# Poll: Would you become a vampire?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-become-a-vampire/550468
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 16, 2010, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-become-a-vampire/550468 "2010-08-16T23:09:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2010, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-become-a-vampire/550468/41 "2010-08-18T13:04:29Z")
> [@Chimera](#):
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> A pretty amazing percentage perfectly willing to become night-dwelling murders and monstrous parasites on humanity just for the chance to live longer than normal.
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> Perhaps this question needs to be added to the standard psychological exam as a test for Sociopathic Tendencies.
As noted above, True Blood vampires (the only one’s I’m personally familiar with) can live perfectly well without ever killing anything. I’m still on the fence about it, but would probably take the deal, mostly because I’m so curious about how society will evolve. So much has changed in the past hundred years, I’d love to see what happens next.
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2010, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-become-a-vampire/550468/42 "2010-08-18T13:46:09Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> > It’s almost like the _Star Trek_ transporter dilemma for me. Is it you beaming down or is it your clone?
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> > Vampires seem to be almost new people with superficially similar traits to their former selves. Would I be a vampire or would it be my doppelganger going goth forever instead? That’s the key question.
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> This idea has been used in some vampire stories. It was the official explanation for vampires used by vampire hunters in the White Wolf Masquerade world for example. If you were killed by a vampire, you died and your soul went off to the afterlife. And at the moment of your death, a demon would take possession of your body and your memories. So vampires were not humans, they were just soulless creatures that imitated humans so it was okay to kill them.
Another example would be the Sonja Blue series, where vampires are created when someone is drained of blood and the corpse infested with a basically mindless demonic entity. The entity raises the corpse, but the result is a feral creature driven by thirst because of brain damage due to death; the entity has to think with the brain of its host, but that brain isn’t working too well right off. Eventually they heal that damage (which is also why their powers get stronger over time; they are healing), but result is a predatory creature that only remembers the life of its human predecessor. Sonja Blue is unusual because she was dumped near a hospital and got modern emergency medical care immediately; so she never actually died, her human personality is still there and she’s as powerful as much older vampires because she never had to heal any damage to her brain like they did. And she not the demon is (mostly) in control.
In fact I understand that the Sonja Blue stories were an inspiration for a lot of later ones, so a lot of their features sound a little cliched because they created the cliches.
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### Author:  [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2010, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-become-a-vampire/550468/43 "2010-08-18T18:56:29Z")
If I could keep my soul and not have to kill people (or drink from them, animal blood would be better), hells yeah.
Oh, and can I loose these last 15 lbs first? That’d be great.
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### Author:  [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-become-a-vampire/550468/44 "2010-08-18T19:03:43Z")
As an atheist, I assume being converted into a sociopathic monster vampire would actually improve my morals. Sign me up.
But wait a month, I need to do some crazy fucking crunches first.
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-become-a-vampire/550468/45 "2010-08-18T19:36:14Z")
Couldn’t you just feed off of people without actually killing them? I wouldn’t feel too guilty about that. Plus, I’d be soulless so I wouldn’t care!
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### Author:  [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-become-a-vampire/550468/46 "2010-08-18T19:38:55Z")
I’d give it a shot, considering the alternative.
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### Author:  [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2010, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-become-a-vampire/550468/47 "2010-08-18T22:23:14Z")
The Twilight vampires are the least vampiric. I’d go with them.
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2010, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-become-a-vampire/550468/48 "2010-08-18T22:24:57Z")
> [@Superhal](#):
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> The Twilight vampires are the least vampiric. I’d go with them.
Well, yeah. That’s one of the things many people hate about them; they are more shiny superheroes than they are vampires.
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### Author:  [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2010, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-become-a-vampire/550468/49 "2010-08-18T22:47:08Z")
I could give serious consideration to being a Christopher Moore _Bloodsucking Fiends_-type vampire. I really liked Moore’s take on the whole issue of feeding, and there wasn’t any personality change in Jody other than what came about as a result of the powers she gained.
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### Author:  [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2010, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-become-a-vampire/550468/50 "2010-08-18T23:00:57Z")
> [@Gyrate](#):
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> A resounding no. Never mind being a vampire - just being immortal sounds horrible all on its own. I’m with Susan Ertz:
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> > Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
I always thought that this was a quote from Mark Twain.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2010, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-become-a-vampire/550468/51 "2010-08-18T23:04:54Z")
> [@Superhal](#):
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> The Twilight vampires are the least vampiric.
And yet strangely they’re the first ones we’d kill.
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### Author:  [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-would-you-become-a-vampire/550468/52 "2010-08-18T23:54:49Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> > [@Superhal](#):
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> > The Twilight vampires are the least vampiric.
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> And yet strangely they’re the first ones we’d kill.
It’s not the same thing. We want to kill Edward and Bella because they’re Edward and Bella: the fact that they’re vampires just makes them more grating. Unless Twilight vampirism _causes_ douchebagginess, we’re fine.
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