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[vyvyanx]

I forgot to mention that after my golem/Gollum pseudopoll, some anonymous kind person bestowed a paid account upon me. I take this as an encouragement to post more polls! - so here is one on an issue I remember discussing with some people on Usenet several years ago:

[Poll #331385]
Update To clarify, you can't decide to have children first and take the drug later - assume that the government won't give the drug to anyone who has children, or that the drug won't actually work if you've have children. If you answered "Something else" for some different reason, please let me know in a comment what the reason is!

No offence is intended by this poll towards anyone who has, is about to have or wants to have children - it's just idle curiosity about whether people would rather have personal immortality or children (sometimes described as providing a form of immortality through genetic/cultural transmission).

Comments

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

No, you can't have kids and then take the drug; the scenario doesn't work like that! (I originally put an extra bit in the question to this effect, but it was getting long and complicated anyway!) If you decide to have children at all, you will never be able to take the drug - imagine that either the government won't allow it to be given to people who have children, or the drug won't work if you've already had children. I wanted to know whether people would rather live forever or have children - not both!

[davefish.livejournal.com]

I think that I would probably go to the side of not having kids. I'd just have to be 'Mad uncle Dave to some of my friends kids :)