h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

You are offered a trip in a time machine to 200 years into the future. You can't come back.
All your relatives and friends will be long dead when you arrive. The question is : would you grieve?

No - I wouldn't go

If I was kidnapped and taken from my family and friends I would grieve - I don't think grief is caused by death - it's caused by absence.

The way things are heading at the moment, we'll be in our graves before the end of this decade so the future will probably be a wasteland. I'd like to take my girlfriend with me and start again. Ground zero. The human race mk II.

I agree with PQ, I would grieve, due to missing them rather than them being dead. They're dead, a long time ago, nowt you can do.

I suppose it really depends on your responsibilities at the moment. I mean if I was single with just me to look after I guess I'd go but as am not I'll have to pass and stay here.

I wouldn't go. The reason being that everything would be so different that I would be obsolete and nobody would care.

I agree that the absence of a person is what makes you grieve.