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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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Seems like a life of control they would not want all the cattle poisoned with twinkie goo.
azzow2
Level 9
Apr 12, 2018
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@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.
I hesitated. For some reason I'm voting none of the above.
Angelface
Level 7
Apr 13, 2018
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@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.
Yes, but maybe.....what kind of life would it be if you knew you were going to be consumed afterward?
dexman2132
Level 5
Apr 12, 2018
1
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 ?
Funny - the only aspect I have issue with is having the brain of a 30yr old. I'd want to be wiser than that - so many lessons I've learned since being 30 !
As for eating me ? Have at it aliens - it seems you prefer aged meat !
evergreen
Level 8
Apr 12, 2018
6
Good answer, aged meat, I love it.
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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jacpod
Level 8
Apr 12, 2018
1
@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
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?
Always_Curious
Level 2
Apr 12, 2018
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I HATE that 'Sir' sh**.
I'm mildly disappointed. I always thought aliens would be vegan.
MyLiege
Level 7
Apr 12, 2018
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LOL
Yes, I'd be happy to forfeit my corpse in exchange for the much longer life span and knowing I would not have to worry about financial concerns, etc. However, your question does not address certain contingencies and other aspects of this "deal". For example, it's quite possible to have a fatal accident long before you reach 200 years of age. Are the aliens going to resurrect you from the dead? Repair your body and mind? And you mention the good life promised to your friends and family. One could conceivably claim hundreds if not thousands of friends. Do they all get that "good life" as well? Lastly, if aliens were advanced enough to endow us with the gifts that you are outlining, it's highly unlikely they would have any interest in consuming us once we expire.
42Belvedere
Level 4
Apr 12, 2018
3
I don't know. How could they guarantee me a healthy body? Who would be around that I knew? Would I be alone?
sassygirl3869
Level 9
Apr 12, 2018
1
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.
TheLiberalGent
Level 7
Apr 14, 2018
1
Well, were I buried on Earth, I'd just be feeding the worms. Won't really matter to me, I'll be dead.
JosephHarrison
Level 7
Apr 12, 2018
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I'd say yes. To me it's not much different than donating my body to science. I think my family would be horrified though.
NicThePoet
Level 7
Apr 12, 2018
4
worms, aliens, alien worms ... who cares, nibble away
SimonCyrene
Level 7
Apr 12, 2018
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