# Who would you give an immortality pill to? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 19, 2013, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976 "2013-07-19T20:35:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976/21 "2013-07-20T13:21:14Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > This reminds me. George R.R. Martin would get my consideration. Forever just _might_ be enough time to ensure that the Song of Ice and Fire series is completed. No! It will become just another reason for him to procrastinate! ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976/22 "2013-07-20T13:48:01Z")
I’d keep them for the kids I haven’t had yet, but eventually plan to create. If we only have 2 kids, I’ll save one for my favorite grandchild (don’t lie, everyone has a favorite!). ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976/23 "2013-07-20T14:09:53Z")
Too bad Norman Borlaug is dead, he could’ve used one. Aside from him, whomever the 3 most productive scientists (medical, agricultural, microbial, etc) are on earth. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976/24 "2013-07-20T14:32:51Z")
Given the long term personal security issues an Immortal would face in our world (as I’ve detailed previously more than once), I wouldn’t give them to anyone else, especially not my family. I’d have to spend a few years thinking about whether or not I wanted to use it myself and prepare for my future life of Incognito Man, trying hard to never draw too much attention to myself. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976/25 "2013-07-20T15:25:18Z")
Fidel Castro - just to troll the U.S. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976/26 "2013-07-20T16:07:26Z")
> [@drastic\_quench](#): > > Fidel Castro - just to troll the U.S. Yeah, I was thinking the troll rout too. Except I’d give mine to one of the SCOTUS judges. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976/27 "2013-07-20T16:17:17Z")
An immortal pope might really change the church for the better. Pope Frank seems well-meaning. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976/28 "2013-07-20T16:23:53Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > Yeah, I was thinking the troll rout too. Except I’d give mine to one of the SCOTUS judges. If we are doing trolls I nominate George Carlin. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976/29 "2013-07-20T17:05:18Z")
> [@Mr.Kobayashi](#): > > I’m sure I can rustle up a canine version, but good luck trying to con 'em into swallowing a pill. Bury it inside a hunk of cheese and toss it in the air, and it’s no problem 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tacit\_Knowledge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@Tacit\_Knowledge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tacit_Knowledge)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976/30 "2013-07-20T17:30:37Z")
The Grim Reaper, of course. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976/31 "2013-07-20T18:00:10Z")
Aren’t there any Brits in this thread? Because obviously, you’d have to give the pill to whichever actor is currently playing Dr. Who. 🙂 (in case you don’t get it: Dr. Who is immortal. And the Tardis phone booth thingy is too, I think. But it’s also the dumbest-looking time machine in science fiction.) ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976/32 "2013-07-20T19:18:37Z")
> [@Sr\_Siete](#): > > Fine, let’s see… Terry Pratchett, to start with. Beaten to it. But only if it cured his Alzheimers embuggerance too. > [@chappachula](#): > > Aren’t there any Brits in this thread? > Because obviously, you’d have to give the pill to whichever actor is currently playing Dr. Who. 🙂 No, the current crop only do it for a few years before moving on. They don’t deserve it. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976/33 "2013-07-20T19:25:45Z")
> [@Tacit\_Knowledge](#): > > The Grim Reaper, of course. Isn’t he already immortal? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976/34 "2013-07-20T21:30:00Z")
> [@Mr.Kobayashi](#): > > I’m sure I can rustle up a canine version, but good luck trying to con 'em into swallowing a pill. My dog has no problems with pills, I put the pill in a spoonful of peanut butter and that’s all she wrote! So, my dog Nathan. One pill. I’ll need time to think of the others. ---
**Author:** ![My\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@My\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Lord)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976/35 "2013-07-20T21:36:37Z")
Imortal yet you can die? That sucks ass…my dis well be a true immortal, un-killable to all forms of death. ---
**Author:** ![Junkman209](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/junkman209/32/5522_2.png) [@Junkman209](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junkman209)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976/36 "2013-07-20T22:36:25Z")
How disappointing. I clicked on this thread because I thought the title said “Who would you give an \*\*immorality \*\*pill to?” I would hold onto the pill and not make a hasty choice. ---
**Author:** ![My\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@My\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Lord)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976/37 "2013-07-20T23:16:09Z")
> [@Junkman209](#): > > How disappointing. I clicked on this thread because I thought the title said “Who would you give an \*\*immorality \*\*pill to?” > > I would hold onto the pill and not make a hasty choice. Should have called the pill a longjevity pill instead of immortality pill. The universe is what 13.7 billion years old? Huh! Thats nothing, can you imagine the universes that came before it? Take a number like all the sand there is on the planet, [![](https://i.imgur.com/e9DJjCo.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/e9DJjCo.jpg) Than times it by all the sand there is on each planet like ours, in the galaxie; in verse there are billions of planets in a single galaxie, so then after that times it by all the galaxies there is in a super cluster; than imagine how much sand is in the universe…take that number and times it by a **magnamillion** … > **[Names of large numbers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers)** > > Depending on context (e.g. language, culture, region), some large numbers have names that allow for describing large quantities in a textual form; not mathematical. For very large values, the text is generally shorter than a decimal numeric representation although longer than scientific notation. > Two naming scales for large numbers have been used in English and other European languages since the early modern era: the long and short scales. Most English variants use the short scale today, but ... Still not impressed? Now think of the multiverse/omniverse…there are magnimillions of those as well, imagine the number accumilation in zeros in the number/table of content of individual sand there is in all the multiverses, than times that number again an again as if you were counting as easy as 1, 2, 3, 4, ? MIND FUCKED que the exploding head gif. So a True imortal would be hell of fucking gifted, to survive those eons of lifes existance, do you honestly think that stupid laws; guide lines and morals apply to anything to a Immortal who has wittnessed multiverses spawn galatic clusters, who in harbors unlimted life with unlimted possibilitys? Huh! Makes me think at this point morals are good to go by, but in reality you can do what ever the hell you wanna do, since we are so micro scopic that no matter what we do wont have a effect in the bigger picture; not to mention we are a re-accuring event…so even when we die; we somehow actualy wont die in-definitely, reincarnation is possible then people think; even if you fake it. XD XD XD ---
**Author:** ![Dunkelheit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dunkelheit/32/248_2.png) [@Dunkelheit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunkelheit)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976/38 "2013-07-20T23:26:51Z")
Stephen Fry. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976/39 "2013-07-20T23:31:00Z")
> [@Junkman209](#): > > How disappointing. I clicked on this thread because I thought the title said “Who would you give an \*\*immorality \*\*pill to?” Combine the two for eternal fun! ---
**Author:** ![Tacit\_Knowledge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@Tacit\_Knowledge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tacit_Knowledge)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976/40 "2013-07-21T01:07:57Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Isn’t he already immortal? Consider it an insurance policy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976.md?page=3)