You have the ability to kill any person by touching them for 15 seconds (uninterrupted), how do you use this power? (You get to choose the timing of death and cause of death)

DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 2 days ago

You have the ability to kill any person by touching them for 15 seconds (uninterrupted), how do you use this power? (You get to choose the timing of death and cause of death)

dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 2 days ago

I think you’re missing something.

If someone has (say) stomach cancer, and you make them live another decade rather than the six months they have, that’s a decade of cancer eating them from inside, of painful, expensive treatments to keep it at bay enough that they can function, a decade of misery. No one in their right mind would accept such a “gift.”

Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 2 days ago

I guess people in that much pain would want to die fairly soon but, perhaps, after they’d had enough time to sort their affairs and say goodbye to their loved ones. And they’d be able to die ‘peacefully in their sleep’.