# Who would you give an immortality pill to?

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 9:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976/41 "2013-07-21T09:42:31Z")

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I dunno, who’s the highest bidder?

Because, really, I’m not particularly looking forward to an eternity of working 40 hours a week, when do I actually get to enjoy this time?

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**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976/42 "2013-07-21T14:17:29Z")

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Ian Brady - so that he can be force fed forever - he is trying to get a move to a regular prison so he can starve himself to death, and anything he wants should be denied to him, so give him an immortality pill.

> **[Ian Brady: I murdered four more people and buried Keith Bennett in Yorkshire](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ian-brady-murdered-four-more-2007755)**
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> Moors Murderer Brady, who has lost his bid to be moved to a prison, made the boasts in previously unpublished letters

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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976/43 "2013-07-21T14:24:39Z")

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> [@usedtobe](#):
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> the Wandering Jew,

The what 😕

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**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-would-you-give-an-immortality-pill-to/663976/44 "2013-07-21T16:33:13Z")

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> [@Ike\_Witt](#):
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> The what 😕

> **[Wandering Jew](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wandering_jew)**
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> The Wandering Jew (occasionally referred to as the Eternal Jew, an antisemitic calque from German "der Ewige Jude") is a mythical immortal man whose legend began to spread in Europe in the 13th century.\[a\] In the original legend, a Jew who taunted Jesus on the way to the Crucifixion was then cursed to walk the Earth until the Second Coming. The exact nature of the wanderer's indiscretion varies in different versions of the tale, as do aspects of his character; sometimes he is said to be a shoem...

Legendary figure. A Jew who mocked Christ on the cross, and was cursed to wander the earth until Judgement Day.

Barry Sadler ripped off the idea for his “Casca” novels.

The movie “The Seventh Sign” and the TV series “Roar” ripped off Barry Sadler’s character for some of their characters.  
In light of this, my choice for the pill would have to be a Jewish travel agent. 🙂

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