What would you do If presented this opportunity ?

@elitess (5070)
Ipswich, England
November 8, 2008 5:36am CST
Would you approve to never have children if someone offered you the chance to live twice as much ? Let's say they invent a magic pill that offers immunity to all known diseases and doubles your life span but would make you sterile, what would you do?
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@riyasam (16556)
• India
8 Nov 08
i would not give up the pleasure of being a mother by any means.but then it would alsodepend on my partner......................
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@elitess (5070)
• Ipswich, England
8 Nov 08
I think that you are right, you should consult him before making a choice in this matter as you are the most implicated in the outcome of this sort of deal.
@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
20 Nov 08
Well, since I can't have kids it wouldn't be much of a choice for me. I'd take the pill. If I was able to have kids, then I probably wouldn't. Besides you'd also have to look at the side of the coin that if you take the pill you may live twice as long but you'd have to watch those you love die... [b]~~AT PEACE WITHIN~~ **STAND STRONG AND TRUST IN GOD**[/b]
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@bjcyrix (6901)
• Philippines
14 Nov 08
Heya, I really wouldnt want to live forever. Its nice and all to have all the time in the world to fully explore it but after that what then? Another thing is that if I get to live forever Id see all of my loved ones perish one by one if they didnt choose to take the pill as well. We'd all get tired of each other and so new life is always a blessing. I would love it if I had extra time to do all the things that I wanted to do but all good things must definitely come to an end.
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8 Nov 08
Hi elitess, As I am childless women, I would give anything to have had children so I don't need a a pill and I won't live twice as much, I think people who have children do live twith their childrenwice as much because they have a busy lives with their children and thy are so blessed and I have nothing. Tamara
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@coffeegurl (1467)
• United States
9 Nov 08
That is a hard question,but not difficult to answer. I'm 37 and have never had children. My boyfriend is infertile. I have no plans for children.
@sati123 (184)
11 Nov 08
that is a very hypothetical question, well as for me I have never lived with a child before but I think I would pass on that opportunity, what is the sense of living that long when all things you know or have lived for are gone? friends? you outlived them all.. family? you have none, so what is the sense?
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@James72 (26790)
• Australia
8 Nov 08
I would not take the magic pill. It is not so much the children aspect but more that I would not wish to live twice as long as anyone else because I would have to suffer having to see my friends and family die all around me while I continued to live on for longer than any of them!
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@May2008 (179)
• China
8 Nov 08
I can feel the pleasure of a mother though now it hasn't come to my life. When women gather together, their topic is probably their children. At least it is true in our country. Whenever you chat with a mother, you can see the proud expression she carrys. To live without one's own child is somewhat imperfect. I will choose to be a mother and to enjoy a mother's thorns and roses. That is the real life.
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• Bahrain
8 Nov 08
I think I would, I'm not much interested in becoming a mommy in the first place and don't have anyone am gonna miss if they die before me :P
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• China
8 Nov 08
No, absolutely not. I want to be a mother someday, and I will not give up this thought for any reason. I do not think that is the only chance I can get, matbe there is another better one waiting for me. So that is not a problem for me.
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