Lets say you have brain cancer. The only way to get rid of it is to remove a significant chunk of your brain. It won't change your ability to function, but you as a person. Your personality, your likes, your dislikes, your memories of everyone you know, etc. I.e. You will be a completely different person at the end of it. However, the twist is that it must be done immediately; no waiting. Otherwise you have another 3 years to be you before becoming fertilizer. So. What do you do?

Mind wipe. Aside from me wanting to live, I'm hopeful that erasing my mind will provide better... circumstances. I do hope I stay in the culinary field, though. I love it.

The way I'm looking at it, either way, the person who I am right now will cease to exist so honestly I think I'd rather take my 3 years

But it pays to be prepared. Which is why, if I ever get around to it, I'd write a memoir to myself containing all relevant information along with some white lies that'll make me a better person.

I'd take the wipe. I can probably ask the surgeon to hand me my special notebook once I'm done with the operation. At the very least, I'd return to my infantile 'absorb all stimulus' state as I walk the world with newfound curiosity. (And get killed when I get myself into trouble from naive curiosity)

^ what Guardian said, but instead of special notebook I'd video tape parts of my past the positive side including my family and friends, giving me understandance & confidents of who I am.

Give myself time to recover, knowing the essentials before walking out the building and into the real world.

Did you guys not see the word "immediately"?

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Did you guys not see the word "immediately"?

B-but Envoy, you meant like, immediately after writing my entire life story though right? :rolleyes:
Honestly though, you guys aren't thinking about this enough, this person after the surgery isn't you anymore,
Think of it like this, you have the choice between death in three years or immediately cloning yourself and being killed off right then and there, what seems like the more attractive option?

I'd choose not to do the mind wipe, rather than starting from scratch.
I'd keep on enjoying what I do and leave good memories to this world before I'd turn into a vegetative state.

Like C'mon, 3 years be long enough.

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Did you guys not see the word "immediately"?

It doesn't take that long to say "Surgeon, bring me my notebook after we're done." I'm also assuming that I still have to travel to the hospital, which gives me a little leeway on preparations. Then again, I just realized that I'm in the Philippines.

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B-but Envoy, you meant like, immediately after writing my entire life story though right? :rolleyes:

I intend that the notebook was prepared long beforehand. Just in case.

Honestly though, you guys aren't thinking about this enough, this person after the surgery isn't you anymore,
Think of it like this, you have the choice between death in three years or immediately cloning yourself and being killed off right then and there, what seems like the more attractive option?

Still choosing to give the clone a little "seed" through a memoir.

EDIT: And I'm okay with "dying" at the hands of surgeons over experiencing decay right before my eyes. It's scary for me.

Given that we have to walk out of the medical facility post mind-wipe, we'll be a new person who knows they have three years to live, right?

Damn, then I'll take the three years, god knows what I might become by being an unknown person in this strange world.

This forum is notorious for worming their way out of shit.

When Envoy says immediately, he doesn't need to stress how immediate that is. You should respect the idea of the scenario or it's pointless. This is pretty much like that debate thread about saving the girl or flagging the vehicle; everyone is coming up with these crazy-ass third options that aren't relevant to the question.

Fine then, with no clever shit (and considering my living conditions), I'd take my 3 years and panic haplessly as I try to "go out with a bang" and write a long-ass goodbye note to all the active communities I'm part of. For SP, it would be a huge manuscript of "Things I was planning to do" with a pathetic list of expectations and written storyboards. Then commit suicide 3 months before I hit the critical point where everything crashes down. If the symptoms develop gradually instead of a sudden onset then I'd kill myself earlier. Preferably with high-yield explosives to the head.

inb4 "Yeah, I thought so you pathetic coward." Well shoot me in the foot for cowardice, just don't aim for the part that makes me bleed out and die.

You wouldn't remember those communities, GT. Those three years you live as a new person.

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This forum is notorious for worming their way out of shit.

When Envoy says immediately, he doesn't need to stress how immediate that is. You should respect the idea of the scenario or it's pointless. This is pretty much like that debate thread about saving the girl or flagging the vehicle; everyone is coming up with these crazy-ass third options that aren't relevant to the question.

^This. It's just faggots that are afraid of growing up and committing to something.

I'd take the wipe. Who knows, I might end up being a better person. At least I'd get a new lease on life.