r/hypotheticalsituation • u/CryptographerHot6198 • 4d ago

You immediately become immortal.

And the mysterious figure who gives you immortality instructs you that forever every year you remain immortal you will be given $100. And then immediately whatever you choose, you’ll be reverted back in time to when you obtained immortality, no memory of the experience, but all the money is in your bank account. How many years are you gonna do it for, and what would you do with the money afterword?

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u/foxhill_matt 4d ago

Zero years. Immortality would be horrific.

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u/archibaldplum 4d ago

True immortality, watching humanity going extinct and the sun burning out, sure, that'd be hellish. The first few thousand years, though, seeing how society develops, and then painlessly resetting when it gets to be too much, that I think I'd probably quite enjoy. Plus, I'd probably be over my early retirement threshold when I got back, so returning to a noticeably better life than the one I left.

Of course, there is the potential horror if you wake up the next day and discover you've only actually gotten $300 for the experience, and you then spent the next couple of years wondering what kind of horror is coming in 2028.

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u/greywoode 4d ago

You missed the part where he added you'd have no memory of your time being immortal so rather than wondering what happened in 2028 you'd be losing sleep wondering wtf the money came from

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u/archibaldplum 4d ago

Ah, I read that as forgetting everything which happened when you were immortal, but remembering the deal and having agreed to it.