If science came up with a pill that would stop the aging process and stave off death, would you take it?
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Or would you trade in earthly immortality for the biblical promise of heavenly immortality? Oh, and the pill would only be available to about 10,000 people so you don’t have to worry about living in a crowded world with no death at all.
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Or would you trade in earthly immortality for the biblical promise of heavenly immortality? Oh, and the pill would only be available to about 10,000 people so you don’t have to worry about living in a crowded world with no death at all.
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May 7th, 2011 at 10:06 am
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No, I’d sell the pill for $2 billion.
May 9th, 2011 at 7:35 am
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Okay, assuming there aren’t any crazy side effects (aside from the whole ‘not aging’ thing) – I think I’d probably take it. Just to see how much mileage I can really get out of it, you know?
May 10th, 2011 at 10:23 pm
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of course i would take it. when i get tired of living, i’d just blow my own brains out.
May 12th, 2011 at 7:00 pm
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I would take Biblical immortality. I’ll come back as Jude Law or a Dragon and get tons of chicks in heaven.
May 13th, 2011 at 11:39 am
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I would not take the pill I know God is waiting for me when it is time for me to go/die. To live here for eternity sounds beyond awful. Could the 10,000 people procreate?
May 15th, 2011 at 12:36 am
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it would be hard to say. I wouldnt mind living longer but I would also like to be an old man yelling at kids to get off my lawn one day, decisions, decisions. I could always just dress up as an old man.
May 15th, 2011 at 12:06 pm
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Hell yes.
Assuming that the pill offers only immortality, and not invincibility. I would like the ability to choose the time of my eventual demise. Living for thousands of years may possess appeal; living for *eternity* would be the worst fate imaginable.
May 16th, 2011 at 7:31 am
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Yes, I would take it and the earth is way to populated anyway so then I could live on earth forever with less people. Great.
May 17th, 2011 at 9:10 am
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No, being immortal sucks.
All your family, and friends would die… the world would change around you and you wouldn’t know how to cope.
And evolution would change all the people around you, basically making yourself look like a strange creature to them.
Plus… what would happen if I got stuck somewhere? Like an earthquake and I was stuck in a building and I was starving… but I was unable to die?
I just want to die like a normal person! o-o
May 20th, 2011 at 1:10 am
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Humans live way too long already!
May 23rd, 2011 at 8:29 am
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Hell no! Immortality would suck, regardless of the provider.
May 23rd, 2011 at 2:26 pm
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As long as it doesn’t cause anal leakage because I couldn’t live with that… It would be like living in Hell.
May 24th, 2011 at 4:43 pm
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Assuming that you would have to take the pill regularly (not just a single dose) I would take it for awhile until I felt I had accomplished what I wanted in life, then I would stop taking it so I could experience aging and death. The choice to die might not necessarily be based on the promise of an afterlife. It would be sad to live indefinitely if your loved ones were dieing around you and the world was changing into something you didn’t recognize.
“Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.” -The Age of Spiritual Machines, by Ray Kurzweil
May 24th, 2011 at 9:08 pm
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Nah, I’d eventually get bored, and I don’t want to have to commit suicide. Not that I’m emo or anything, I just don’t want to live forever. You’d have to watch all your friends and loved ones die off, and you’d eventually have no one. If there is a heaven (and I do believe there is), I’d much rather live there forever, after doing my time on earth. Much less stressful(:
May 26th, 2011 at 11:23 pm
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Depends if it’s like eternal youth or whatever, I wouldn’t want to be 157 or something and looking for my dentures.
May 30th, 2011 at 3:20 am
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Of course. Our lives are far too short for my taste. Of course I don’t want to live “forever” but I’d like to live until an unknown time. It would be nice to never have to get old and feeble and know that the end is near. But eventually I’d get hit by a bus or something without having to knowingly watch my time tick away.