Take this Pill and Live forever

WIZE

I will give you this Pill

if you take it you need to understand the following

You will never Die or Grow old from your age today

You can get Sick and injured but thats it

You will never be able to reverse the Decision

Will you take the Pill

KTRIC

Is it a blue pill or red pill ?

pablomakaveli

If i found out that i was going to live forever, i'd kill myself now.

The Floyd p

You Pillock.

amacca

wtf is it with boards posts and pills these days?

I have a pill too...it makes minor annoyances go away

TouchingVirus

Nope, wouldn't take it. I'm at ease with my fate to die at some point, hopefully I'll have done all the things I want to at that stage like have kids, explored the world etc.

MungBean

No

nom nom nom.........Immortality !!!

seamus

I'm nearly 30. This would possibly be the perfect time for me to take such a pill.

Yes I would. Though I would want to consult my wife and family. I wouldn't want to be left as the only one who took it and have to watch them all grow old while I don't.

drunkmonkey

No

As long as you don't loose the power to get Inebriated and get a woody Immortality is fine with me.

chin_grin

A man offers you a pill.

-Decline.
-Accept.


You have chosen decline. You live your life on the planet the way evolution has made you. Grow old, die and therefore appreciate the time you have here instead of being given free reign over all time to become indifferent to everything around you.

ismiseuisce

No way

mconigol

Yes...

I don't want to loose my smouldering good looks. Recently just acquired my first grey hairs so now is perfect timing.

PM my op...!

flutterflye

No

Would obviously be awful to see everyone I know, especially my children die.
But immortality- Fcuk yeah!

foxyboxer

I never deal in absolutes...oh sweet death, then again if they're still showing Friends on E4 in 4301 AD then I'd be thinking "Could this immortality beeeeee anymore annoying"

FatherLen

No

yes I would take it are you nuts?
live for fookin ages then when your done jump off a high building
I don't see why this is even a question.

emeraldstar

Why would anyone want to live forever? How depressing.

WIZE

KTRIC wrote: »

Is it a blue pill or red pill ?

White

Ficheall

Is that you, God?

emeraldstar

FatherLen wrote: »

yes I would take it are you nuts?
live for fookin ages then when your done jump off a high building
I don't see why this is even a question.

I don't think it's that easy. It's not until you choose to be done, it's FOREVER.

amacca

seamus wrote: »

I'm nearly 30. This would possibly be the perfect time for me to take such a pill.

Yes I would. Though I would want to consult my wife and family. I wouldn't want to be left as the only one who took it and have to watch them all grow old while I don't.

not to mention you can still get sick/injured with his pill


imagine living in pain and knowing you would never be able to avail of the sweet sweet release of death

the longer you would live the higher the probability of getting seriously injured/ill etc would become...no one is that care

fcuk that pill


now if the OP asked me if I wanted to be a vampire (the glamorous powerful lust for life (s) blood type with class and style etc....i reckon I could put in a couple of hundred years at that before I would drop myself out of a plane into the blazing sunlight

thirtythirty

5 reasons immortality would be worse than death

hooradiation

No

emeraldstar wrote: »

Why would anyone want to live forever? How depressing.

An near limitless time to actually explore the world and have new experiences? Yes, how awfully depressing.

TPD

Probably would, yeah. I'm sure you'd go mad soon enough once the universe ends, so infinity wouldn't seem so boring. Also, it'd be nice to see just how advanced humans get.

phasers

No, because someone might wrap cheese around my brain and make me retarded

thecornflake

What happens when the world ends ? I'd be all alone, that would suck something fierce.

Fighting Irish

No

Definitely! Life is great and we only have one life so why the hell not?

Creamy Goodness

yes, because i want to live in a time when i can teleport food to my apartment and not have it wreck the cheese.

Fighting Irish

No

emeraldstar wrote: »

Why would anyone want to live forever? How depressing.

:eek:

You need to do something with your life that makes you happy

Fighting Irish

No

FatherLen wrote: »

yes I would take it are you nuts?
live for fookin ages then when your done jump off a high building
I don't see why this is even a question.

WIZE wrote: »

I will give you this Pill

if you take it you need to understand the following

You will never Die or Grow old from your age today

You can get Sick and injured but thats it

You will never be able to reverse the Decision

Will you take the Pill

.

MungBean

No

If your body gets knackered jump into a volcano. Body will melt and you can float off about the universe.

My name is URL

Good documentary on this subject - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3329065877451441972

Scientists are actually working on making this a reality

chopperbyrne

No

Absolutely

FloatingVoter

No

...course I would. Even if I hated it, I'd be around when the antidote is invented.

Blazer

No

spottyelephant wrote: »

5 reasons immortality would be worse than death

fúck...I wanna change my answer to no..

emeraldstar

Fighting Irish wrote: »

:eek:

You need to do something with your life that makes you happy

Well, first of all, my entire family and (current) friends would be dead. Second of all, and most importantly, as per the OP's post you can still get sick or injured. What if you were involved in an accident and rendered permanently paralysed, living in a wheelchair, on a ventilator and needing to be fed through a tube? Then that would be your eternity. Of course that might never happen, but if you're here forever then, let's face it, there's plenty time for such accidents. God, no way would I take that pill. No thanks.

Wibbs

No

emeraldstar wrote: »

Why would anyone want to live forever? How depressing.

I don't see how. Forever is finite so you would eventually stop. Unless you survive the universe going dead. That would be crap. But scientifically based immortality? Nope that would be cool.

spottyelephant wrote: »

5 reasons immortality would be worse than death

The majority of those reasons are very bogus. If you live long enough to not die you'll evolve along with everyone else. Your mind would be augmented by external means etc. I'd be very shocked if a large amount of humans won't be functionally immortal in a 1000 years. Likely much sooner.

Wibbs

No

emeraldstar wrote: »

Well, first of all, my entire family and (current) friends would be dead.

So? you'd get new ones. All of us lose family and friends to death at some stage anyway. Impossibly rare is the person who hasn't attended a funeral. Your family and friends would be replaced by new ones as happens already. Funny enough studies on the longest lived people show they tend to be less affected by the deaths of those around them or for much shorter periods of time. Makes sense.

Second of all, and most importantly, as per the OP's post you can still get sick or injured. What if you were involved in an accident and rendered permanently paralysed, living in a wheelchair, on a ventilator and needing to be fed through a tube? Then that would be your eternity.

Nope again. Injuries that would screw you up now will be easily curable in time. If with this pill you can get sick, by definition you can get healthy again.

Of course that might never happen, but if you're here forever then, let's face it, there's plenty time for such accidents.

Oh certainly sooner or later you would be involved in an accident, but it wouldn't be the end of the world in most cases.

hooradiation

No

Fighting Irish wrote: »

FatherLen wrote:

yes I would take it are you nuts?
live for fookin ages then when your done jump off a high building
I don't see why this is even a question.

WIZE wrote:

I will give you this Pill

if you take it you need to understand the following

You will never Die or Grow old from your age today

You can get Sick and injured but thats it

You will never be able to reverse the Decision

Will you take the Pill

The way he's worded it makes it a lot like the immortality that Tolkien's elves had - they would live forever unless sufficiently fucked up.
Probably by an Orc.

amacca

Wibbs wrote: »

I'd be very shocked if a large amount of humans won't be functionally immortal in a 1000 years. Likely much sooner.

Isn't that a nightmarish vista?

would there be any room for new humans? wouldnt the ones that lived longest build up the most resources/power etc the longer they live maybe reducing our numbers

or

instead how would you manage a situation where people dont fcuk off and die but instead hang around building up in their billions?

The Mulk

So nobody here seen 'Death Becomes Her'. You could fall and break.


On the plus side you get to go to parties with Elvis and Jim Morisson

cocoshovel

No

What happens if I fall into giant cattle grinder? Do I still live a horrible conscious existence in millions of chopped up pieces?

Wibbs

No

amacca wrote: »

Isn't that a nightmarish vista?

would there be any room for new humans? wouldnt the ones that lived longest build up the most resources/power etc the longer they live maybe reducing our numbers

or

instead how would you manage a situation where people dont fcuk off and die but instead hang around building up in their billions?

Not quite, you'd still have people dying from massive traumatic accidents for a start. Very likely artificial population control would take over. Children would no longer be an imperative nor a right. They're a biological imperative largely because of individual mortality, remove that and the organism would adapt in a different direction. As for room for new humans? Well the earth is pretty big and could take more if done in a sustainable way. The minds that would come up with this level of technology would likely do this anyway. Secondly we wouldnt have to stay on earth. We could colonise Mars which would take up a lot of the slack for thousands of years. If we "upload" to evolved artificial receptacles for our consciousness then extrrem environments would not be an issue anymore. Then the stars themselves take up the slack. We could be a consciousness, a new human spreading through the galaxy all interconnected for millions of years. Maybe longer.

sock puppet

Wibbs wrote: »

I don't see how. Forever is finite so you would eventually stop. Unless you survive the universe going dead.

There's presumably going to be quite a bit of time between the earth becoming uninhabitable and the end of the universe.

amacca

Wibbs wrote: »

Not quite, you'd still have people dying from massive traumatic accidents for a start. Very likely artificial population control would take over. Children would no longer be an imperative nor a right. They're a biological imperative largely because of individual mortality, remove that and the organism would adapt in a different direction. As for room for new humans? Well the earth is pretty big and could take more if done in a sustainable way. The minds that would come up with this level of technology would likely do this anyway. Secondly we wouldnt have to stay on earth. We could colonise Mars which would take up a lot of the slack for thousands of years. If we "upload" to evolved artificial receptacles for our consciousness then extrrem environments would not be an issue anymore. Then the stars themselves take up the slack. We could be a consciousness, a new human spreading through the galaxy all interconnected for millions of years. Maybe longer.

Iain M Banks...is that you?:D


you left out the best bits...like drug bowls and hedonistic sex on tap!

Fighting Irish

No

emeraldstar wrote: »

Well, first of all, my entire family and (current) friends would be dead. Second of all, and most importantly, as per the OP's post you can still get sick or injured. What if you were involved in an accident and rendered permanently paralysed, living in a wheelchair, on a ventilator and needing to be fed through a tube? Then that would be your eternity. Of course that might never happen, but if you're here forever then, let's face it, there's plenty time for such accidents. God, no way would I take that pill. No thanks.

Alright when you put it like that
I think i'd still take the chance, especially as in 100 years there could be a cure for anything

sink

I certainly would likely to live a few millennia but not forever. Voted no.

Wibbs

No

sock puppet wrote: »

There's presumably going to be quite a bit of time between the earth becoming uninhabitable and the end of the universe.

True but it leaves you a lot of time to explore. To watch new stars being born and supporting planets and life. Of course if we're the only life...

amacca wrote: »

Iain M Banks...is that you?:D

Just googled him. Sorry the only sci fi I've read was contained between the pages of 2000AD in my youth.

Wibbs

No

I love that "where do i go from here" voted yes.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Wouldnt take it, wouldnt want to see my wife and daughter die before me and be left behind and then if i met someone else to have them die before me too and then if i met someone else to have them die before me too then if i met someone else to have them die before me too then if i met someone else to have them die before me too then if i met someone else to have them die before me too then if i met someone else to have them die before me too then if i met someone else to have them die before me too then if i met someone else to have them die before me too then if i met someone else to have them die before me too then if i met someone else to have them die before me too then if i met someone else to have them die before me too then if i met someone else to have them die before me too then if i met someone else to have them die before me too then if i met someone else to have them die before me too then if i met someone else to have them die before me too then if i met someone else to have them die before me too then if i met someone else to have them die before me too then if i met someone else to have them die before me too then if i met someone else to have them die before me too then if i met someone else to have them die before me too then if i met someone else to have them die before me too then if i met someone else to have them die before me too then if i met someone else to have them die before me too then if i met someone else to have them die before me too then if i met someone else to have them die before me too then if i met someone else to have them die before me too then if i met someone else to have them die before me too then if i met someone else to have them die before me too. So no i wouldnt take the pill....but it'd be tempting.

joshrogan

Nah I'm only 17 don't want to live off fake I.D's for the rest of my life.

Savage Tyrant

No

Wibbs wrote: »

Not quite, you'd still have people dying from massive traumatic accidents for a start. Very likely artificial population control would take over. Children would no longer be an imperative nor a right. They're a biological imperative largely because of individual mortality, remove that and the organism would adapt in a different direction. As for room for new humans? Well the earth is pretty big and could take more if done in a sustainable way. The minds that would come up with this level of technology would likely do this anyway. Secondly we wouldnt have to stay on earth. We could colonise Mars which would take up a lot of the slack for thousands of years. If we "upload" to evolved artificial receptacles for our consciousness then extrrem environments would not be an issue anymore. Then the stars themselves take up the slack. We could be a consciousness, a new human spreading through the galaxy all interconnected for millions of years. Maybe longer.

I think you're a genius!!
I'm sticking with you. LET'S DO THIS!
Where's that pill?