Re: You Are In A Groundhog Day Scenario

On Wed, 14 May 2008 16:32:03 +1000, "John" <john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Reminds me of a similar question I once thought of. Say you were told you

>could be given bodily immortality at any point just by asking. The thing
is, 
>your body will stay *exactly* the same as how it is at that point. Same 
>haircut, same minor complaints, same problems. If you have a small cancer

>you didn't know about, it'll stay but it will never get bigger or
smaller. 
>If you develop an itch as you step into the immortalising machine, you'll

>have that itch forever.
>
>What do you do? Work out for 6 months? Get lasik? Risk your whatever
medical 
>conditions you have now gettting worse?

The unlikely choice made a very nice Hugo Winning story by Robert
Block.   Of course the choice was offered by the devil.