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.
Worm food, alien food, 6 of one, 1/2 dozen oth the other.
SallyInStitches
Level 7
Apr 13, 2018
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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.
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?
AnneWimsey
Level 9
Apr 13, 2018
0
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.
ArthurPhillips
Level 6
Apr 14, 2018
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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.
TheLiberalGent
Level 7
Apr 14, 2018
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