 in thousands of years for example.

This is such a poorly thought-out topic. Put details like this in the OP.

That said it's still a no. Any type of immortality where I could potentially get stuck somewhere, unable to get out or die, is a major no.