No, because eventually all other organs wear out, your liver, kidneys, brain, skin, also your vision and hearing diminish with age, bladder and bowell function also eventually diminish, and if you lived long enough with your brain, you'd more than likely develop alzheimers or dementia. Sounds like a load of fun to live forever, don't it?
2006-07-27 06:39:14
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answered by messijessi 4
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Well, for starters, ALL natural death stems from a single source: respiriation. Everything else stems from that. When your body takes in and process oxygen, toxins are created as a side effect. These are what cause your body to age. Even as you breath to live, that very breath is very slowly eating away at your lifespan. So, heart failure or any other "natural" death is ultimately caused by respiration.
Anyway, tradeing hearts all the time would be a very improbable idea. For starters, finding a heart for anyone that their body won't reject is very difficult. There are a great many factors that determine if a heart MIGHT survive in a new body, the least of which is blood type. Same goes for other organs as well.
Still, while it may be theoretially possible, if improbable, to extend the lifespan of a human, one organ can never be replaced -- your brain. Thoughts, memories, experiences and such cannot be transfered from one brain to another. And your brain also ages due to respiration. So, in effect, no matter what you do to the rest of your body, your brain, and therefore you, will eventually die.
I'm purposefully leaving out any religious connotations from this, BTW.
2006-07-27 06:47:12
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answered by Anonymous
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Interchangeable parts is something that is being looked at by science/medicine to counteract disease. Stem cell research and cloning may prove to be a way to prolong life by changing organs that are engineered from our own tissue to lessen the effects of organ rejection.
Still, immortality is probably not an option because as the body ages, and it ages daily, the mutations in our genes increases as they replenish in our bodies. That opens the door for cancers to appear when they are unchecked and out of control, this happens as the body ages. There's also alzheimer's disease which happens as the body ages.
There's really no short cut to immortality. It's like a domino effect, you fix one thing, then something else sprouts up that you have to fix. There's still only so many face lifts and plastic surgery you can have until you just look like an old bag of bones with skin sewn up tightly as a drum. Is the snatched face and startled look of someone who's had too much plastic surgery appealing? Even if you have new organs? Can't hide that face under a paper bag can you?
Who wants to be immortal anyhow? Wouldn't that be boring?
2006-07-27 06:34:37
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answered by alwaysbombed 5
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No. Experiments in cloning have shown that cells get old, just like people, and when they divide into "new" cells, they are still old cell material. So you would have to have surgery to get new organs, and anytime you have surgery, you increase your chances of dying from the surgery. The anesthetic (pain-killer) could kill you, or you could catch an infection from some other person who is at the same hospital for treatment, or the doctor could make a mistake, and you might have a wonderful new organ but you would still be dead. There are all kinds of "natural causes", and why would you want to be immortal anyway? At 13, you have a lot of living in front of you!
2006-07-27 06:38:58
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answered by dig4words 3
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Even if you died they could not get you a heart theat matched your blood and heart type and you can't come back to life after your heart fails because your brain would have died too beacause of no blood flow.
2006-07-27 13:17:50
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answered by Anonymous
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actually most death reports of the elderly say Kidney Failure, so eventually everything breaks down, we are not meant to live forever.
2006-07-27 16:58:10
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answered by Anonymous
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