  The object of this paper is to investigate, classically and quantum
mechanically, the relation existing between the position-dependent effective
mass and damping-antidamping dynamics. The quantization of the equations of
motion is carried out using the geometric interpretation of the motion, and we
compare it with the one based on the ordering ambiguity scheme. Furthermore, we
apply the obtained results to a Fermi gas of damped-antidamped particles, and
we solve the Schr\"odinger equation for an exponentially increasing
(decreasing) mass in the presence of the Morse potential.
