Poll: Would you accept immortality?

[Elsarild]

Not in a million years.

I'd accept my life to be extended as long as I also got pretty much unlimited money or atleast a good income from doing nothing.

And you need to put down some ground rules:

Do I keep living as I am now, never aging from this point on?

Do I start to be "immortal" when I should have died?

Can I be killed by weapon, gun, knife, hunger, exposue, etc? or am I totally indestructible as well?

But, my main reason for saying no, is the same reason that cracked article listed, I read it a few months ago, but also, IF I'm stuck my age now, I'd also be doomed to work to get some cash, unless I didn't die from hunger, but If I still felt hunger eating would be necessary, so I'd need money, meaning I'd either Study, or work, but then I should either aim high and get a really well paying job so I didn't have to work as much, Or I've just doomed myself to an eternity of working 9-5 everyday for the rest of time.

I don't see that as a very promosing thing.

 

[Elsarild]

I wd take it, as for evolving I suppose you cd always evolve in your own way, think of the things you could accomplish in an eternity, I'd like to see how the world finally ends

Evolution dosen't work that way.
sorry.

 

[idarkphoenixi]

Hell I'll take it...
But that whole thing about being an evolutionary freak i don't buy. I've already made my theories about that which is humanity will never evolve because we have no need to. Machines have made life so convenient and easy that the old rule of only the fittest survive and pass on the best possible genes no longer exists. If anything, humanity will de-volve and you will be the ultimate species on the planet, pretty cool eh?

 

[NicoDK]

I would accept it, because even though i might live forever and one day would be floating around in space as the world ends, i'd be too insane to really give 2 shits.

 

[pope_of_larry]

question if you where taken apart atom by atom would you live die and if you lived would you reform.

 

[g3ko]

i would also accept it.
lemme mention a character (I know it's a comic book character but hey, it's the first thing i thought of when i read the title of this post)
Vandal Savage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandal_Savage
also, to answer one of the points against it
"The brain isn't built for this", neither is the body, but the brain is part of the body, and the body doesn't age, so neither does the brain, except for knowledge, and also, it wouldn't be forced to remember anything, does anyone remember their entire life up to now? the brain automatically chooses to remember more important things and forget other things (individually, according to what's more important to each individual).
also, it very much depends on what type of immortality... What i mean is, yes, no physical aging, does that also mean rapid healing, almost instanteneous, or would a cut off limb (after eating said green gummy bear of immortality) grow back anywhere from a couple of seconds to, say, infinity? or would that remain a scar and missing.that would solve most time related mind problems, since the brain would also heal itself from any physical problem, and as such.
another food for thought:
if the one who ate the gummy bear was of age 8, would he/she still age to, let's say, prime age of, mid to late 20's? would it also allow self physical evolution, be it natural or artificial. the future is close to gene splicing(probably no one reading this would actually live to see it, but let's say that). would the immortality gained disallow any modification to your own genome, or will it be a modification in itself?

edit: replaced "quote" with "mention" at beginning of post

 

[drosalion]

I'd take it without a doubt in my mind if I was also able to end my life at a time of my choosing, but if it was true immortality lasting for eternity then nah i probably wouldnt.

Points 1, 2, 3, 4 in the OP honestly dont concern me, only point 5 would.

 

[folieadeux]

Probably not. Although the prospect of living long enough to perfect anything looks good, I know I would never be bothered to finish it. If I lost a limb or two, or contracted some horrible disease that caused unbearable agony, the prospect of suffering for an indefinite period without euthanasia is almost too terrible to imagine.

I can also imagine a Prometheus-like punishment because the fourth millennium thought police caught me thinking about pizza or alcohol with wistful nostalgia, such things having been branded in a similar fashion to cocaine in today's laws.

 

[Crazy]

Of course, I won't be divine or any of that nonsense. I can still kill myself if the need arises.

 

[Psychedelic Spartan]

Short answer: yes! long answer: Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss sorry, I couldn't resist. I'd do it

 

[legendp]

if you wanted to die you could find a black hole and fly into it, black holes destroy physical atoms so you may not die but you will be destroyed wich is the same outcome.
personally never growing old would be cool but never faceing death would be bad. then agian you would surely die when the universe ends, and if humanity ended you could try and find aliens to keep you occupied (Its a BIG universe after all)

 

[Soods]

Rather be insane and alone, than be nothing.

 

[Quietus Legion]

I have to admit that with those exact terms it would be a very hard decision, if I had the possibility to end my own life just in case then yeah I'd definitely go for it. All the other points in the article I consider moot after that.

 

[notebook_holder]

If anything. I believe most homeless people are immortal. Think about it, no one knows about them or half the time no one even cares. So wouldn't that be the perfect person to be immortal. At first they seemed liked it was a cool thing to do but in reality it just became too much for them so they just collapsed.

 

[Wintermoot]

yes I,m curious about the future and maybe they will find ways to fix problems like lacking evolution.

 

[Ranorak]

Oh hells yes!

"So, for the first century I'll go easy on everyone, lure them into a false sense of security. And then when they think I'm not so bad, BAMN I'll go full tyrant on them in the second century. After that, I'll disappear for a millennia, make them wonder if I ever existed to begin with. Just to come back and kill them all."

 

[Zepren]

Depends on if once immortal I can make others immortal too. Then I would.

 

[Mr.White]

Yes, that way I might get to play half life 3, and I can get wasted pretty much all the time (no liver failure waheeey) so I won't have to worry about remembering too much, and I could become a cage fighter and my son (me after I stop dying my hair grey) can be my successor.

Also I might be able to party with Charlie Sheen and keep up.

 

[BOOM headshot65]

Yes, I would take Immortality, but I would try to find a way to pass it on to My girlfriend. I wont live forever unless she is there with me.

 

[Korak the Mad]

I had already thought of those types of conditions that most people don't even think about, a long time ago concerning about this type of question.

I will never want to be immortal, for the reason that you will never forget how everything will eventually be destroyed by the ravages of time, yet you stay the same.

You would go insane after a few thousand years, and would regret your mistake of eating that cursed thing.