Who Wants To Prolong Life?

[Berfikirlah]

About our age as human beings no one knows how long we live because all destiny is determined by god, but we also always berusa to live healthy and eat nutritious food to keep the body to stay fit and healthy.

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[Squishy01]

I think science will one day find a way to significantly increase the average lifespan, although I think it's quite impossible to literally/physically live forever (based on what science can explain for now).

I've also read a similar research, where they kept a dog's head alive for a couple of hours after decapitation. If it isn't fake, then by all means, I believe we can somehow achieve immortality--in the very, very far future, however. Still, it's a possibility.

Personally, I want to prolong life, but not be actually immortal. I want my life and the lives of my loved ones to be extra long, but I wouldn't want to live forever. I believe it can get quite sad if I live out the rest of my family and friends. But if ALL of us were immortal, then the Earth will have to pay the price because the population will eternally increase and increase while resources will be depleted. Just my two cents sir!

[Soha]

lol nice to see an exactly same thinking with me.

I used to watch the China film in which the King had been made the immortal drug successfully but he couldn't drink it because of out of time.
I love to be such a vampire too. So worry about food and things we eating today.... hope that scientists can make an immortal drug in near future.

[vapourminer]

i would rather a shorter life of excellent health as opposed to long one in a wheelchair, diapers, gtube, oxygen tanks, dialysis etc.

work on fixing health problems 1st, prolong life second.

[MTNAX]

Everyone must have a desire to prolong life, not only to prolong life but also to use life for the benefit. It would be nice if we compensate between work and entertainment for our lives are not monotonous and more useful.

[Impulseboy]

If by living forever means I cannot die no matter how much I want to then the answer is no. But if I could still die whenever I want to then that is something I want to achieve as well. It would be nice to see how the crypto world will grow and be there when a new, more advanced technology arrives. I would also like to be there when something like transhumanism becomes achievable, as well as space colonization. A long, healthy life for me is ideal because there are a lot of things I still want to do.

[robbietobby]

Anyone at any stage can take their health into their own hands. However, knowledge of health is not a natural endowment and must be sought after. The problem is that much of the information we find on the internet regarding health is usually written by “quacks.” In order to break from this theme, I have compiled a list of 5 ways to prolong your life with citations made available for each.

[Thekool1s]

Spot on. I’m 32

I believe you can live forever physically. I dunno if you have heard about the Russian scientist who will attempt the 1st human head transplant. If he succeeds that will indirectly mean you have achieved 50% of the immortality. We have already perfected the art of cloning and cloning a human body won't be a difficult task. You can make a clone of yourself, preserve it's brain if you are ethical and transfer your original brain to the new body. The next hurdle ahead will be of the ageing brain. If I remember correctly, I saw a documentary in which they said that a brain can perform perfectly for around 150-200 years. That timeframe is enough for scientists to discover how to offload memories off from your brain, which will keep your brain healthy for another 100-200 years. Now about the issue of consciousness. I believe we will figure it out in the next 200-300 years. Once that is achieved the possibilities are endless.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2u2h6o

An episode worth watching.

P.S forgive me if my numbers are off from the documentary, I watched it like 4-5 years ago.

[percent]

Aging is just an engineering problem. We are about to enter an epoch where many exponential technologies will reach maturity and converge.
Gene therapy, DNA manipulation.
AI medical intelligence.
Nanotechnology.
Stay alive for 40 years more and it's possible you'll survive a lot longer.
A LOT longer.

[beej]

Who wouldn't want to live longer and better. I believe aging is an inevitable fate,
I think as of the moment anti-aging products have made waves in the market
and are attracting a lot people. The rise of healthy food, supplements and living
is a clear indication that a lot of people around the world are constantly conscious
with aging and healthy living.

[Len_nin]

I think lots of people dream of that,but what would happen if it was real. The world would face a problem of overpopulation, which already  exists in some countries.

[nutildah]

Weirdly enough, in the late 90s I was a member of an Extropian (life extension) forum that was run and/or hosted by Wei Dai. Some of my earliest references on the internet are there, but I was in my teens at the time so its too embarrassing to go back and look at what I actually wrote.

Probably the most interesting thing about me is that I became a Neuroscience major because I wanted to invent a computer program that would allow you to upload your consciousness to a hard drive before you died, thus allowing you to "live forever." However, after I was done with my first core Neuroscience class (you don't even get there until your 3rd year), I realized this is presently impossible and we're still far, far away from ever doing such.

My current take is you're better off keeping your brain alive inside a jar, and hooking said jar up to some sort of cyborg body, ala RoboCop.

[em777]

Not only do many of the super-rich want immortality, but a good number of them are doing something about it.

Yes, that’s what I said before:

Nowadays wealthy people are spending their money in science projects because they fear dying as well.

Hundreds of years ago, the only thing wealthy people could to was to prey and give donations to Church, but nowadays they are spending their money to at least lengthen life, and at most to achieve immortality.

I find this a very interesting topic, I learned about it listening to Jose Luis Cordeiro, who talks about “the death of death”. He also talks about Cryogenics and transferring your brain.

Life lenghtening and immortality would bring other problem, like how we feed all those people, the ones that don’t die and the others that are born. But the optimistic scientists like Cordeiro believe that Science and Technology will solve these problems.

your last statement seems to have some element of truth but I would like to to know that in every technological or scientific breakthrough the point is not the adverse effect of the breakthrough but rather the level it will advance human society so I believe life extension will create new problems but it will propel human society to new unexplored areas

[Vod]

I’m a fan on how to prolong life. I want to live forever, but I know my body cannot, only my name will.

Your profile name leads me to believe you are in your 20s?

Within the next two decades scientists will develop cures for most ailments.   At first, immortality will be for the ultra-rich, but as prices go down (as long as the population stays in check), it will become available to the masses.

The question is, would you want to live in a world where 90% of your taxes go to old age pension? 

[Thekool1s]

Within the next two decades scientists will develop cures for most ailments.   At first, immortality will be for the ultra-rich, but as prices go down (as long as the population stays in check), it will become available to the masses.

Agreed! Live 4 more decades and you will probably live more than 100 years for sure!

The question is, would you want to live in a world where 90% of your taxes go to old age pension?

Depends on what kinds of benefits will I be getting when I will be in their shoes. What goes around comes around