Its like death note, but instead of names and face, you have to touch them.
So you can’t just simply google names of dictators (that would be a very boring c/AskLemmy thread), gotta be creative with this ability.
Its like death note, but instead of names and face, you have to touch them.
So you can’t just simply google names of dictators (that would be a very boring c/AskLemmy thread), gotta be creative with this ability.
“For $1000 I will ensure you live as long as you want and die in the manner of your choosing.”
After you’ve helped a couple of terminal cancer patients cheat death for a few years, word will spread.
At fifteen seconds I could comfortably do one a minute for an hour or so a day and rake in $60k.
Woah nice! You flipped it from being a killing power to being a life saving power! Very cool!
On the flip side, I don’t think I’ve ever read anything so American as the idea that someone would take mastery over the forces of life and death itself and just use it to make money…
Not just for money, that’s a hell of a deal for $1000. The other person is getting their money’s worth and more.
I’m confused. It doesn’t say you would prolong someone’s life if you fail to touch them for the duration of 15 seconds. If someone is already set to die without you touching them, why is it that you touching them would save them?
OP is saying that they would probably initially find takers in the form of terminal patients seeking euthanasia. But since the question asker stated that you can choose the timing and cause of death, then it follows that you can cause anyone to live as long as (naturally) possible. Once word got out, you could make a killing guaranteeing long lives.
It said they were helping cheat death for a few years, so not a euthanasia take
@cattywampas@midwest.social is correct, though, offering the euthenasia service is an even better option to bring peace to those who seek it while getting the word out that I have this ability.
I hadn’t considered going straight for euthenasia gigs but that’s an excellent suggestion!
And you’re right, it says in the question I can choose the time of their death so, yes, according to that I can gift virtual immortality.
theoretically since you are also extending the life unnaturally anyways, even if its just a lifespan why not make them live multiple lifespans, or near biological immortal(but not immune to serious disease)
I think you’re missing something.
If someone has (say) stomach cancer, and you make them live another decade rather than the six months they have, that’s a decade of cancer eating them from inside, of painful, expensive treatments to keep it at bay enough that they can function, a decade of misery. No one in their right mind would accept such a “gift.”
I guess people in that much pain would want to die fairly soon but, perhaps, after they’d had enough time to sort their affairs and say goodbye to their loved ones. And they’d be able to die ‘peacefully in their sleep’.