Even though death has been around as long as human existence has, it’s one of the most mysterious and unknown things out there. As such, it sparks quite a bit of talk and philosophy in hopes of becoming more identifiable as an inevitability. And maybe we can find a way around it.
And if we do, we can only hope to be thrown back 3,000 years and then we’d be set because folks are already speculating what they’d do under such niche circumstances.
I’d totally appear in random moments throughout history and make sure I’m photographed (or painted) jfk? I’m there. fall of the Roman Empire? I’m there. Boston tea party? I’m there. Standing about 300 feet away from the White House on Jan 6th 2021? I’m there. Just be some weird enigma of history.
demerchmichael , Pixabay / pexels Report
It’s a trap, you would end up in space because the earth was a a different spot back then, malicious genie detected
dying_animal , Pixabay / pexels Report
I might accept this but I would need more information. 3000 years ago would be like 976 BC. Would I show up where I live now, or some where else? Could I take anything with me. Is immortality just not aging and disease or does it include not being violently k***ed.
Tink2013 , Pavel Danilyuk / pexels Report
Hell yeah would write my own bible and start a bonkers religion just for the fun😅
TheNobodyHimself , John-Mark Smith / pexels Report
I might be immortal but I’d still be a woman. So no, I don’t think I could hack those 3000 years.
random_username_96 , Karolina Grabowska / pexels Report
I’ve done 37 years and already feel about done lol edit: this isn’t a cry for help, just sayin a lot more time sounds like a nightmare.
bodycount19 , Andrea Piacquadio / pexels Report
No. Because I have kids who I love and if I’m immortal and they aren’t….I mean…honest to goodness truth: I don’t want to be alive if my children aren’t.
mejok , Vidal Balielo Jr. / pexels Report
You really can’t do it. You’d need incredibly specific conditions. If it’s just the “no aging” immortality, good luck surviving for thousands of years. You’re probably gonna be put in a forest next to a bear or some st and die right away anyways. Or you’ll trip over something trying to get out of the forest, cut your leg, and die of infection. Or you’ll starve to death because you don’t know where you are and aren’t a wilderness man. If it’s the “invincible can’t die” immortality then hooooooooly st. Gonna be a fun run. Let’s say humanity gets off Earth and you don’t sit here until the sun expands and engulfs the planet. So you’re not burning inside of the sun for billions of years. Maybe you tour the galaxy, great time much fun. You’re galactic god emperor! Way to go! What an accomplishment I mean boy howdy. How could it go wrong from here? Well after a few billion years the andromeda galaxy collides with the Milky Way and your empire is toast. Oh well, it’s been a fun run. So what’s next? Good question, well, it’s 10^100 years of suffering. Waiting for the heat death of the universe. Does that kill you? Probably not, because you are pure magic. Protons have decayed. There is no universe. Just you. In empty abandon. Forever. It’s the worst possible thing that can be imagined.
ballimir37 , Kindel Media / pexels Report
No. No, that sounds awful all the way around. First off I do not want to be immortal second off I do not want to go back to a time when there are no flushing toilets. Yuck!
britishbobsyouruncle , Engin Akyurt / pexels Report
Yes, I’m black. Let’s just say there’s going to be some changes around here.
jarmine550 , Yan Krukau / pexels Report
I wouldn’t want to do that. I’m scared of the person I would end up becoming by outliving everyone I ever care about, and having to do it over and over again with each person I meet. I feel like I would stop valuing human life and I would become a monster who views people as toys to amuse myself. My concept of time would also be warped due to it no longer being something I care about either. I’m happy with the life that I have now, and I’d rather make the most of the time I have, rather than be immortal and have all the time in the world.
screechypete , Andrea Piacquadio / pexels Report
Immortal without health issues, being a perfectly healthy man with current skills and knowledge, then I am all okay to go all the way 3000 years back! I can manage to build a better world!!!
nextdoorboy_chn , Julian Jagtenberg / pexels Report
Hang on 3000 years, you are either gonna be famous to live long, get caught by government and be used as a lab rat forever because youre never die, or living anonymously for the rest of your live. I need another superpower other than being immortal tbh
ungratefulbatsard , Artem Podrez / pexels Report
Can you choose too die at any point? If not the 3000 years is irrelevant, I’m more concerned about being stuck alone in the void 900 quadrillion years from now.
HMSon777 , Alex Fu / pexels Report
No pads, no antibiotics for UTI, slavery, and no Beyoncé. Double it and give it to the next person please.
AlarmingBuy4702 , JESHOOTS.com / pexels Report
No, for 2 reasons. 1. The thought of living forever would be a nightmare for me. 2. I’m a woman, so…yeah, no way.
Spacegod87 , SHVETS production / pexels Report
I’m honestly not sure I’m strong enough to deal with everyone around me dying, over and over. I am a pretty empathetic person, and I imagine at some point, you lose the ability to form that sort of emotional bond. I find the movie “The Man from Earth” (and its sequel) to be fascinating, but one of the things that struck me is that the main character, who has been alive since cave men were a thing, has a very hard time forming love bonds - he’s seen everyone he cared about die so many times over that he’s just moved past that emotional experience. I don’t know if I could handle that, to be honest. Also not sure I’d want to live through millennia of being oppressed and confined to the kitchen before being able to live as an equal to men. I really like my life, and would intellectually love to see society develop over time like that (am currently an academic), but it’s a lot harder to do academic study in early universities if you’re female, as I am. Pretty sure I’d be burned as a witch fairly quickly, so I hope immortality includes being able to heal quickly after injury or something.
a_statistician , cottonbro studio / pexels Report
Hell nah. Word will definitely get around about my immortality and then I’ll just be subjected all sorts of s**t (torture, experimentation, etc). There’s a show about a similar concept called Ajin.
lordthundy , Min An / pexels Report
People who say they’d get bored with immortality have no imagination.
Careful-Swimmer-2658 , cottonbro studio / pexels Report
Get early shares in apple, back then it’s just the fruit
Ok_Satisfaction_6680 , Elizabeth Tr. Armstrong / pexels Report
Wait 3000 years to see my boyfriend get born, and then try to make his childhood happier somehow.
floppy-jumper , Kristina Paukshtite / pexels Report
F**k yes I would accept this. But I’d research where not to be first. Like not getting buried in an Earthquake or in Pompeii in 79 AD
HankSteakfist , Pixabay / pexels Report
Probably lament wiping out the human species due to latent diseases that my immune system keeps in check, but ancient humans wouldn’t survive.
zynix , Jonathan Borba / pexels Report
3000 years? I’d get my hands on as much iron, charcoal & copper as possible. I’d build a rudimentary lathe. I’d be the first man to invent mathematics. I’d be the first man to invent magnetism & electricity. I’d be the first to construct a battery (lead & sulphuric acid like a car battery) Before the birth of Christ I’d have given my countrymen the equivalent of 1920’s technology. Before the birth of Alexander the great, we’d have reddit.
person1873 , Pixabay / pexels Report
If I can take my wife with me, yes.
Important-Emotion-85 , Jeremy Wong / pexels Report
Oh God… I would try to divert the catalyst for the Crusades thing. I would be one of those opinionated “witches” who would be burned for coordinating with Devils because I like to read.
No-Championship21 , Tima Miroshnichenko / pexels Report
Well, I’d probably spend the rest of my life apologizing for causing the Bronze Age collapse.
MyMelancholyBaby , Daznaempoveche / Wikipedia Report
3000 years back as An Australian would get pretty s****y. There wasn’t a land bridge back then to meander up towards more interesting lands (like Europe, Asia and the Middle East). Id be stuck with the (not megafauna they were extinct but there were cool endemic species that aren’t around today) and indigenous Australians. As a white dude I’m not sure how that would go… But if I could get sent back to somewhere in Europe, maybe… if this is the (can’t die at all) immortality and not the (just won’t age) immortality
CaptainYumYum12 , Ethan Brooke / pexels Report
Try not to be burnt at the stake
CaptainAlexy , Oussama Elhaidi / pexels Report
It’s not a cost, why do you say it is. It’s a bonus. With all my present day knowledge i would become a king and rule the globe. Humanity would advance 2-3 times faster, if not even more.
EmployerEfficient141 , Mike Bird / pexels Report
I have absolutely no desire to be immortal, f**k that.
tc6x6 , Jonathon Burton / pexels Report
F**k no. Who would want that? A eternity of seeing your loved ones dying.
xlouiex , Meruyert Gonullu / pexels Report
Yes, I’d accept. I’d use the knowledge from the future to help advance societies, promote peace, and maybe sneak in some “inventions” of my own.
Rondevo_official , fauxels / pexels Report
Like immortality and Im still young? Yeah why not, I would travel with my knowledge to every major event, or at least try.
K4T4N4B0Y , Vinta Supply Co. | NYC / pexels Report
Sounds horrible, I’d say hell no
agent-assbutt , Monstera Production / pexels Report
Not sure it would be all that fun as you’d be roughing it comparatively to what we’re used to for a good 2,950 of those years.
EasyChipmunk3702 , Andrew Neel / pexels Report
I’ll never understand people who don’t want immortality lol. I’d do anything to live forever. Time is the greatest b***h of them all.
Additional_Air8420 Report
Only if I’m also invulnerable and don’t have to worry about starving or freezing to death or being stabbed
Thylocine Report
Holy c**p, so you get to not only be immortal but you get to start this immortality in antiquity? You go back with all your knowledge of past events, able to build wealth and surf the flow of time? Use your knowledge to maximize the potential of your family tree as you build your way into the future and then when you meet the present you finally can bring your original family into the wealth and prosperity you’ve built for 3,000 years? Hm. Let me think. 🤔
GlobalNuclearWar Report
What the f**k no? Immortality itself is already bad enough, like I’d want to be floating in space for several Septillion years after the sun expands. Living thru 3000 years of s****y society with less advanced technology and no way to communicate does not help the case here
Only_Back_2287 , KATRIN BOLOVTSOVA / pexels Report
Minimalphilia , Diego Rezende / pexels Report
I’m not sure the 3000 years is significant. If you were made immortal today, eventually, this date would be 3000 years in the past. Does time have any importance to an immortal? And this is ignoring the usual questions regarding invulnerability, aging vs non-aging, etc.
ImranRashid Report
This is basically one of my fall asleep fast fantasies. Altho i usually get to pick one other superpower besides immortallity. Anyways, id force the netherlands into existance 2 millenia early.
satanic_black_metal_ Report
Yes, definitely. Go back to ancient times, see Christ, watch the Roman Empire fall, witness the French Revolution, opening of Brooklyn bridge, do what I can to help the allies in WWII and help save as many people that I can.
Live-Somewhere-8149 Report
I always loved the idea of being immortal unfathomably old and revealing it to someone in a very cold way. One of my favorite Show scenes of all time was in Supernatural where they met the Alpha Vampire, the father of all vampires and to explain just how old he was he told them “When your kind was first huddled around the fire, I was the thing in the dark.” Or when Dean meets Death and asks him how old is he compared to God and he says “It’s been so long, neither of us can remember but in the end, I’ll take him too.”
aTerryBear Report
Both immortality and being sent back 3000 years are curses, why the hell would I take it?
Science-done-right Report
I would. Learn EVERYTHING. Create the world in my image.
Globaltensiles Report
In the Netflix adaptation of The Sandman - which is really good by the way - Dream grants a dude the wish to be immortal. The guy lives hundreds of lives, some good, some bad, some awful, but in the end doesn’t regret his decision because life moves on. Assuming ‘immortal’ includes being impervious to injury/ sickness/ etc then… yeah? Going that far back you’d be considered a deity for surviving fatal occurances. In the modern day you wouldn’t but you could have a sick YT channel.
zackdaniels93 , Nina Uhlikova / pexels Report
Why would anyone want to be immortal? When you turn past 200 you’re probably gonna be bored out of your life
No-Anything-3323 , Andrea Piacquadio / pexels Report
I would never accept this
billy_loomis_2212 Report
If I can look 21 not be affected by sickness I’ll crack at it
Clear-Swimming8245 Report
Immortality is a curse. If you think about it, maybe a psychopath/sociopath might be the only ones who’ll get to enjoy it in the long run.
JealousSoup8 Report
Become a living deity.
Wyzelle , Rahul Genie / pexels Report
Immortality is the name of the baby given to you so I’ll pass !
DarkMagician-999 Report
Well, if I could manage it, the Bible would be different.
Limp_Distribution Report
Yes. Create chaos and be known as the oracle.
Shaqtacious Report
I’m given immortality and I get to go back knowing what I know? B***h I’ll be a god
Stonewall30NY Report
I would accept
anon Report
Definitely. Immortal going forward has no appeal to me, but to potentially right the wrongs of history would be pretty awesome. I’ll knock the s**t out of the Vikings and Irish. Build up the borders around the coasts of England, create the long bow sooner to protect from further invasions. Possibly make good relations with Iceland and get some ice on the go to bring up fishing trade and what not. Then after that, avoid America but take Canada. Make them all nice but stabby and build up defenses once again. Or do I scrap England completely. Start with Russia, got all the natural resources you could want from a land. Hmmm choices, choices.
anon , Andrew Neel / pexels Report
Yep. Then I could snuff out Christianity and Islamic religions.
SomeSamples , Gabriel Manjarres / pexels Report
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