• Question: if you had 10 lives how and when would you use them?

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      Asked by zeter :) to Alan, Becky, Jo, Sankar, Sarah on 13 Mar 2015.
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        Sarah Kirk answered on 13 Mar 2015:


        I would live each one for as long as possible! I can’t imagine dying 10 times would be fun :/
        It would be quite interesting if you had 10 full lifetimes, you would see so much change over hundreds of years. I would probably start writing history books of all the things I’d seen!

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        Jo Sadler answered on 13 Mar 2015:


        Life 1: I think I’d carry on with my current one, as I’m really happy with what I’m doing (as I hope you’ve gathered by now, I really like science :D)

        Life 2: I’d train to be a doctor
        Life 3: Architect
        Life 4: Artist
        Life 5: Take my violin around the world and see how long I could live off busking
        Life 6:I’d climb lots of mountains which were usually too dangerous (I’ve got plenty of lives left!)
        Lives 7 – 10 would be back ups for when the others went wrong…

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        Becky Gregory answered on 13 Mar 2015:


        I think this would depend on whether I knew what I had done in each of the other lives. If I knew that in this life I had been a scientist, then in another of my lives, I would probably pursue history, or music. It would give my lives variety.
        However, I am not sure I could stray too far away from doing some sort of science, as I could not see myself as a lawyer or an accountant, for example! I think my love of science would break through in each life eventually.

        I would also like, perhaps to live each life in a different country, so I could experience different cultures. That would be very interesting!

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        Alan McCue answered on 16 Mar 2015:


        Haha tough question but I guess I’d use each one to learn from last the last one. That way I could avoid all the stupid mistakes I make

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