Wednesday, April 23, 2025

If I ever get cancer, I'LL REFUSE ALL CHEMO. Even though I'll happily submit to experimental clinical trials, due to believing in the Quantum Immortality theory, I'll just wake up from a nightmare of having cancer, in a parallel universe, when I die from cancer in this one.

I'd know my quantum gamble worked if upon waking up cancer-free in a parallel universe, I found out Kamala Harris is President.

So I'll happily die of cancer in this universe if it means I'll escape Trump's rule by getting transported to a parallel universe upon my death, to a universe where Kamala is President.

Ask your favorite AI LLM (ChatGPT, Google Gemini, et al.) "How would you explain quantum immortality to a(n) (nth) grader?" With nth being the grade level at which you wish to comprehend the explanation.

Basically, everyone's immortal in that they transport to and wake up in a parallel universe where circumstances are different once they die in this universe. So all your dearly-departed loved ones who died of cancer are alive and better in a parallel universe, hopefully where Kamala is President.

So I'll happily refuse chemo if that means I'll eventually get to escape living under Trump this way.

Crossposts: r/Cancer, r/Chemotherapy, r/Rants

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[–]VaderXXV 34 points 5 months ago

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[–]Patient-Garlic8860 12 points 5 months ago

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[–]TheresJustNoMoney[S] -2 points 5 months ago

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[–]MrRedlegs1992 29 points 5 months ago

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[–]philosopher_isstoned 9 points 5 months ago

I don't think I'm supposed to take this seriously but I'm gonna comment anyway. If quantum immortality was true we have no idea exactly how it works, there seems to be continuity in all known realities so you'd probably be limited to universes where you already had cancer. Do your memories get wiped too or are you breaking that universe by stealing their body? If you CAN go back before cancer, (as opposed to a directly adjacent universe where all but the final death is the same) how how do you know this hasn't already happened to what you perceive as you now?

If QI lets you jump further back then you're just envisioning some horrific time loop existence of eventually getting cancer again and dying over and over, so like, bleak dude. Chemo works when it works.

I think what you believe in is an eternal return if sorts, but not one with any purposeful goal, you're just trying to avoid your own suffering by taking paths with less pain. However, in doing so you're ensuring the larger phenomenon (eternal existence) isn't resolved at all, dooming yourself to repeating a range of events related to the life you now live, likely following the prior patterns that avoided suffering. For the millionth, billionth, or possibly infinitieth time.

Or maybe I'm overthinking it, I guess I'll find out when I die (possibly for the second or third or fiftieth time 🤷).

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[–][deleted] 6 points 5 months ago

In my theory it's working this way: He is not observing any universe in which he would die. In example: He isn't able to survive a specific illness in a specific universe/timeline he won't experience it. Let's say he gets cancer: He will survive not by time jumping but by treatment. He will change into another universe before he dies. Not the moment of death is the trigger but the decision that led to his death.

I will make an example: You wake up, drive to work but on the way you get into an accident and die. Most common thinking is you will change into a universe in that you miraculously survive but the truth is you will switch into one in which you forgot your keys and avoid the accident. Or you oversleep and avoid it. Or the other driver is never born. Anything you can't directly observe is possibly. You can't even trust your own memory cause timeline switching is switching your body and your memories too.

Switching in the last moment can only happen if your decision which leads to your death is the moment before your actual death.

That is my take

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[–]r00t3294 18 points 5 months ago

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[–]BaseNice3520 4 points 5 months ago

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[–]An_thon_ny 17 points 5 months ago

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[–]moogabuser 3 points 5 months ago

Got my upvote, bud.

I get that cancer is bad and “we should be doing everything we can to celebrate life/keep living”…etc…but that’s for us to learn on our own time and not be judged by QI prigs who think they know more than others.

I already decided that when I get cancer (I live in America: it’s pretty much a certainty), I’m not going to pay the system most of what I’ve made in my lifetime to maybe get it taken care of so I have to put up with even more dumbassery with the microscopic chance that when I do finally get to die, my next iteration MIGHT be better off.

We live in a timeline where dipshits like Trump can be elected President…let alone given any kind of platform. This is not a timeline to be celebrated or perpetuated.

Cheers to you, and may we share/suffer/meet in whatever next timeline we deserve.