I only want to live to the point of physical, mental and emotional good health, still productive and functioning independently, without medical intervention. However long that will be is relatively unknown, but I have no plans to go to extremes to achieve longevity.
Only a madman would want immortality in this life.
Think about it. There may very well be immortals among us, "Highlander" style, but they'd have to stay hidden because of what governments would do to them if it became known eternal life were possible.
They'd have to move on once it became obvious they weren't aging, have to find ways to legally transfer ownership of properties, bank accounts, Social Security numbers, et. Have to change their appearance in this Age of Surveillance.
If they were able to have children, how much of their immortality would be passed on? Would they have to watch their own kids die because they married a mortal? Maybe over and over again?
However, it's a terrible waste of a sapient being's intellect and value to the world to not even get a whole century, and the second half of THAT is spent falling apart. So here's what I would want:
You're talking about it like it's the Highlander series, man =) We may be getting close to the point where this is a real thing, in the real world, that people can just choose to do.
PS: I was thinking about using Highlander as the TV example, but went with "In Time" instead.
I'll tell you that's a tall order. The breakdown of the body as we age is systemic and massive, in my experience. I worked in a nursing home for 38 years. The obvious caveat is YMMV, but there is a reason why such a massive amount of our lifetime health care dollars is spent in the last few years of our lives, because the self-repairing functions just become so broken and unreliable. It's like wack-a-mole, the sorcerers apprentice with the broom sticks, or Gulliver with the Lilliputians- everytime you think you've got one thing fixed, another one or two pop up to take their place. {Broken record time}: Besides, God may not allow this. Even the ante-deluvian patriarchs lived to be "only" 1,000 years, after that we have Moses hale and healthy until 125. The patriarchs almost certainly had more pure genes than we do, as sin has since corrupted us all. Personally, I don't want to live forever in this body, I want the glorified one to come. Besides that, how much longer until this nation implodes? Is A.I. actually going to be able fix our cultural decay and our federal deficit?
First, nobody mentions that you have to have an income of some sort. Do you want to work until your're 120 or so?
Second, these longevity geeks can talk and do strange things (that no one knows for sure are really effective) and take extreme measures, but until they get to 120, they haven't done anything that hasn't been done without extreme interventions. And even then, how do they know what really worked and what might have actually been counterproductive?
Interesting for sure, but if you think we have a housing crisis now, what happens when no one dies? And we are going to let all these 120 year olds drive? 🤣
I only want to live to the point of physical, mental and emotional good health, still productive and functioning independently, without medical intervention. However long that will be is relatively unknown, but I have no plans to go to extremes to achieve longevity.
I’ll go as long as I can but not after I have to be force fed puréed food 🤣
haha. yes, at that point pretty much everything else is on the short slide to demise.
Only a madman would want immortality in this life.
Think about it. There may very well be immortals among us, "Highlander" style, but they'd have to stay hidden because of what governments would do to them if it became known eternal life were possible.
They'd have to move on once it became obvious they weren't aging, have to find ways to legally transfer ownership of properties, bank accounts, Social Security numbers, et. Have to change their appearance in this Age of Surveillance.
If they were able to have children, how much of their immortality would be passed on? Would they have to watch their own kids die because they married a mortal? Maybe over and over again?
However, it's a terrible waste of a sapient being's intellect and value to the world to not even get a whole century, and the second half of THAT is spent falling apart. So here's what I would want:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImmortalityBeginsAt20
Forget immortality. Just give me 150, 200 years as a physical 21-year-old, then hit me with a fatal heart attack or stroke that kills me quick.
You're talking about it like it's the Highlander series, man =) We may be getting close to the point where this is a real thing, in the real world, that people can just choose to do.
PS: I was thinking about using Highlander as the TV example, but went with "In Time" instead.
I'll tell you that's a tall order. The breakdown of the body as we age is systemic and massive, in my experience. I worked in a nursing home for 38 years. The obvious caveat is YMMV, but there is a reason why such a massive amount of our lifetime health care dollars is spent in the last few years of our lives, because the self-repairing functions just become so broken and unreliable. It's like wack-a-mole, the sorcerers apprentice with the broom sticks, or Gulliver with the Lilliputians- everytime you think you've got one thing fixed, another one or two pop up to take their place. {Broken record time}: Besides, God may not allow this. Even the ante-deluvian patriarchs lived to be "only" 1,000 years, after that we have Moses hale and healthy until 125. The patriarchs almost certainly had more pure genes than we do, as sin has since corrupted us all. Personally, I don't want to live forever in this body, I want the glorified one to come. Besides that, how much longer until this nation implodes? Is A.I. actually going to be able fix our cultural decay and our federal deficit?
First, nobody mentions that you have to have an income of some sort. Do you want to work until your're 120 or so?
Second, these longevity geeks can talk and do strange things (that no one knows for sure are really effective) and take extreme measures, but until they get to 120, they haven't done anything that hasn't been done without extreme interventions. And even then, how do they know what really worked and what might have actually been counterproductive?
Interesting for sure, but if you think we have a housing crisis now, what happens when no one dies? And we are going to let all these 120 year olds drive? 🤣