I'm not to sort of guy to easily give up his own life, but it's just the outrageous scale of the difference it would make that makes it hard for me to compute that anyone wouldn't.
I'm sure you could easily set it up so it wouldn't be used nefariously. A corporation can't just wade in and take a dead body without permission from the person's will or their surviving relatives. I'd leave it in my will that my body should only be used in a certain way by certain people, and I'd kill myself inside the research centre I thought would do the best job of getting it out of me. I might even get an international charity to help me, dispersing the drug to different countries in the most efficient and widely accessible way possible, bypassing governments and companies if necessary.
I'd definitely talk to the UN and see if some plan could be set up to ease my mind. I have great faith in the scientific community to use my body well. And even if they don't and some big drug company makes a lot of money out of me, it's still a hell of a lot better than having no cure at all.
If it was real life, and it was between me and another person, I'd just kill myself and be done with it. Whether the cure gets out or not is far more important to me than whether I die or someone else. Besides, if I'm the one who dies my name is going to be immortalized as the guy who cured cancer and that's more than consolation enough for me. They might even let me name it. I'd actually quite like to be the one who dies; I can make sure the cure is used in the right way (the stakes are way too high to trust anyone else with that) and I get to have my memory associated with it when I'm gone. I will be in every history book. I will be in the news world wide. Every person alive in the world will know my name. Children for generations will grow up knowing me as the guy who killed himself so millions could live. Even if you didn't give two shits about human life, that would be enough to convince a lot of people.
I actually don't think your name will be immortalized, but maybe the guy who did the autopsy. If I was being known for my actions and I was going to be immortalized then yes I would die as well. But I could easily see myself being forgotten while some guy steals all the credit or hides the cure.
Would you be willing to die for a cure?
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I'm not to sort of guy to easily give up his own life, but it's just the outrageous scale of the difference it would make that makes it hard for me to compute that anyone wouldn't.
I'm sure you could easily set it up so it wouldn't be used nefariously. A corporation can't just wade in and take a dead body without permission from the person's will or their surviving relatives. I'd leave it in my will that my body should only be used in a certain way by certain people, and I'd kill myself inside the research centre I thought would do the best job of getting it out of me. I might even get an international charity to help me, dispersing the drug to different countries in the most efficient and widely accessible way possible, bypassing governments and companies if necessary.
I'd definitely talk to the UN and see if some plan could be set up to ease my mind. I have great faith in the scientific community to use my body well. And even if they don't and some big drug company makes a lot of money out of me, it's still a hell of a lot better than having no cure at all.
If it was real life, and it was between me and another person, I'd just kill myself and be done with it. Whether the cure gets out or not is far more important to me than whether I die or someone else. Besides, if I'm the one who dies my name is going to be immortalized as the guy who cured cancer and that's more than consolation enough for me. They might even let me name it. I'd actually quite like to be the one who dies; I can make sure the cure is used in the right way (the stakes are way too high to trust anyone else with that) and I get to have my memory associated with it when I'm gone. I will be in every history book. I will be in the news world wide. Every person alive in the world will know my name. Children for generations will grow up knowing me as the guy who killed himself so millions could live. Even if you didn't give two shits about human life, that would be enough to convince a lot of people.
And I'd be the first guy to meet aliens :P
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I actually don't think your name will be immortalized, but maybe the guy who did the autopsy. If I was being known for my actions and I was going to be immortalized then yes I would die as well. But I could easily see myself being forgotten while some guy steals all the credit or hides the cure.