Weekend Writing #1:

Prompt 7: Immortality

Many people do think that having immortality would be the best thing ever. You get to live forever and see how our technology changes as time passes. But people are only scratching the surface of what immortality would give us. First, you have to think of how we get immortality. Does it stop the growth of your body and keeps you looking young? Does it just keep us from dying of old age? The brew probably will not keep us alive if we catch a fatal sickness or if our vitals are damaged to the point where it would kill a normal person. If, it gave us immediate regeneration and an invincible immune system, then it would be one of the best things ever. But you also have to think about those who cannot afford to buy the immortality potion. Of course people would want to put a price on the potion. The potion would most likely be priced at a point where only rich people could buy it. That means that all of those republicans will be immortal, hogging all of the money to themselves. And we, those who cannot afford the elixir, will have to deal with living and dying over and over again. Another downside to the elixir is that the world will over populate. Today, the number of people on the earth is increasing at around 1 every 7 seconds. That ratio also accounts for the number of people who are dying every so often. With people not dying, the world will populate much faster and we will have to start expanding both into the air and into the ground. Until, of course, we get interplanetary travel perfected and we can jump to inhabitable planets without having to spend generations of people on a spaceship in order to just get to a habitable planet. Also, there will be people who will want to steal the formula. Like in the harry potter book, 1“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” Voldemort went and tried to steal the Sorcerer’s Stone, a stone that could create an elixir that would make someone immortal as long as they continuously drink the elixir.1 Bad people will target the formula and you or other people will be put in danger. And although immortality protects against old age, stab wounds and the like would kill us. Just think about what should be done if you were to invent immortality.

Bibliography

Rowling, J. K., and GrandPré Mary. Harry Potter And the Sorcerer’s Stone. Print.

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