Would you chose eternal life
Would you become a vampire if you had the opportunity, given that the daylight is not fatal to you and no organisation is chasing you.
Excuse my English please, not a native speaker.
Don't see why not
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In a heartbeat. Think about how much you could learn over the centuries, and the places you could go...and all the people you could meet. Money would not have to be an issue. Your time would literally be your own.
shareIn a heartbeat. Think about how much you could learn over the centuries, and the places you could go...and all the people you could meet. Money would not have to be an issue. Your time would literally be your own.
^THIS
however a quote from the "tithonicus" episode of x-files comes to mind
Dana Scully: I think you're wrong. How can you have too much life? There's too much to learn, to experience.
Alfred Fellig: Seventy-five years is enough. Take my word for it. You live forever, sooner or later, you start to think about the big thing you're missing and that everybody else gets to find out about but you.
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Hell yes
shareAbsolutely, as long as I was not alone. Maybe because I have always had health issues- but living a "life" with no sickness or pain is greatly tempting!
shareIs no-one who answered "Yes" concerned about the fact that you have to drink blood for eternity to survive?
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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again.
It would entirely depend on the age I was when offered it. In the Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, the girl was a prepubescent condemned to life as a child. Years of experience to be contained in a child's body would be torture. In this film the younger girl is still attending school - Lordy 10 yrs or so of that was more than enough. And what about I ones 80's - I think not.
I suspect we only value life because we know we are going to die. Life is precious to us because our lives are short. We are fragile creatures.
Something tells me the days would start to become an endless string of intolerable sameness after a few centuries. Someone brought up Ann Rice, I thought she covered that aspect very well. Older vampires would eventually just grow tired of living and walk out into the sunlight. Only the rare few could maintain a desire to live after hundreds of years.
Would probably be more like Let Me In where you eventually can't remember your birthday or what your parents and friends looked like. An immense sadness might overtake you. After 200 years a year would fly by and anyone you did happen to meet would grow old right before your eyes. You would have less and less in common with them every day as they changed and you did not.
No. Certainly not by this film's methods. That weird cave, the creepy birds, the whole thing...no. There's something "not right" about that. It looks like selling your soul off, and immortality isn't worth the consequences that crafting a pact with a dark god would bring.
At the very least, I would need to learn more about the spirits that pull the strings before making a decision. Even then...an eternity of murdering people and drinking their blood to stay alive? No, thanks.