can a man live for ever? can he become immortal? how?

Answer 1

no. its impossible. stop reading crap about stupid crap.

Answer 2

Anything is possible, give that you have the time and resources available to you to find the answer. If immortality is possible you can bet that the people that will find the answer and begin implementing it are those that have "unlimited" resources (i.e. money).
Do I think it's going to happen? Maybe. Will it happen within the lifetime of the 10 or so generations currently inhabiting this little world of ours? No.

There are consequences to a long life. An immortal race of beings, human or otherwise will have a universal outlook on time itself. That means, to be blunt about it, they would have all the time in the universe and therefore there will be no drive for them to advance. They will be a stagnate race, never changing, never discovering because there will be no need to. It'll all be there when they find it.
The largest factor that makes humans human is our limited lifespan. It is the driving force behind all of our discoveries and our accomplishments as a race. In the span of 50,000 years we have moved from primitive hunter/gathers living in packs, to a planet encompassing society in the beginings of exploring our own galactic backyard. On a universal scale, humans have been moving forward a breakneck speed.
Evolution has slowed for us, true. Our own accomplishments in medical science as done that to us by all but limiting natural selection and giving the human race the ability to increase our survivability rate. Even as few as 100 years ago, nature still played a part in who survived to breed. Those with the urge to explore and yet had a strong sense of self-preservation were the ones that nature allowed to create the next generation in the hopes that this would eliminate any self-destructive tendancies. In a sense this is still going on but our society has taken over for nature in the form of economics, criminal activity, addictions ecetera.

A good counter-question would be "If humanity were to become immortal, would it take advantage of it or stagnate?

Answer 3

Well not at this point in time. However, evidence indicates that many people living today will have the ability to choose when and if they die. So you might want to clean up our health act a little to be ready. If you follow the medical literature you will see that there are several things in the works that should extend human lifespans a great deal. The curve of progress on medical discoveries is becoming close to the general tech curve, We have a great deal of techniques that work in lab animals that need to be tested in humans. However the current administration and it's attitude toward stem cells and biological research in general is not helping

Answer 4

Ray Kursweil(sp?) makes a very strong point that it is possible. His point is that we would have to put our intelligence into a "non-biological substrate"(I think that is the term that he used) Read "The singularity is near". He makes a very strong point for it. Personally I think that once you get out of the biological then you get away from true life to very very sophisticated "if then" statements and basically be dead.
Others are making a very strong point that we can regenerate all of our organs. The science is very strong that it can be done. If people are saying that it is not possible then they are not current and will end up in the "radio is not possible" class of people.
The question then is why live that long. Part of living is dying. I think that it is important to have a long long full life and then complete the journey and die. If I could make my body live forever I would not want to. I eventually want to go home.

Answer 5

people only become immortalized in stories and myth.
ever hear the story of gilgamesh?? it is possibly one of the oldest stories of time.

gilgamesh wanted to be immortal, so he thought if he built this HUGE wall around his city, he would be immortalized. well, many things happen in the story and the realization is that he is immortalized in the story and it is thousands of years later and people still study the story of gilgamesh in college.

another way of creating "immortality"...procreation. live on in your children and grandchildren.

Answer 6

If yes, u'd be too fat for it (looking at the pic).
No offence or anything, but being fat isnt good for ur health!
And why a man? women live longer. Statistically.
And i HIGHLY doubt you cud live forever. And it wud be boring. Nobody would die! You couldn't wish for ur worst enemy to be dead, because they wudnt die. And the population... KABAM!!!!!
Dude there is world hunger alrdy. Even more ppl wud mess up EVERYTHING. Anyways, How would it work that there are loads of ppl wanting food, but none of them will starve even if they dont eat because nobody dies?
It's a question that, if realised, has bad consequences, my friend.

Answer 7

Maybe, but only by eating plenty of fatty, high cholesterol foods that are low in nutrients. Also this aspiring immortal should refrain from exercise.

Answer 8

Futurist Ray Kurzweil believes that technology will be available within a few decades that will allow humans to "live forever" (or a few thousand years until we die by accident).

He wrote about this in a recent book "Live Long Enough to Live Forever."

Answer 9

I think the answer is yes. Anything is possible. If God wants you to live forever than you will. In the bible people used to lived for 100's of years. But we dont live the same anymore. We dont take care of ourselves like the bible instructs us to. There has to be a way but only God has the answer. Ask him and he might reveal it to you.

Answer 10

I'm immortal but I won't tell you how to become. It's a secret.

Answer 11

only when ho does anything good to the human society he will live in peoples heart as an immortal.