NecronLord wrote:With repeated use it will mess your brain up. You know what? So will morphine. Doesn't mean doctors aren't prepared to administer it when it's required. Same with the sarcophagus. Its use to negate accidental or malevolent death does not immediately lead to sociopathic tendancies. Daniel Jackson and Jack O'Neill have both been through it multiple times without permanant damage. One use (to say, un-kill someone) doesn't make them rampantly egotistical, either. Observe that Daniel, after being put through Ra's, was still willing to risk his life for people he barely knew at that stage by defying Ra. And that's just one instance.
It has obvious medicinal value. I would hack both my legs off if it would make the drugs and treatments we're using in medicine today as benign as single dosages of sarcophagus.
It doesnt really matter though. As far as we know the SGC does not have access to one anyway. The only one they have had was destroyed and we have not seen any recovered with the fall of the System Lords.
Who gets to use it if the SGC was to get one. Odds are it needs some sort of power supply. Also the fact that it takes a moment to work means there are only so many people you can put through it.
If I was a SGC team and I came across one I think I would quietly dump grenades in it and keep walking. Imagine the social / political / moral issues that would develop with the SGC and by extension the US Government in general having access to an immortality machine that ONLY certain high ranking / important / military and political figures have access to.
Talk about creating an elite society.
In fact this would have made for a very interesting SG-1 episode. A society that threw off the Goa'uld and have access to a sarcaophagus. In the society only the elite (imagine high level government officials, military higher-ups, multi-millionaires etc) have access while the everyday members of society are forced to live out regular lives.
Baal wrote:
In fact this would have made for a very interesting SG-1 episode. A society that threw off the Goa'uld and have access to a sarcaophagus. In the society only the elite (imagine high level government officials, military higher-ups, multi-millionaires etc) have access while the everyday members of society are forced to live out regular lives.
