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Thread: Immortality - let's go for it! |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
every day i hear people saying "i don't want to live forever" etc. well that's not my viewpoint!
of course i am assuming we would keep our present bodies (more or less) instead of being put onto compact disks  i heard the latest theory of aging (apart from "free radicals") involves the fact that 'telomeres' get shorter every time a cell divides, causing errors and aging. i would love to hear from you people about all this! |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
After a decade of working in nursing homes and hospices I most certainly DO NOT want to live forever.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
After a decade of working in nursing homes and hospices I most certainly DO NOT want to live forever. he didn't say how things woudl work with aging - I doubt many people would want to live forever if they were basically sat 24/7 vegitating |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Well we have a lot of diseases to cure before worrying about radically increasing general lifespan.
Plus, the planet is already over-populated.........we cannot, as a species, look after the population we have now. Where is all the food gonna come from? Housing space?....fresh drinking water? Would increased lifespan be allied to ever more draconian limits on birth rates??? The initial question leads to many more fundamental questions....and that's even before considering the morality issues. |
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rendition54
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Aug 16, 2005 Post Count: 2609 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I don't believe the current human "mindset" leads to a sustainable future for humankind. War, hunger, greed, intolerence, pollution....
----------------------------------------If we all lived forever nothing would change. We need to move on and hope attitudes and lifestyles change with future generations. Hey, I can hope can't I? Have a happy weekend!   |
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Former Member
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Well hm I'm still young to even think about death. So right now I think that it would be nice to se all this technology and stuff that will happen in I don't know 100 years. Space programs, AI maybe, where will computers be and so on.
Maybe not forever but 200 would be nice :-) :-) |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Yep, I wanna see how things progress, bur not permanently. Everyone goes mad insane after a certain point of being immortal... sooner or later...
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
See my kids grow up is good enough for me
 Besides.........who can afford a pension for xxx years?  |
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GEORGE DOMINIC
Senior Cruncher Joined: Nov 21, 2004 Post Count: 227 Status: Offline |
live forever the bible insists!
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Former Member
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where will computers be and so on bring on the AMD dec-octo-quad-dual cores |
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