21st century immortality, how long do you want to live for? with poll

[niky]

If you rewrite your genetic code so that you never age, it might be possible to rewrite it so that damage doesn't accumulate... you simply grow new tissues continuously. Of course... tissues that never stop growing and renewing themselves are often referred to as cancerous...

Even getting past that point, what would really be problematic is the accumulation of DNA coding errors over such long spans of time. You would probably need follow-up treatment every few decades to repair your genes.

 

[Exorcet]

Although I'm sure we will have unexpected complications after say the 200 or 300 year mark. Because we weren't designed to live that long; even those our DNA still thinks we are 25.

There is talk of manufacturing bodies or at least body parts with 3D printing, so it could be that we just get replacements on a schedule. That doesn't work for the brain though.

Large ages shouldn't be an insurmountable problem. While people do age and fade out in about a century, human DNA itself has managed to remain functional for tens of thousands of years.

 

[Johnnypenso]

There is talk of manufacturing bodies or at least body parts with 3D printing, so it could be that we just get replacements on a schedule. That doesn't work for the brain though.

Large ages shouldn't be an insurmountable problem. While people do age and fade out in about a century, human DNA itself has managed to remain functional for tens of thousands of years.

I don't know about that. I've run across some people right here on GTP, whose brains could easily be recreated on a printer..a dot matrix even.

 

[JockeP22]

Now it's been 10,000 years
Man has cried a billion tears
For what he never knew
Now man's reign is through

But through eternal night
The twinkling of starlight
So very far away
Maybe it's only yesterday

 

[nascarfan1400]

It doesn't matter how old I'd be I'll still be prowling around on the GTP Forums. Lol

 

[dxm8975]

Personally I chose "longer than 10,000 years" option in the poll - I'm just curious to know and see off what is going to happen in the distant future when all of your friends/family members and people born in the same age as you are not around you anymore, and for me it's intriguing to get associated with a lot of people in different generations so that I can see what matters to them the most, and what they keep in mind which is applicable to their daily life.

Also, I suppose... I actually have too many things that I want to give a try just once before I kick the bucket myself - and living for a longer age than what is considered to be possible for a humankind to last at the moment(at least longer than 125 years or so) is kinda only choice to enlarge the possibility.

I picked 500, just to see if Star Trek will actually happen. In reality though, I would be happy with living until 125, so I can see what the next century brings, but they say death is the next great adventure...
I think as long as I live and fall in love and have someone with me until then, I would say I have completed my life and at 125 I would be happy to die peacefully...
See the problem I think with living forever is that you will see people come and go, you will make friendships or fall in love and eventually they will all die, but you will be left to start the cycle all over again

Edit: Completely failed and said Millenium instead of Century. I suppose I shouldn't live on this planet anymore

Depends on how you think about death, and how one's life should become. If you fear too much to lose everything that you earned during your lifetime or you don't feel like/or overly indolent to starting afresh your life all over again from the baby age, you'll choose the "longer than usual" option, that vouches you to stay alive until you get bored with your life to kill yourself, but if you count it's no use living for such a long time or reincarnation is an important thing for the cycle of human life, then you'd go for the options like "80" or "100".

 

[mistersafeway]

Depends on how you think about death, and how one's life should become. If you fear too much to lose everything that you earned during your lifetime or you don't feel like/or overly indolent to starting afresh your life all over again from the baby age, you'll choose the "longer than usual" option, that vouches you to stay alive until you get bored with your life to kill yourself, but if you count it's no use living for such a long time or reincarnation is an important thing for the cycle of human life, then you'd go for the options like "80" or "100".

You speak as if reincarnation not only happens (no evidence, but possible I suppose) but actually allows one to retain all memory of past lives... or did I misunderstand? I have just woken up, so I could have.

 

[zzz_pt]

I would like to live forever if the people I love lived as well. OtherwiseI don't mind to live 60 / 80 years.

But if it were possible to live forever or thousands of years, it would raise ethical and moral problems for our species. Because, of course, everyone would like to stay alive with their loved ones for a longer period of time.

I guess our own death is the way nature balances everything and we just have to accept it as it is. Or at least, try to.

 

[Thematic]

But if it were possible to live forever or thousands of years, it would raise ethical and moral problems for our species. Because, of course, everyone would like to stay alive with their loved ones for a longer period of time.

Don't reproduce.

 

[zzz_pt]

Don't reproduce.

 

[jimipitbull]

If this actually happens, I wonder if many religious people will start believing in Science?

 

[Carbonox]

If this actually happens, I wonder if many religious people will start believing in Science?

Same as before: those who aren't religious enough.

 

[Com Fox]

I would like to live longer though I heard of something that living for that long can make the World an enternal prison. Which I can see, imagine when everything you love is gone. You could have seen it all. Maybe you live vary limited where everyone hates you. The World could be interesting to look at in the future but it'll take a very long time and the pain you'll go through. Is it worth it?

I might be thinking too hard on the subject but I like thinking .

 

[dxm8975]

Don't reproduce.

Giving birth to babies will become a problem for controlling the currently growing population if we're allowed to have access to the privilege for living eternally more easily unless we find out places to settle outside the earth as Prand Prix mentioned earlier.

I would like to live longer though I heard of something that living for that long can make the World an enternal prison. Which I can see, imagine when everything you love is gone. You could have seen it all. Maybe you live vary limited where everyone hates you. The World could be interesting to look at in the future but it'll take a very long time and the pain you'll go through. Is it worth it?

I might be thinking too hard on the subject but I like thinking .

Unless others decide to undergo the same treatment enabling themselves to live forever as you choose, the life would become a full of hardships for you to overcome mentally if you're afraid of losing things you loved while you're still living.

 

[sk8er913]

Giving birth to babies will become a problem for controlling the currently growing population if we're allowed to have access to the privilege for living eternally more easily unless we find out places to settle outside the earth as Prand Prix mentioned earlier.

Living for very long amounts makes colonization of the stars a lot easier. I think there will always be death, I think some some people would get bored of living, and some one like to be "natural" Like we all are at the present, then others would draw the line of being a cyborg or not... there will be many options for the lucky Generation. lol, there how can I coin a term?

 

[nascarfan1400]

If this actually happens, I wonder if many religious people will start believing in Science?

Probably so many that the non religious would laugh

 

[sk8er913]

Probably so many that the non religious would laugh

LOL! I get it now!