60 Minutes tonight...Would you want to live to 500?

I wouldn't. I think it would be fun to live a 100 years if you could be healthy and vital but not 500..and you?

Keep me breathen until 65 and let me be. When my time comes my time comes.

Nobody over 40 would say that!

and constantly spoke with and learned from my grandparents. Seriously, I mean what I said

...at what age can you retire from work?

:eyes:

that will give you plenty of time to save for retirement!

I think that's the name of it? it's being played a lot on the radio today.
Just love that song

I have an unending capacity to amuse myself, as well as a positive outlook towards working for goals I deem noble despite the beneficiaries often being ingrates. So a couple extra centuries to do so would be very welcome. Really though the main challege for medicine right now is increasing quality of life for the latter years. Interesting stuff going on at Alteon -- I did a diary about it some weeks ago.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/11/27/222848/40

So that 500 = 100 of today, and say 250 = 50 of today in terms of health and vitality.

If you could be 200 years old with the health of say a 30 year old, absolutely.

but to live 400 years as an old frail person?, no thank you.


The only caveat would be I wish everyone could do it as well. Would be mighty sad outliving your family by 400 years.

Another thought, if you went back 500 years and asked a person back then would you like to live to 100, I wonder what they would say? (back when life expectancy was 30 or so)

:woohoo:

At fifty, I'm still learning new things. Yeah. If I could maintain current levels of health and such, sure. Maybe part of the problem with the silly human race is that by the time we figure anything out we're on the downhill slide. After a few hundred years, I might really know something ...

But while this might be pleasant for me it raises all manner of questions ... what would the social impact? The divide between haves and have nots becomes even wider ... the ephemeral and the nearly immortal. Clearly, we cannot allow general access to the hypothetical treatment ... imagine the consequences to population growth. So, we would have to make sure only the "right people" live for 500 or more years. Now ... who the the right people be, and who makes that choice?

Heh. Imagine a world which can never rid itself of the likes Poppy and Junior. I suspect it might be better to simply expire on schedule. Death is what makes life possible ...

you could have another career. Human nature as such; it would be easy to procrastinate. " I'll go back to school and get my degree next century"

if I could.

Beats the alternative, methinks.

sue me I have a low threshold.

:evilgrin:

If we achive this than in a hundred years we will have swollowed all the planet's resources with our overpopulation which is already a problem.

Also, what is everyone going to live on. How are the young going to find jobs, that's hard enough now? You don't think there will be social security for you for 400 years, do you?

I wish the guy on that program would get his head out his ass and solve the real problems we have to deal with. And sheez man, cut your fucking beard once in a while!

social science. He knows that many problems would have to be solved for this to happen.

Fortunately I'm pretty healthy. My brother lived to be 92 and I plan on beating that.

n/t

instrument well?

If I were reasonably healthy for 500 years, then absolutely sign me up. I'm simply curious to see what will happen in the future.

I wonder if religious beliefs play a role in the answers? I don't believe in an afterlife, so I'd like to spend as much time here as possible. On the other hand, people who believe in heaven or reincarnation would figure they will have the answers to my questions without needing to live forever.

I'd be happy with 500 too...if I'm healthy.