# Would you marry Methuselah? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 26, 2010, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-marry-methuselah/555092 "2010-09-26T13:43:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-marry-methuselah/555092/21 "2010-09-26T16:42:29Z")
If this is someone I’d want to share my life with anyway, that’s the only thing that would matter. And if there were a way for two men to have kids, I’d definitely want that too. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-marry-methuselah/555092/22 "2010-09-26T17:00:18Z")
I’m just not the marrying kind of guy, so that’s a non-starter with anybody. But I’d likely be intrigued enough to hang with her for awhile. I figure she’s one of the Undying High Lords from the _Horseclans_-verse, and I’ve always wanted to meet Milo Morai. Or maybe I am Milo Morai, just haven’t realized it yet…Or maybe I’m Billy the Axe Morghun, whihc would also be cool. Especially if I get mindspeak and a battlecat… ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-marry-methuselah/555092/23 "2010-09-26T17:18:04Z")
We could be friends, but it would be too complicated to build a life with someone who was aging so slowly. Eventually we’d have to keep moving, or break up so as not to raise suspicion, and any children, and grandchildren who resulted would have to lie about their relationship to Methuselah, or be kept in the dark, to keep them from accidentally letting the truth slip out. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-marry-methuselah/555092/24 "2010-09-26T17:50:20Z")
If I loved her, thats all I’d need. To Love someone is to be with them to the last beat of your heart. But, to the extent that me getting older would hurt her & cause her pain…I’m not so sure. If I knew that being with her will do nothing in the end but cause her pain and sadness… well wouldn’t her happiness be the most important thing to me? Why would I want her to have and live with such agony for an eternity? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-marry-methuselah/555092/25 "2010-09-26T17:54:16Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > If I loved her, thats all I’d need. To Love someone is to be with them to the last beat of your heart. > > But, to the extent that me getting older would hurt her & cause her pain…I’m not so sure. If I knew that being with her will do nothing in the end but cause her pain and sadness… well wouldn’t her happiness be the most important thing to me? Why would I want her to have and live with such agony for an eternity? Short of suicide, the grief of everyone she knows dying before her is unavoidable from her point of view. I can’t see how she profits from denying herself, or being denied, love. More cynically, she’s been widowed, divorced, or abandoned many times already. Her take your (to her) imminent death probably isn’t the same as yours would be if your new bride died a month after the marriage. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-marry-methuselah/555092/26 "2010-09-26T18:04:24Z")
I said I’d have children but I might not–that is, I’m not sure if I’ll ever have kids with ANYONE. But what I meant is, the person being Methulselah-esque wouldn’t influence my decision. If I loved them, it wouldn’t make me hesitate. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-marry-methuselah/555092/27 "2010-09-26T18:38:13Z")
I would probably date him for a while for the experience, but I’ve always through marriage should be a partnership of equals (at least potentially, and actually as often as possible), and there is simply no way we could ever be that. I’d certainly like to keep a life-long friendship with him, however. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-marry-methuselah/555092/28 "2010-09-26T20:59:04Z")
Let me get this straight I get to sleep with an attractive woman in her 20s for the rest of my life. I see no down side. I’d probably have kids too PTA meetings might be weird when the kid gets into high school but I think I would just claim her as my trophy wife. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-marry-methuselah/555092/29 "2010-09-26T21:06:16Z")
> [@Mrs.Cake](#): > > I would probably date him for a while for the experience, but I’ve always through marriage should be a partnership of equals (at least potentially, and actually as often as possible), and there is simply no way we could ever be that. I’d certainly like to keep a life-long friendship with him, however. Would you categorically refuse to marry a multi-millionaire? That’s not a marrige of equals either, after all. > [@Oredigger77](#): > > Let me get this straight I get to sleep with an attractive woman in her 20s for the rest of my life. I see no down side. I’d probably have kids too PTA meetings might be weird when the kid gets into high school but I think I would just claim her as my trophy wife. Or till she gets bored with you, or till the Illuminati catches her trail again because of something stupid thing you say twenty years hence blowing her cover and, on her way to change her identity for the 19th time, she pauses to blow your brains out. 😃 Anyway, I’m sure she could fake looking in her 40s when if she were careful. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-marry-methuselah/555092/30 "2010-09-26T21:12:29Z")
**Skald** , has this immortal babe stayed with her past husbands until they died? I’m just curious if she’d stick around until I die of old age or whatever. But yeah, like **Digger** said, it’s a chick that I love that’ll always remain in her physical prime. No way I’d pass that up. Plus I’d have a shitload to ask her. I can only imagine what she’s seen. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-marry-methuselah/555092/31 "2010-09-26T21:15:04Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > **Skald** , has this immortal babe stayed with her past husbands until they died? I’m just curious if she’d stick around until I die of old age or whatever. You could always ask her. Doing so, however, would be stupid. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-marry-methuselah/555092/32 "2010-09-26T21:24:28Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > > [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > > > **Skald** , has this immortal babe stayed with her past husbands until they died? I’m just curious if she’d stick around until I die of old age or whatever. > > You could always ask her. Doing so, however, would be stupid. So what you’re saying is that I should ask her? Edit: I don’t know why, but the “You could always ask her” part of your response seemed somewhat ominous. I might wind up fearing her once I learned the truth. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-marry-methuselah/555092/33 "2010-09-26T21:31:33Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Or till she gets bored with you, or till the Illuminati catches her trail again because of something stupid thing you say twenty years hence blowing her cover and, on her way to change her identity for the 19th time, she pauses to blow your brains out. 😃 > > Anyway, I’m sure she could fake looking in her 40s when if she were careful. I think that still goes down as a win. I mean now I sound like James Bond; always nailing 20 year olds and living a life of danger and excitement. Plus since she rich I can quit my job and take up being a house boy as my second career. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-marry-methuselah/555092/34 "2010-09-26T21:37:41Z")
> [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > > [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > > > You could always ask her. Doing so, however, would be stupid. > > So what you’re saying is that I should ask her? > > Edit: I don’t know why, but the “You could always ask her” part of your response seemed somewhat ominous. I might wind up fearing her once I learned the truth. “Honey, please tell me about all your previous lovers.” Yes, women ALWAYS respond well to THAT. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-marry-methuselah/555092/35 "2010-09-26T21:40:32Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > > [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > > > So what you’re saying is that I should ask her? > > > > Edit: I don’t know why, but the “You could always ask her” part of your response seemed somewhat ominous. I might wind up fearing her once I learned the truth. > > “Honey, please tell me about all your previous lovers.” > > Yes, women ALWAYS respond well to THAT. “Did you do anyone famous?” ---
**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:** [September 26, 2010, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-marry-methuselah/555092/36 "2010-09-26T22:19:43Z")
Yes. I seek to steal her Purity and Essence. Failing that, it’s worth it because of the long-lived children I could sire. Really though, there’s no downside. Wealthy, attractive, international, non-aging, experienced – and into ME for some reason? I’m on board. Finally, someone who can yell at the History Channel with me! ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2010, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-marry-methuselah/555092/37 "2010-09-26T22:36:35Z")
There is no way in hell even supposing the person in question is a female. At some point, I am going to ask how many other guys she has been with and I really don’t care if it is just one every couple of years. One thousand is still a whore in my book no matter who you are. I don’t want to hear about any parties that Caligula had back in 20’s (just the 20’s with no other numbers in front of it). One day you are just cleaning out a closet and out falls some documents. Great, love letters from Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin “Bennie” Franklin. How are you supposed to compete with that? It would be cool to get some inside stories on things but this is the ultimate Harold and Maude relationship and I am having none of it. No sir. If she decided to kill me, 50 years in prison would be just a time-out. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-marry-methuselah/555092/38 "2010-09-27T01:22:15Z")
You mean she will stay hot for the rest of my life? And take care of me in my old age? Heck, yeah, I’d marry her! And, as a social darwinist, I would feel obligated to have as many children as I could convince her to bear, in the hopes that some of them would turn out to be long-lived. It occurs to me that **she** might be reluctant to have children, since she would have to watch them grow old and die. ---
**Author:** ![Peeta\_Mellark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Peeta\_Mellark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peeta_Mellark)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-marry-methuselah/555092/39 "2010-09-27T01:41:20Z")
I’d stay with him, but we wouldn’t have kids what with me lacking a uterus and all. So long as this is someone I loved and wanted to spend my life with, I’d be okay with him being immortal. It’d be hard to be 80 and be with somebody who looks 25, but with enough Viagra I’d suffer through somehow. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-marry-methuselah/555092/40 "2010-09-27T01:57:25Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > > [@AClockworkMelon](#): > > > > So what you’re saying is that I should ask her? > > > > Edit: I don’t know why, but the “You could always ask her” part of your response seemed somewhat ominous. I might wind up fearing her once I learned the truth. > > “Honey, please tell me about all your previous lovers.” > > Yes, women ALWAYS respond well to THAT. Maybe, but I can’t imagine being with someone as a life partner and not at least knowing the some of what happened in past relationships. If you are truly at the stage where you are considering marriage, pretty much everything should be on the table. In other words, if my merely asking the question would break us up, then it was not a good relationship to begin with. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-marry-methuselah/555092.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-marry-methuselah/555092.md?page=3)