Can we avoid death and live forever?

Answer 1

Aubrey de Grey thinks so. Check out his work for more info. He believes we will cure ageing and he is a major backer of the Methuselah Mouse Prize, which establishes prizes for life extension achievements. If you're really interested in the subject of radical life extension, I highly recommend the fable of the Dragon Tyrant - http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html
Achieving immortality (or at least radically extended lifesplans) organically is one thing.
But what if we can download the contents of our brain into another organism? This is addressed by Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity is Near. If you want a sense of the near future (20 years) and how radically our world can change, this is a must read. Check Kurzweil's bio. He is not a fruitcake. He is a man among mice.

Answer 2

After each duplication of cells the ends of chromosomes get shorter. The older a person gets the shorter the ends of chromosomes will be.

Unless you can find a way to stop the breaking off of the ends of chromosomes, you can't possibly live forever.

And why would you want to live forever.

Answer 3

Born once, die twice; born twice, die once.

"He who has the Son of God has life."
Jesus said, "I have come to give you life, and life abundant."

You might ask, then why do we die at all??
The Bible explains it quite thoroughly that death came through Adam's sin and separation from God is the result. God was sad that his creation, Adam and Eve, could not obey one small command, not to eat of one particular tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The tree of life was taken away so they would not eat and live forever in a sinful state. They brought sin and death into the perfect world God created. God knew this would happen in his all-knowingness (omniscience) so God had a plan from the start to redeem (buy back) what man had ruined. He is thus God of the second (third and more) chances. I'm glad, because I do blow it. I'm hoping I blow it less and less as I grow closer to Jesus more and more. Truly, He loves us and when I accept that simple gift of love, he warms me from the inside out and I want to please Him, so I am less likely to sin. It also helps greatly to read His word daily. Our family reads the Bible together usually every night. It builds our family in love and understanding.

So, to answer your question, yes we can avoid death and live forever since if we trust in Jesus, we have passed from this present death into His life in us. The physical body dies or is transported whichever God decides as in the case of Elijah and Methuselah's daddy--I forget his name. I've heard also that our memories live on like in a computer chip. Our disk just gets installed into a better, more relevant "computer".

God bless

Answer 4

Yes, you will live forever, if you have kids.

You are a product of your genes and your genes are immortal. Your genes are a direct link to the very first life on earth. Not a single one of your ancestors died celebate. Every single one lived long enough to have babies, and by doing so, passed their genes through time to be cared for by the next generation.

Your genes will live on in your children and in theirs and so on for ever (or as long as we're around as a species). Go forth and multiply (or at least have one fertile child). ;o)

Answer 5

You could, if you could find the Sorceror's Stone and brew the Elixir of Life and live like Nicholas Flamel. Haha! The answer is.... NO! You cannot.

Answer 6

no. it is completely imposible for us to prolong our lives to the point that we would never die. there is a gene of our that is naturaly turned off for better lack of terms that could cause us to live up to 6 times our normal life expectancy. but if we were to activate this gene we would age much slower aswell. we also still need to find this gene. we have found it in worms inside the 33% of their DNA that matches our perfectly. we just still need to find it in our own DNA.

Answer 7

I heard one theory to live a very long time. Perhaps there is a way to super-coil DNA, which unravels slowly with aging.

Answer 8

no you start dying the second you are born some live longer than others but every body has to die it's the only thing you have to do in life

Answer 9

maybe science will discover it...
but life would be meaningless without death isn't it?
the world would be over populated if that happens...
and when it does, some would beg to die at that time but cannot... "when there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth..." i hope i'd be gone by that time comes...

Answer 10

first you have to determine death
we are made up of heaps of stuff and a lot decays and turns into something else and that something else can feed other organisms and add to that so its a form of recycling if ya like but you wouldn't know about it at the time.