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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

[fellcat.livejournal.com]

Living forever would drive me even more nuts than I already am. I don't think that I am sane enough or responsible enough to become a parent. I am not prepared to give up the freedom that I now have in order to have children. However I am responsible enough to realise this before I get pregnant, and can so avoid pregnancy.