Wow, This crazy snail question poses an outrageous scenario and this answer is equally insane (but awesome). So basically this random writing prompt states that you will get a million dollars and become immortal but you will die if the snail touches you. To complicate things the snail always knows where you are and will slowly crawl towards you forever. Moral quandaries of imprisoning a super intelligent snail for all eternity aside, this response is absolute genius:
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But what if after a time you *want* to die? It’s easy enough to stay on islands and such to keep the snail away but humans may well find immortality trying enough, given enough time.
That snail may be your friend and your salvation, in a century or three.
Honestly, if the snail is super intelligent, why not just talk with it, set it up with a snail paradise, keep all your options open?
Its a snail. Aside from intelligence, it has no powers. And, knowing myself, I’m sure I’m going to want to die at some point.
I put it in a triple reinforced bulletproof glass cube and keep it at home. As long as only I know it’s purpose it has no value to anyone else. Just keep a good eye on it, and break glass in case of emergency.
So, I know this is an old thread but it popped up as a link at the bottom of one of your others, and it caught my eye because I have a teenager who a) loves snails and b) has been absolutely clear in the past that they would hate the idea of living forever, being stuck with existence, being unable to die. So I am fairly sure that their answer will be some version of ‘Go pick the snail up because snails are CUUUUUUTE’ and because this will mean that they will a) be free of immortality and b) get to touch a snail in the last moment of their life so, really, win-win.