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Life and Death decision

This may seem silly, but trust me, I'm going somewhere with this!

If alliens came to earth and offered everyone who wants to accept, a life span of 200 years + plenty of money + a good life + healthy body and brain of a 30 year old + your friends and family could join you.

But the aliens want one thing. After 200 years of a great life, you die a peaceful and painless death. They ship your body back to their home planet where you are eaten.

This is not a deal-with-the devil with hidden consequences or anything like that. It is just what it says.

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SleepingOnABoat 7 Apr 12
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200 years? Sounds redundant.

Pook Level 5 June 9, 2018
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Fine by me, but I don't see it happening.

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Not sure the life span is the draw here, but if you're saying no 'tricks' then i'm all for a better life.
Heck, just being in less pain each day and a little more travelling cash would clinch it for me.
What'll I care what happens to me after I'm dead?

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I voted yes cause what the hell. When I'm dead, I no longer exist anyway. I don't fear death. Paraphrasing Mark Twain, I don't fear dying. I was dead for billions of years before I was born and didn't suffer any ill consequences because of it nor will I afterwards.
Secondly, I LOVE the insinuated parallels of this scenario with the present day beef cattle and other animals with humans controversy. Of course, unfortunately, they don't get to vote Yes or No.

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I can't imagine having to live that long. The horrors you'd witness

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It sounds good to me. I get eaten after I die? Go ahead. I just rocked it with my peeps for one helluva long party.

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Nothing I would object to in that.

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Seems liek a huge net gain over all.

So, woudl ti be the aliens themselves who woudl be eating me,or are we all pet food?

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Why would I care what happens to my body when I am dead?!? If buried, the worms eat it...worms, aliens, what's the dif?

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I hesitated. For some reason I'm voting none of the above.

@BeerAndWine Remember Soylent Green and Sigourney Weaver and Alien? Aso, would you want another two hundred years even looking good as well as healthy?
And even if I said no, if they could promise all that, they'd probably eat me anyway. So I'm conflicted.

@BeerAndWine No.

@BeerAndWine But..but...indecision is a hallmark of being human.

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Worm food, alien food, 6 of one, 1/2 dozen oth the other.

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Seems like a life of control they would not want all the cattle poisoned with twinkie goo.

@BeerAndWine Not to burst the bubble. This can only exist as an imagination. There are too many variable that would happen. Just to add to the fantasy. One would have to speculate the aliens would have enemies.

@BeerAndWine Have you ever heard of making a deal with a gin or genie. if you as for something it will be granted literally. For instance say you ask for a buck meaning a dollar bill in your mind. The gin/genie would give you a kick or a male ungulate. So speculating just on hypothetical terms say the energy that you expel in some sense has value to them and the can somehow harness it and keep it indifferently, and you did somehow keep a record of your life thoughts. You would be trapped in some device forever.

@BeerAndWine I see the morbid curiosity factor.

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There’s SOOOOOOO much life to explore on this vast planet (and beyond!!) that 200y may not be enough time to do so but I’d jump on the opportunity to explore in a heart beat! Besides Europa is my girl!! I just know she has life on her and I don’t want to die before knowing for sure!

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I voted yes by mistake. I meant to vote no. My reason has nothing to do with not wanting to have my dead body eaten because I want my dead body eaten, just not by aliens on some alien world. I want the Flora and fauna that I've eaten all my life to have their turn with me. A long life and tons of money is in no way a guarantee of a happy life. I grew up in a well to do family and let me tell you, there was no joy in my family. Stress and yelling over nothing was a daily occurrence.

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I'd do it.

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I actually voted Yes AND You Sick Bastard. LOL

@kenriley I don't think you can, actually. I clicked them both, and although the checkboxes both showed, it only counted You Sick Bastard. LOLOL

Me too. LOL

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One important question - do I continue to uglier and creepier and repulsive to young gals and forget more sh** and get more aches, or do I start getting younger year by year after 100?

I HATE that 'Sir' sh**.

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Sure why not..though I'd prefer the brain of a 60 year old..

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worms, aliens, alien worms ... who cares, nibble away 🙂

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The life span isn't much of an incentive by itself but it comes with "a good life', don't really care what happens to my body anyway.

Kimba Level 7 Apr 12, 2018
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200 more years of video games. Easy decision

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I hope they like bitter

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No - I am not sure given my political realities at the moment that anyone could give me this assurance in this life now -I am pretty scared stiff now of what my politicians are doing - I don't care what happens to my body after i die, eaten by aliens is ok by me , save my family paying for a funeral but I am 70 y.o. now and beginning to be very afraid of the world situation.
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@AncientNight I'm in the UK and we have a lot of goons in the Tory party at the moment -we have a reputation for going gung-ho to war just to make the politicians look good and Theresa May is a sad sorry leader and floundering so a lot to worry about

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Yes, but maybe.....what kind of life would it be if you knew you were going to be consumed afterward?

unless you have signed up to be burned you are going to be consumed afterwards. what kind of life do you have now ? 🙂

@SimonCyrene at the moment, just surviving day by day

@dexman2132 that's your answer then ?

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I don't know. How could they guarantee me a healthy body? Who would be around that I knew? Would I be alone?

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