You are offered biological immortality — you will not age or die of natural causes. You can still be killed in accidents. Your mind will remain clear and your body healthy indefinitely. Everyone you know will still die. You will watch civilisations, languages, and everything familiar to you disappear over centuries. The offer is irreversible. You have 24 hours to decide.
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You are offered biological immortality — you will not age or die of natural causes. You can still be killed in accidents. Your mind will remain clear and your body healthy indefinitely. Everyone you know will still die. You will watch civilisations, languages, and everything familiar to you disappear over centuries. The offer is irreversible. You have 24 hours to decide.

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41% chose "Accept — I want to see everything" and 59% chose "Decline — mortality is part of what makes life meaningful". Philosophers have long argued whether immortality would be desirable or even coherent. Bernard Williams argued that immortality would inevitably lead to tedium — that the 'categorical desires' (goals and projects) that give life meaning depend on the finite structure of a life. Others, like John Martin Fischer, disagree: a sufficiently varied and adaptable person could find perpetual meaning. The emotional reality — watching everyone you know die — gives the abstract philosophical debate concrete weight.

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