Would you want to be a vampire like Eli?

[Chimp]

If I'm not completely mistaken and mix this up with something else... In the novel, Eli tells Oskar (or thinks?) that he's the first friend Eli's had for 200 years. 200 years of killing people and having no real friends to talk to. Now that's pretty damn lonely. Let that sink in before making a choice here. What's the point of being immortal if it sucks?

[TΛPETRVE]

We should not forget that Eli is not only a vampire, but a 12-year-old child, born in the late 18th century. It's quite hard for an essentially homeless kid to find friends in those times - not very different from a gypsy, after all. Even as a grownup vampire he would have had a hard time, but probably still easier than as a child.

[cmfireflies]

Wow, going by Eli's age in the book, he would be older than the UNITED STATES if he is still alive today. That kinda puts things in perspective.

[TΛPETRVE]

Eli was apparently born in 1770, 4 years before the declaration of independence. Hmm, maybe Eli, erm, Abby will be British in the remake .

[intrige]

It Elis hair grows, yes, I woul like ti be a vamire it I got the offer. I am young, and I am a girl. I could pass as a poor teenage girl. But also a young adolt. Because most of the people I work with assume me to be older than I am. XD I think it Eli(or a same type of vampire) came around this year. I would take it:) But though, I would have to leave friends and family behind. And never see the sun for real again..

[WhiteBackground]

At age twelve, being like I was, I would jump all too happily on the opportunity.
Today I realize all too well that immortality is an unparalleled curse all by itself.

There is a movie I've seen recently, made in Russia, called "Dark World". There a girl becomes a witch to gain powers and to battle an evil wizard, but she loses all her friends and her loved one as a result. Grieving, she than has a conversation with the Witch Queen, where the Queen says: "You still think like a human. If you would think like a witch, things would become easier for you. You became one of us, but you must know this - we live for hundreds and thousands of years, and all the while there are regular people around us. We see as they are born and die, and born again, while we remain in our everlasting lonelyness. Love breaks our hearts - there is nothing more terrible than to fall in love with a human and outlive your love. You feel it now, I know. And you will feel it again, hundreds of times more, until you learn to see the world as witches do - with neither grief nor hope, only with cold sadness. Isn't that what you wanted?"

Well, is that what anyone here really wants?

[God of Vampires]

I think everyone here knows my standpoint on this by now. Sure, being a vampire can be terrible, especially if you are Eli . To desire a life like Eli, you have to be a complete masochist. Still, I would trade life with Eli in a second. Mostly because of the relation Eli and Oskar shares, I would believe that to share a miserable life with your soulmate is still better than live like a king alone . I am jealous of them, despite having all I ever wished for in material goods, I would trade this all in for just a taste of the divinity that is their love, Eli do not know how lucky she really is . As for becoming a vampire, I would do it for one simple reason. I want no part in the evil mankind have commited over the years, our arrogance and hypocrisy have gone too far. I would take the first opportunity to denounce my humanity, and I would eternity, in misery if I have to, trying to correct the mistakes made by mankind and maybe save this world from certain doom. Despite, I have dreamt of being a vampire since early childhood, and after watching and reading LTROI, it has been proved that nothing can talk me out of that.

[sauvin]

I think everyone here knows my standpoint on this by now. Sure, being a vampire can be terrible, especially if you are Eli . To desire a life like Eli, you have to be a complete masochist. Still, I would trade life with Eli in a second. Mostly because of the relation Eli and Oskar shares, I would believe that to share a miserable life with your soulmate is still better than live like a king alone . I am jealous of them, despite having all I ever wished for in material goods, I would trade this all in for just a taste of the divinity that is their love, Eli do not know how lucky she really is . As for becoming a vampire, I would do it for one simple reason. I want no part in the evil mankind have commited over the years, our arrogance and hypocrisy have gone too far. I would take the first opportunity to denounce my humanity, and I would eternity, in misery if I have to, trying to correct the mistakes made by mankind and maybe save this world from certain doom. Despite, I have dreamt of being a vampire since early childhood, and after watching and reading LTROI, it has been proved that nothing can talk me out of that.

You would correct us by killing us?

[cmfireflies]

you don't give humanity enough credit GoV. We're way too good at killing things to make life as a vampire anywhere close to eternity. I see Eli turning Oskar as a sort of suicide pact. No more living with pedophiles, nom a few people, have fun, and wait for the sun when the police inevitably arrive. Good thing JAL is more optimistic.

It's hard isn't it? I mean I think every little kid as they are growing up looks at the world and thinks that life would be so much better when people would just act rationally and stop sabotaging each other. And when we grow up, we see that we're the ones doing the same things and making the same problems.

At least people are trying.

[ykeleven]

This is a tough one.

What is most appealing about being a vampire would be near immortality. I would like to live to be... oh.. about 1,000 years old? Would we create our own artificial intelligent God by than? Would we have achieved immortality through nanotechnology? Is it possible to travel to stars at all? How would society and humanity itself change over the coming millennium?

I have lots of questions that I want answers to. Yes. Do I want to leave those that I love behind and live a life of solitude? My love life doesn't seem to last that long. Few years and than it seems to explode for one reason or another. So immortality wouldn't be that different in terms of love life. I would miss friends and family. Still friends drift apart. People move around and priorities change. Again, I could accept the lose of friends through out lifetime. That leaves family. Yes. That would be very sad. I would lose connection with them in few decades. That's tough.

As far as murdering people to live... Unless I can raid the maximum security prison and pick off the murderers and rapists, I would have tough time justifying killing innocent people so I can live. Assuming that there is no other way (ie, blood drive, and so forth) to get blood other than murder... I will pass on being a vampire like Eli.