The 500 year old question

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If you could live for 500 years(in good health without aging/as you are currently) would you want to?
This once in a lifetime deal would only apply to you and not the rest of the humans on earth.

I put the same question to my 22 colleagues at work and 50% said No and the other 50% said Yes for a variety of different reasons.



Any takers? Thoughts?
 
No I don't think so. While it would be interesting to see what happens over the 500 years I don't particularly think I'd want to be in a cycle of watching people I'd come to care about slowly die off in a weird cycle. Also unless it comes with an unlimited money hack I don't want to work for 470 odd years :D
 
I used to think it would be interesting to see what happens and how things turn out. Now I just think it would be depressing to witness.
Imagine watching your society and humanity in general continuously screw itself over and over every 2-3 generations as the lessons of the recent past are lost from living memory.
 
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tom_e said:
No I don't think so. While it would be interesting to see what happens over the 500 years I don't particularly think I'd want to be in a cycle of watching people I'd come to care about slowly die off in a weird cycle. Also unless it comes with an unlimited money hack I don't want to work for 470 odd years :D
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I hear you about seeing you'd loved ones pass away...but you could be the nuturer of nuturers, guiding them with your experience in life to inrich there's lives.
Could be that genetics would aloww people to live for a 1000 years and you'd get a raw deal :D
Regarding work, imagine the different things you could do as a job. Maybe there would be no need to work in the future. Think of the pension! :D
 
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I think of all the oportunities to learn taste and see different things on ouf planet....
How tech/science would progress.
Traveling into space etc
 
Are you incapable of dying for 500 years?

What happens if there's a cataclysmic event/nuclear war? Would you just be wondering around a barren earth by yourself?
 
Megahurtz400 said:
Are you incapable of dying for 500 years?

What happens if there's a cataclysmic event/nuclear war? Would you just be wondering around a barren earth by yourself?
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Good point Megahurtz. No you would die. You would also die by way of suicide etc. So not indestructible. But you would be good to go with deseases, cancers and the likes, but dud if a 2 ton boulder squashed you flat
 
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Edit: already answered that you can commit suicide if you want.

Yes, i absolutely would take the 500 years then. Why wouldn't you (unless you are really old already and would be stuck that way for 500 years, that would be rubbish).

It sounds great actually, you get to try out multiple different life paths, partners, friends etc. Loads of time to try different artistic pursuits etc etc.

and if it proves too long you can just jump off a cliff.

i think it is probably only worth it if you are between 18-50 (if you are being strict about staying the same age you are currently)
 
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Good point Megahurtz. No you would die. You would also die by way of suicide etc. So not indestructible. But you would be good to go with deseases, cancers and the likes, but dud if a 2 ton boulder squashed you flat
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In that case i'd probably do it, can always off myself if I really regret it, and by then no one who will be torn up by me doing that will be left to get upset by it.
 
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