# If you had the chance to live an extra 100 years ... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 29, 2018, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-chance-to-live-an-extra-100-years/816998 "2018-06-29T15:44:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Ignotus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecc23a/32.png) [@Ignotus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignotus)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-chance-to-live-an-extra-100-years/816998/81 "2018-07-01T22:51:40Z")
Where do I sign? I’m in fairly good physical shape; and never having to visit a dentist anymore is a dealbreaker! ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2018, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-chance-to-live-an-extra-100-years/816998/82 "2018-07-01T22:59:22Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > No deal. I’m too old already. I’m not thrilled with the years I’ve had already. This. Ask me again 25 years ago. Make it 35 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-chance-to-live-an-extra-100-years/816998/83 "2018-07-02T01:52:22Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > The deal: You get to live an extra 100 years as you are now, then the aging process will start back up again. You can’t be physically injured, but you also can’t be physically modified in any way. Your aches, your pains, your weight, your allergies etc. will stay exactly the same as they are now, and any attempts to change them will fail-It’s a “Stay As Your Are” offer. > Do you take it? So what happens if I jump out of an airplane without a parachute? What happens if someone shoots me with an AR-15, with bullets hitting me in the torso multiple times? What happens if I step outside a space station without a space suit on? For the most part, I’m coming from the same POV as **RivkahChaya** : I don’t want to outlive the Firebug. But it sounds like this deal is the functional equivalent of super-powers in some ways, and that piques my interest a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-chance-to-live-an-extra-100-years/816998/84 "2018-07-02T03:17:03Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > So what happens if I jump out of an airplane without a parachute? What happens if someone shoots me with an AR-15, with bullets hitting me in the torso multiple times? What happens if I step outside a space station without a space suit on? > > For the most part, I’m coming from the same POV as **RivkahChaya** : I don’t want to outlive the Firebug. But it sounds like this deal is the functional equivalent of super-powers in some ways, and that piques my interest a bit. The deal isn’t that you _get_ to live an extra hundred years. The deal is that you _have_ to live an extra hundred years. No parachute-maybe thud, maybe boing, but no hurt. AR-15-The bullets either fall…or the bounce off and everyone else in the vicinity is in danger. Step outside the space station and you better hope gravity _does_ suck. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-chance-to-live-an-extra-100-years/816998/85 "2018-07-02T04:07:17Z")
I would take it. Why not? ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-chance-to-live-an-extra-100-years/816998/86 "2018-07-02T04:37:45Z")
No way. I’ve got a cold, my back hurts, and I’m nearsighted. Besides, I’m not overly confident humanity will still _be_ here in 100 years, the way we’re fucking up the earth. ---
**Author:** ![K2500](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f6c823/32.png) [@K2500](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K2500)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-chance-to-live-an-extra-100-years/816998/87 "2018-07-02T04:39:49Z")
So if I take the deal today, then get trapped in the hold of a sunken ocean liner or get my invincible ass buried in a lava flow toorrow, then I’m stuck in place, to wait a hundred years to begin dying. If I can’t be harmed or feel pain maybe I could use my hand as a really slow hacksaw to make my escape. If no pain then do I still feel pleasure? A hundred years without good sex might suck. ---
**Author:** ![CelticKnot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/celticknot/32/3392_2.png) [@CelticKnot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CelticKnot)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-chance-to-live-an-extra-100-years/816998/88 "2018-07-02T04:53:30Z")
No thanks. I don’t want to continue with heart problems, asthma, sore knees and feet, etc., etc. I’m looking forward to my glorified body. And glorified hair. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-chance-to-live-an-extra-100-years/816998/89 "2018-07-02T11:44:59Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > The deal isn’t that you _get_ to live an extra hundred years. The deal is that you _have_ to live an extra hundred years. No parachute-maybe thud, maybe boing, but no hurt. AR-15-The bullets either fall…or the bounce off and everyone else in the vicinity is in danger. Step outside the space station and you better hope gravity _does_ suck. So we’re talking invulnerability that makes Deadpool look like Mr. Glass? Now that’s a game changer. I’d do it without hesitation once I get some artificial lenses for my eyes. I started getting old man eyes about 10 years ago and it’s totally annoying. Give me that, and a couple months to get in shape and I’m your huckleberry. Or I might do it anyway, my current problems ain’t so bad. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-chance-to-live-an-extra-100-years/816998/90 "2018-07-02T11:56:44Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > So we’re talking invulnerability that makes Deadpool look like Mr. Glass? Now that’s a game changer. I’d do it without hesitation once I get some artificial lenses for my eyes. I started getting old man eyes about 10 years ago and it’s totally annoying. Give me that, and a couple months to get in shape and I’m your huckleberry. Or I might do it anyway, my current problems ain’t so bad. The deal is now, or never. You in? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-chance-to-live-an-extra-100-years/816998/91 "2018-07-02T13:15:42Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > The deal isn’t that you _get_ to live an extra hundred years. The deal is that you _have_ to live an extra hundred years. I get that part, including the part where my physical condition remains unchanged for the next century, right down to the length of my fingernails. > [@](#): > > Step outside the space station and you better hope gravity _does_ suck. Why? Sounds like even the cold and vacuum of space won’t affect my physical condition. Worst case, I get lonely and bored if gravity doesn’t pull me back to Earth. (If gravity _does_ pull me back to Earth, it sounds like my clothes would burn up on re-entry, but my body would be unaffected.) Actually, I’d be the perfect human space explorer. My standard phrase about space exploration is that _space is for robots_. When we send humans into space, they need food and water and oxygen and heat for the journey, and a protective bubble that reliably shields them from the cold and vacuum and cosmic radiation of space. Robots need none of those things, which is why Curiosity is on Mars and New Horizons visited Pluto. But it sounds like I wouldn’t need food or water or air or heat or a protective bubble to go into space, so it would actually be cheaper to send me on a round trip to Mars and back than to do the same thing with a robot, since if NASA sent me, they wouldn’t have to build the robot. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-chance-to-live-an-extra-100-years/816998/92 "2018-07-02T15:00:10Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > The deal is now, or never. You in? Well…I guess I could just get some progressive lenses if I have 100 years to pay for them. Alright. ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-chance-to-live-an-extra-100-years/816998/93 "2018-07-02T15:07:33Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > The deal: You get to live an extra 100 years as you are now, then the aging process will start back up again. You can’t be physically injured, but you also can’t be physically modified in any way. Your aches, your pains, your weight, your allergies etc. will stay exactly the same as they are now, and any attempts to change them will fail-It’s a “Stay As Your Are” offer. > Do you take it? Yes. I’m 46 and look pretty good still. My aches and pains aren’t too bad. Hell, I’d probably say yet UNTIL my aches and pains become unbearable, which for some people is never. ---
**Author:** ![Textual\_Innuendo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/898d66/32.png) [@Textual\_Innuendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Textual_Innuendo)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-chance-to-live-an-extra-100-years/816998/94 "2018-07-04T14:38:50Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > You don’t have to do any of those things, but you can still enjoy doing those things if you wish. You also can’t kill yourself, btw. I mean, just THIS sells it for me, even if it were only for the remainder of my natural span instead of an extra 100 years. Eliminating the need to eat, sleep, and breathe?? Sign me up yesterday! Sure, it will suck to outlive loved ones, but that already happens (and has happened). And for the hedonists among us, this is a major Dorian Gray-esque opportunity here. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-chance-to-live-an-extra-100-years/816998/95 "2018-07-04T18:13:28Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Could I still get pregnant? I don’t have kids, so yes if I could reproduce, no if I couldn’t. An extra hundred years would be pretty sweet, but not at the expense of never having children. > [@Czarcasm](#): > > Sorry, no. You could still adopt. Or she could have kids in 100 years, when everything reverts to normal, right? And just think, no periods in the mean time! Score!! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2018, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-chance-to-live-an-extra-100-years/816998/96 "2018-07-04T18:20:10Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > Or she could have kids in 100 years, when everything reverts to normal, right? > > And just think, no periods in the mean time! Score!! Is true…and that might give her enough time to acquire the moolah needed to raise kids. It would be nice to have the mortgage paid off _before_ you fill it with family. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-had-the-chance-to-live-an-extra-100-years/816998.md?page=4)