I often think about how tragic it is for people like Newton, Einstien or Tesla etc to spend the first 20 years of there life learning the basics and going through cognitive processes like Neuro maturation for them to be a peak cognitive condition for maybe 40 years and then they die or incur a mental illness.Imagine what these people could achieve in 500 years opposed to 70-80 with a quarter used learning some fundamentals (maybe through advancements in gerontology IRL)?

But getting back to Fallout, could or should people be able to voluntarily ghoulify themselves to prolong their life?Imagine what Cesar, Elder Lyons, Dr Li, Myron, Col Autumn, president Richardson could have or still could do if they live for hundreds of years as opposed to merely tens of years.

Also through Bethesda bending lore with Moira Brown one quick blast from a nuke and being in the radioactive sweet spot and you've been ghoulified (might need to experiment with mole rats or profligates to find the sweet spot ) or by some other means of intense radiation.

There's a slight problem in that the transformation into feral ghouls is still largly unknown and predicting it is utterly unkown so ghouls are ticking time bombs.

So should/could people and great minds specifically have the ability to ghoulify themselves to prolong their life and ability to make progressive discoveries?

Isn't that what Desmond did?

If i am not wrong, the death rate is pretty high.

You have more chances to die of radiations than becoming a ghoul.

If a powerfull man would want to try that, he would want to be sure it would work, or at least not kill him.

So he would probably use tons of test subjects to die instead of him, in order to understand how some become ghouls while some other doubt.

I doubt he will find enough people to help him sacrify so much people for a so selfish & weird purpose.

(who would want to become a ghoul, considering there are still so much bigots after so many decades ?)

Someone like Cesar's who is already vilified by the rest of society and has the status to change cultural perceptions towards ghouls in the Legion and as I've said he could achieve so much and him living for so long would stave off a possible fragmentation that people predict would happen to the legion if he was to die (soon).

The possible rewards could be immense and it's a given that the ghoulifcation technique would need to be experimented with so it could be perfected, also someone like cesar has an abundance of profligates that he could use as guinea pigs.

But this isn't focused on Cesar solely, it could hypothetically have widespread applications.

Dam it is actually I never knew that

So my question now is should this process be seriously considered as an attempt to prolong people's lifes on a large/larger scale?

It's a risky technique but there's nothing prohibiting it from becoming less risky or only having moderate risk as far as I'm aware.