Shut up or shut down?

[Beast]

I'd shut up. I hate talking anyways, 'cause that means someone else has to and I generally don't care for what they say.

Not aging is great and all, but if it's only for a year it won't make much difference =\

[Light Buster]

I would shut down. Just like the LEIGON did in C&C3: Kane's Wrath then come back alive.

[Gizoku]

>.> But then if you chose to be shut down, you wouldn't speak anyways....and you'd also be frozen.
I'd shut down.
I love talking too much >.<

[Eris]

>.> But then if you chose to be shut down, you wouldn't speak anyways....and you'd also be frozen.
I'd shut down.
I love talking too much >.<

People don't seem to realize just how inconvenient not being able to speak at all is in day to day life. Even if you don't yap all day long, what you do say is typically so important that you can't not say it. Hand gestures and notepads really don't compensate very well...

[Manhattan_Project_2000]

Am I still frozen if I have my Greater Ring of Cold Resistance on?

[Eris]

Am I still frozen if I have my Greater Ring of Cold Resistance on?

You wouldn't be frozen, but it wouldn't cure you either.

Oh, and preemptively, the freeze pod is safe, so you won't be decapitated if you are the Highlander.

[Interpreter]

Shut down, of course.Whether the world mourns my disappearance or not.

[DOOM!]

It doesn't make a bit of difference, guys. The balls are inert!

[Diocletian]

I'll shut down. A year is really nothing, and I will miss the coming of Christ and will be left to wander with cockroaches, Bush, and the Chanese.

[Luluko]

People don't seem to realize just how inconvenient not being able to speak at all is in day to day life. Even if you don't yap all day long, what you do say is typically so important that you can't not say it. Hand gestures and notepads really don't compensate very well...

Mute people get by just fine with sign language and writing. Sure it's uncomfortable and dangerous if you get yourself in a situation where you need to scream for help, but hey, sometimes bad things happens and it sucks.

Unless you're refering to the fact that choosing to shut up and having to learn to use hand gestures/get use to writing everything we want to say down might lead us to depression or things like that. If that's the case, breaking the treatment and letting yourself die because of the illness is quite easy.

[Hanamaru Kunikida]

Shut up.....I mean, I don't want be away....alone....for a YEAR!? Nah, could be alright.

[3pleT]

i'd have him freeze me, so i could have all the stuff i'm currently waiting for available for download when i wake up.
also, people would miss me. when people miss you, they're much easier to manipulate.
as a matter of fact, i'd be very glad to skip a year even without that stupid condition.

[Acnologia]

Shut up. I like to know whats going on. Anything can happen in a year, I could wake up and my whole family could be massacred. I don't want to take that chance.

[suzumi]

I would shut up.

It would be a good chance for me to finally learn sign language. ^^ And it's not like I'm going to be mute for the rest of my life.

[Mister_S]

I would shut down, because if you can't talk for a year what's the point? and if you get the year back anyway then ya shut down.

[.Skye]

I'd shut down. I don't like aging anyway.

[Eris]

Mute people get by just fine with sign language and writing. Sure it's uncomfortable and dangerous if you get yourself in a situation where you need to scream for help, but hey, sometimes bad things happens and it sucks.

Unless you're refering to the fact that choosing to shut up and having to learn to use hand gestures/get use to writing everything we want to say down might lead us to depression or things like that. If that's the case, breaking the treatment and letting yourself die because of the illness is quite easy.

I would be horribly inconvenient. Writing is a lot slower than talking, and very few people actually understand sign language (and learning it takes a long time, so long it's probably not worth it if you're only going to be mute for a year.)

But if the doctor tells me he can keep me in that freezer for 20-30 years I would definitely change my mind and pick the freezer.

This is a pretty big gamble. What if it turns out that the world was peaceful and beautiful for the 20-30 years you spent frozen, and just before you were thawed it turned nasty with plague and nuclear winter? You can never go back if you do fastforward into the future.

[Miss Moonlight]

Well, I prefer not to be put in the freezer. As much as stopping the aging process seems tempting, i'd probably just want to wait the year. Sign language could also be an option. That is how alot of people communicate already.

That, or take a nice dry-erase board around with me.

[Igloo Riley]

Thats going to be tough either way, if I shut up I wont be able to do my job either present or as a pilot, if I shut down I fall behind a year but...you did not say that data and information couldn't be fed into the brain to keep the mind up to date on events and any thing else I might need after thawing.

If I can keep up to date I would shut down, if not I am not sure I would have to shut down because either way I am held back so.

[Infinita]

I would shut up for a year. I don't talk much so I don't think it would make a difference. If I shut down for a year, I would just miss more fun times with friends.

[Luluko]

I would be horribly inconvenient. Writing is a lot slower than talking, and very few people actually understand sign language (and learning it takes a long time, so long it's probably not worth it if you're only going to be mute for a year.)

It's true, but it's still a matter of personal opinion and being able to choose between the two options means that we are ready to make sacrifices.

Personally, I'm afraid of shutting down. Freeze myself for a year would mean that my unconscious might run free for being in a "sleeping" state, and I tend to have horrible nightmares. And although time is relative in this (frozen= not feeling the passing of time)... I don't think my mind can take it.

[Brandandy]

I would shut up for a year. It would be nice not to talk for awhile.

[niKopol]

How could any biological functions (as in healing) occur if you're frozen? Unfreeze, you still have the disease, and you missed out on a year of drama and nothing is more head desk worthy than a years worth of drama and no way to tell your yammering family members and friends to shut up. I'd invest in that talking type thingy Stephen Hawking has and metaphorically shut up.

[Eris]

How could any biological functions (as in healing) occur if you're frozen? Unfreeze, you still have the disease, and you missed out on a year of drama and nothing is more head desk worthy than a years worth of drama and no way to tell your yammering family members and friends to shut up. I'd invest in that talking type thingy Stephen Hawking has and metaphorically shut up.

You would be cured with Phlebotnium therapy when frozen.

[Bring Me The Horizon]

I forgot to say that if you don't cure your rare condition, you sprout antlers and turn green and then spontaneously combust.

ZOMG that would be so cool antlers! and green is my fave color plus i wouldn't mind combustion as long as I got to hold my Bio teacher will I did...

But I would rather be put in a freezer id stay 16 for year sweet but would I still have to stay a highschool sophomore? or would I get bumped to junior??