Rebekah George Assignment 6

1. What is your favorite moral dilemma? Which side would you choose and why?

2. What would you do if you were truly the last person on earth? Is everything still up and running and everyone just mysteriously vanished or is a Fallout-esque wasteland?  

3. If you worked/lived in a company/country that was doing something terrible and you were, without a doubt, one of its greatest employees/citizens would you oust them or climb the latter to the top instead?   

If you met someone that you were sure was your soulmate, and they were immortal because their family drank from the fountain of youth without knowing it, would you drink too so as to become immortal? If you did, then everyone you know would eventually grow old and die. You would never see them again. If you didn’t, you would condemn your soulmate to an eternity of loneliness.

If I were put in this situation, there is no doubt in my mind that I would choose to be immortal. First of all, that would be super adorable. I would get to be with my one true love for all of time, and we would have the opportunity to do so many cute things. Furthermore, his family is immortal, so it’s not like we’re completely alone. People die. If I am alive for the span of the normal human life, I’m going to see a lot of people I love die anyway. I mean, being immortal “I’ll never see you again” really is never, but I think that I’d probably get over it eventually. That sounds ridiculously cold, I’m sure, but I’d always have my one true love with me.

There are, however, some questions that I have about this dilemma. The main one would have to be “what does this immortality entail?” Because, if it’s a Captain Jack Harkness kind of immortal, I’m skeptical. I don’t ever want to be just some giant floating head. Then again, he did just randomly decide to die…so, I don’t really know if he was in fact immortal. It’s all very confusing, really. I want to be young and awesome for all of eternity. I want to stop aging entirely as soon as I make this decision. Actually, the girl in the newest season of Doctor Who whose name I’ve forgotten is a perfect example. I don’t, however, want a human-sized memory. I kind of want to just be the same, forever. Another question I have is must I eat and drink? I mean, theoretically, the answer should be no. The same goes for breathing. We could totally build Atlantis. Would we be able to feel pain? It would be cool if the answer to that question is no because then I could try that one Tumblr post about cutting off my foot and swinging at another person (am I hitting or kicking you?).  My final question about this is would our children also be immortal? If not, that’s cool because I don’t want children, anyway. But, if yes, we can have an immortal empire; that would be cool too.