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.
Nice try FBI and CIA.
Wvery woman whos is NOT prostitute.
It is not because I have anything against women, or any particular love of prostitutes, i just think it would be hillarious to watch the consequences of a world with a 100:1 male:female ratio where the few remaining women are prostitutes.
would we get a mateiarchal society? Would dudes suddenly all go super gay? would a bunch more dudes become women? Would the prostitutes keep prostituting or would they marry the wealthiest men on earth? would the men annihilate whats left of the human race in nuclear frustration? what would all the non prostitutes do when eventually the pattern emerged and people figured out ehat was going on?
while i was at it i giess id kill all the male prositutes to see what happaned. or the complete inverse of that. either or works.
“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.
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.
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 might be meet and greeting a lot of cops.
Does our choosing a cause of death preclude them from dying of other causes? Because you could potentially do some wild stuff to postpone death of loved ones by, for example, deciding they’ll die 60 years in the future of old age.
And how much control do you have around the circumstances surrounding their death? Could I specify “dies of heart attack brought on by shock of working out the key to practical cold fusion on paper” or “head trauma due to fall while adjusting to lower gravity in main living area of self-sustaining mars colony” to force us forward in technology and science?
Because that’s basically what I’d do.
One consideration is: is there an “evil genie / monkey’s paw” caveat to this? Like, maybe someone’s death is postponed, but they are in terrible agony every second until then. Or maybe they die on Mars, but a dictator destroys Earth in the process of getting us there.
That might make a half-decent sci-fi story. Like: someone gains this capability, but they have a notion that there’s an evil-genie caveat to it. So they try to advance science, but just a little bit at a time; basically they are experimenting to make sure there’s no such caveat (and to get around it, if there is.) However, they are leaving a trail of the dead. And at the end, it turns that while no individual death/accomplishment had a monkeys-paw-like side-effect, all of the deaths combined resulted in a terrible downside.
I can choose the timing of death? Ok, I touch my family and friends and keep them all alive for the next 70 years.
Offer my services to people suffering in countries where voluntary euthanasia is still illegal?
Meet and greet with the president of the US.
