I would want to be the only person to have it, simply because everyone else having it would make everyone become an utter bastard.

However, there would need to be the strict stipulation that I could turn it off at any time and let myself die, simply to avoid the precise events in said article linked above.
Because that wouldn't be any fun at all.

Immortality? Hell no, keep that thing away from me! I mean go and be immortal all you like, I'd very much prefer my life to end at some point. Preferably before I get bored off my ass because there's not as much as a proton left in the universe.

Can't we just put my mind into a machine's body? That way i could benefit society in so many other ways, like space exploration, no need to send up oxygen or water. Just me, and some other robot pals.

No, I would never want to become immortal. One lifetime is enough for me. I think it would drive me crazy eventually. Or the grief of watching everyone I care about die then be replaced by new loved ones who would also end up dying would destroy me.
I don't think society should have it either. It would create far more problems that it could solve.

If it happens, this guy will be the one to make it so: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil

I'm still undecided. I've had hours of discussion about the implications of immortality, and the huge problems and reforms it would require, and I've not even scratched the surface of fully discussing it.

Absolutely. As long as immortality comes with a death clause (eg. there can be only one).

yes, I'll have immortality but under two conditions.
A. I have a Doctor Who rebirth style once every hundred years or so (between 1 and 2 hundred years).
B. I get to choose when to kill myself.

I'll take the pill for myself. Does not matter if I still float around somewhere when it's all over.

immortality? hell no a healing factor? hell yeah something like deadpool's or wolverine's healing factor immortality would just have me watch everybody i love around me die i don't want that i want to die of really old age not have live for eternity while watching everyone around me again and again eternal torture.

I don't think immortality should be something you can just have with enough money, i feel as if you want to be immortal, you should have to earn it in one method or another.

Put in terms of the poll, not at all.

Blobpie:
Can't we just put my mind into a machine's body? That way i could benefit society in so many other ways, like space exploration, no need to send up oxygen or water. Just me, and some other robot pals.

That would be awesome
If when you die, or before you die, you could have that happen
As a robot you still felt emotions and could think, but didn't feel pain, nor hunger, nor become sick, etc...
Yeah, I'd have that done

im 39 and yeah i think ill skip the whole immortality thing.

Immortality would be shitty on a personal level (I'd like to die at some point, thank you very much), and it'd be horrible on a social and societal level. Extreme social conservativity. Too few jobs. etc.

As I have watch Highlander, I say no. It would suck.

I'd give it to everyone, just to see what happened. Remove the constraint of aging and there's no limit to what can be achieved.

No, thank you. The world is getting to be pretty damn over-populated as is, there's no need to have people living past their time.

Apart of the cost of the pill, the rich would be the only people who could even afford a lifestyle of immortality. They would have the means to travel and see the world while us working class people would just extend our requirement to be employed. 300 years old and still in a menial white collar job to pay the bills? No friggin way.

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Blobpie:
Can't we just put my mind into a machine's body? That way i could benefit society in so many other ways, like space exploration, no need to send up oxygen or water. Just me, and some other robot pals.

That would be awesome
If when you die, or before you die, you could have that happen
As a robot you still felt emotions and could think, but didn't feel pain, nor hunger, nor become sick, etc...
Yeah, I'd have that done

And then you get them to make you smaller, but no less lethal robot minions >:)

I can't think of anything worse. And to be the only one who was immortal would just be torture. No thank you!

Wolverine18:

And in the longer term, 1,000,000 years from now you probably won't even recognize the human race and you will be a freak.

made me think of the 'prehistorc ice-man from 1995' episode of South Park!

I'm not sure, come back in 500 years and ask me again :)

Pinkamena:
So, lets say that science creates a pill, that if ingested, will stop you from aging another day. You cannot die from old age! How wonderful. It costs a lot though, and most regular working-class people are unable to pay for them.
But how do you think society would change if anyone with enough money could live forever? Obviously some sort of populace control program would have to be put into action to keep the world from overflowing with 20-something year olds. And is immortality something we actually would want?

Someone was watching In Time. So yes, as long as I can convince the beautiful heiress to a fortune to come rob banks with me.

I'd take the immortality to see what happens in the future and what i can accomplish. Eventually the world becomes a sandbox and there is oh so much you can do in a sandbox before getting bored. Who knows maybe i'd build up(something) and start over again multiple times. Least there will still be more games to play.

Death is an ultimately natural part of life, and I personally find the thought of it soothing. Everything ends and knowing that you won't live forever gives all the more value for a human life. There's also a whole load of horrible things that would come with immortality, from seeing everyone you ever loved die, to finding motivation to do a single thing after a long time you really should've been dead already.

A world in which immortality can be bought would be an awful place. The super rich are influential enough as it is without them living forever.

However, I'd take immortality for myself, if only because I have a great fear of death, or more precisely of what may or may not come next.

Mmm maybe since I can still died but not from old age. Still I would guess most people would want the pill before they reach into their 30's or above. On the other hand I don't want to spend alot of years to paid it off, sure it will get paid off eventually (since you're immortal and all) but the process will still be annoying.
I would think not being able to died natually will be annoying as I don't think I'm willing to take my own life unless I paid someone to killed me but even then it won't be a suprise (unless I hinted that I wanted to died and someone orchestrate my demise).

Seeing as Baccano! was the last anime I watched...

It kind of leads to a lot of unhappiness. I'd opt to not have immortality even though someone with noble intentions could change humanity for the better using it. Too many people would go nuts with power or be trapped in the mindset of an earlier age with different morals. That and us mortals, once we detect an immortal, will want to know the SCIENCE! behind it all.

Too much bother for everyone involved.

Yes, absolutely.

True immortality would suck hard, but willful immortality is something everyone should have. We should all be able to decide when we want to die. However, population control would be important, but I never viewed childrearing as an innate right to begin with.