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200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« on: January 05, 2013, 08:36:43 AM »
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2013, 08:39:26 AM »
Tough one. My first thought is 200 years, but I'm not sure I could handle watching everyone around me die because of their much shorter lifespans. Based on that, I'm actually undecided for now.
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2013, 08:45:23 AM »
How would i age?
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2013, 08:53:41 AM »
The money. Definitely.
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2013, 08:53:48 AM »
I voted 200 more years to live, but only if that doesn't mean 80 years of regular life and then 120 more of being old and pooping yourself.
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2013, 08:55:57 AM »
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How would i age?

Normally. Your health, appearance, etc. would scale with the extra time you've been given.
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2013, 08:56:51 AM »
Assuming you get to live the average life span, I would definitely take the 200 million dollars.
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2013, 08:57:54 AM »
I'd go with immediate fortune. With that type of cash and wise planning I could guarantee financial stability for a few generations. I'd be able to build the all inclusive compound I daydream about when the lottery gets high, and one aspect of that is having an area dedicated to preserving the memory and essence of family members who pass on. An eternal life on earth so to speak.
   I personally don't think it all ends when our bodies quit working and believe what's to come is far greater than what's here, so I don't want to prolong that experience at all. Plus, 200 million bucks sounds great right about now.
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2013, 09:05:49 AM »
Prolonged life. I have so many projects to do.
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #9 on: January 05, 2013, 09:14:25 AM »
The money. Though living long is tempting as hell as well.
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2013, 09:38:11 AM »
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2013, 09:42:07 AM »
Would rather have the money so I can spend my life with those I love, comfortably.
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2013, 09:47:35 AM »
I think I'd choose the money. I'm not the kind of person who dreams of being rich, but I could find many good ways to use the money and even if I died suddenly, my close ones could have it. I wouldn't want to live for 200 years, because it would be depressing to see my friends and family members die before me and if my life got boring and painful at some point, it wouldn't be nice to think "100 more years to go - shit!"
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #13 on: January 05, 2013, 09:49:38 AM »
Cash, I've seen enough of life to know I don't want 200 more years of it.
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #14 on: January 05, 2013, 09:57:03 AM »
Exactly, give me the cash.
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #15 on: January 05, 2013, 10:09:08 AM »
Tough call. My initial inclination is the cash.  However, this is an extraordinary time to be alive. After four thousand years of normal evolution, we turned a corner in the 1900's. We're now growing and learning exponentially. Change is coming at a rate that's simply unheard of. Hell, just 50 years from now the world will be unrecognizable to us. My interest in longevity isn't for myself, insomuch as I really want to see what happens to mankind. I'm fascinated by where we'll be in 200 years.

Of course there's always the possibility that you opt for 200 years, and then get Captain Trips and die.  That'd suck.
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #16 on: January 05, 2013, 10:11:10 AM »
Quote from: El Barto on January 05, 2013, 10:09:08 AM
Tough call. My initial inclination is the cash.  However, this is an extraordinary time to be alive. After four thousand years of normal evolution, we turned a corner in the 1900's. We're now growing and learning exponentially. Change is coming at a rate that's simply unheard of. Hell, just 50 years from now the world will be unrecognizable to us. My interest in longevity isn't for myself, insomuch as I really want to see what happens to mankind. I'm fascinated by where we'll be in 200 years.

Of course there's always the possibility that you opt for 200 years, and then get Captain Trips and die.  That'd suck.

I was hoping the hypothetical situation safe-guarded me against dying before my guaranteed 200, otherwise I'm sure to die before then due to general unhealthiness or cancer or something.
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #17 on: January 05, 2013, 10:15:19 AM »
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Tough call. My initial inclination is the cash.  However, this is an extraordinary time to be alive. After four thousand years of normal evolution, we turned a corner in the 1900's. We're now growing and learning exponentially. Change is coming at a rate that's simply unheard of. Hell, just 50 years from now the world will be unrecognizable to us. My interest in longevity isn't for myself, insomuch as I really want to see what happens to mankind. I'm fascinated by where we'll be in 200 years.

Of course there's always the possibility that you opt for 200 years, and then get Captain Trips and die.  That'd suck.

I was hoping the hypothetical situation safe-guarded me against dying before my guaranteed 200, otherwise I'm sure to die before then due to general unhealthiness or cancer or something.
Even so. Is being one of the .1% that survives a pandemic really what you signed on for? I'm a loner by nature, so I'd do just fine, but I imagine most wouldn't cope too well.
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #18 on: January 05, 2013, 10:18:23 AM »
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Tough call. My initial inclination is the cash.  However, this is an extraordinary time to be alive. After four thousand years of normal evolution, we turned a corner in the 1900's. We're now growing and learning exponentially. Change is coming at a rate that's simply unheard of. Hell, just 50 years from now the world will be unrecognizable to us. My interest in longevity isn't for myself, insomuch as I really want to see what happens to mankind. I'm fascinated by where we'll be in 200 years.

Of course there's always the possibility that you opt for 200 years, and then get Captain Trips and die.  That'd suck.

I was hoping the hypothetical situation safe-guarded me against dying before my guaranteed 200, otherwise I'm sure to die before then due to general unhealthiness or cancer or something.
Even so. Is being one of the .1% that survives a pandemic really what you signed on for? I'm a loner by nature, so I'd do just fine, but I imagine most wouldn't cope too well.

Comes back to my earlier point about not wanting to outlive everyone you know. It may even be worse if you're a loner, because you're going to notice the death of an individual you care for more than if you had a lot of friends.
I'd love to live longer if everyone else was in the same boat too, but if it's just me, it's going to kind of suck.
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #19 on: January 05, 2013, 10:20:24 AM »
This is a no-brainer.  Gimme the money.
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #20 on: January 05, 2013, 10:22:28 AM »
Money.

Nothing could happen in the next 200 years that would make the following 200 years less interesting. So if I live for 200 years, I'll just be too curious what could happen even later, etc.

Why not use the 200 mill to enjoy the life you have.
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #21 on: January 05, 2013, 10:28:39 AM »
The money, easily.
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #22 on: January 05, 2013, 10:29:01 AM »
200 more years. Life is awesome. And I'm sure I'd make a lot of money as a 200 year old who still looks like he's 60.
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #23 on: January 05, 2013, 10:30:12 AM »
Took me about half a second to decide on prolonged life. Living 200+ years (I'm assuming it'd be more realistic in that it's just the 'probable' age in which one will die; for instance if I were healthy and active I could live to 210..or visa versa) would be fucking amazing. The changes I'd be able to see, the changes I'd be able to make perhaps, the amount of knowledge one would accumulate after that first 100 stretch...so much more potential. Dangerously horrifying in one aspect, but only for the fact that in 200 years, shit can really do a 180; it'd either be awesome or horrible. Either way, I'm one to take it at face value and be happy that I could see that much of life no matter what. Yeah, friends and family dying long before me would suck, but that's about it. I'm kind of numb to death at this point and no matter how long something lives, everything has an expiration date. In the end that would hardly affect me, especially considering...200 years.

What's really sad? That amount of money is not much at all if you're living 200 years, and on the other side of that coin, 200 years still isn't a long time to live if you're looking at the lifespan of all beings; I mean, there's fucking fish out there that live more than 200 years (...and whales). Not by much, but still. It's funny how pathetically short human lives are. I used to find that so weird as a kid, that despite how advanced we are, certain animals that we find insignificant will outlive all of us without a doubt. Either way this hypothetical 'gift' situation sucks ass. As does life at the end no matter how much money you have or how long you've already lived.  :lol
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #24 on: January 05, 2013, 10:42:04 AM »
I don't even need 1 million dollars (though it would be nice), much less 200 mil.

On the other hand, life well spent is infinitely valuable. Imagine the things you could do with an extra 123 years of life (assuming you would die at 77, or whatever the average life expectancy is where you're from).

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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #25 on: January 05, 2013, 10:52:38 AM »
If I'd be healthy for 199.5 years - prolonged life.....
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #26 on: January 05, 2013, 12:05:10 PM »
Don't want the money and I'm already being cryogenically frozen at 65. :D
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #27 on: January 05, 2013, 12:18:20 PM »
I don't think I want to live for another 200 years.
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #28 on: January 05, 2013, 12:35:35 PM »
shit i voted year by accident - definitely money.
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #29 on: January 05, 2013, 12:36:51 PM »
Money. I don't want to watch everyone I love die around me.
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #30 on: January 05, 2013, 12:39:33 PM »
For a lot of people, it seems like the dilemma is not between an extra 200 years and $200 million. The dilemma is between a long life and a short life. It sounds like a lot of people just don't want to live an extended life at all.
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« Reply #31 on: January 05, 2013, 01:02:20 PM »
That definitely seems to be the trend, which kinda surprises me...
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #32 on: January 05, 2013, 01:14:55 PM »
Neither. I couldn't stand to watch all my loved ones pass away, and I don't know what I'd do with all that money. Yes it'd set my hypothetical descendents up for life, but I don't want them to be inheritance kiddies.
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #33 on: January 05, 2013, 01:18:35 PM »
Why not just take the money and donate it to charity?
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Re: 200 more years to live or 200 million dollars?
« Reply #34 on: January 05, 2013, 01:23:30 PM »
Probably the easiest question ever.

Money. Like Blob said, I couldn't stand seeing all the ones I know now just die. It'd be weird and really uncomfortable. Honestly, it'd be fucking boring lasting that long.
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