If you think about it quite a few people are living well into their 90's and a few into their 100's and medicine was still in its relative infancy when they were growing up!
Will the world we live in now..Would you want too?
2006-08-22 07:21:59 · 73 answers · asked by tee_hee_ssh 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
I meant to type..with the world we live in..Sos x
2006-08-22 07:23:17 · update #1
Hi Kaylee! 150 I should think. But do we really want to live that long? Depends who it is with I guess! G. xxx
2006-08-22 07:28:50 · answer #1 · answered by Saudi Geoff 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Scientific studies have revealed that people over the past 4 years have lived longer than ever. Since a long time ago there were very few ways to help people with life threatening ailments. Now there are tons of drugs to reverse diseases. It's actually been said that the world is becoming overpopulated because a lot less people are dying every year than they were about 100 years ago.
2006-08-22 07:33:18 · answer #2 · answered by ♀♥♂☮Trippy Hippie☮♂♥♀ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well the food we eat is worse, and quality of life in old age not good. We are not as healthy, so we have better medicine to keep us alive. Diseases are growing resistant to medicine, and strains are hardening. Penicillin will eventually be useless. It is scary, but outbreaks of nasty things are likely. There is an up side. We have isolated a part of the chromosome (tip) that controls living. It gets eaten away over the life time by acids the body produces. When it is gone, you die of old age. (stress eats it faster, so you can die faster from a hard life. That is why young people who have hard lives look old.). We may soon be able to literally stop it. In the long run, it looks like the future could hold shorter lives. You never know, so why worry.
2006-08-22 15:38:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As far as medicine has come in just the years since I was born... I would say well into 100s, if not 150.
I wouldn't mind living to such an advanced age, as long as I could have somewhat the quality of life I have now.
2006-08-22 07:35:04 · answer #4 · answered by ChiChi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Medical science has advanced greatly in the past decades, but only in helping the rare and deadly illnesses. The most common causes of natural death still plagues us... some of which are so much more prevailent today than they were years ago -- like obesity. Just think about how many people aren't eating right and unhealthy compared to those 40-50 years ago. If you consider that, I'd say we're just as bad off as they were back then.
2006-08-22 07:30:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guessing and hoping...I would say that humans born now will live into their 70s or 80s. But some will die along the way from accidents, being murdered, diseases, natural catastrophes, etc. I would love to live into my 90s or 100s as long as I could still function on my own. I would not want to live in a vegetative state. It's truly a blessing to see an elderly person who still walks, talks, has a sound mind, and is capable of taking care of himself/herself. I want to be around as long as it is God's will. I hope I'm on the long life list with Him.
2006-08-22 07:31:39 · answer #6 · answered by intentionalmasterpiece 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There have always been instances of people living into their 100s. But also people dying relatively young in their 50s.
I think it will remain as it is with an average life span of around 70 - 80 years.
It would be okay to live into your 100s if you were fit (a relative of mine is almost 106 & quite fit except for her hearing) but if you were in a nursing home & having to be fed/washed etc. then that isn't living, its existing.
2006-08-22 07:49:03 · answer #7 · answered by monkeyface 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi there!
Well in biblical times they reckoned man lived three score years plus ten. (70)
However, with medical advancements and the eradication of certain childhood diseases etc, we have the capacity to live to 120. But people don't. Too many pollutants and unhealthy lifestyles means we're not reaching our potential. When I was a kid there might have been one kid in the entire school with asthma. Nowadays it's common!
Realistically though, the longer we live, the longer we are EXPECTED to live. But only if the NHS can afford to pay for all these advances.
2006-08-23 11:28:15 · answer #8 · answered by JustineTime 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even today there are people who pass the 100 mark, and given that we are healthier today than our parents or grandparents were, it's pretty well a sure bet that the succeeding generations will do even better. A child born today will likely have the possibility of living to 110, and being fairly active and in good health even during the last years of their lives.
Would I want to? You bet!
2006-08-22 07:29:51 · answer #9 · answered by old lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
105.
I believe that in the next 20 years or so, there will be a medical life-extension protocol that will add about 15 years to a person's life. It will be expensive to begin with, but will come at the right time for people born today to benefit.
2006-08-22 08:02:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What ever they are now + about 8-10 years (except for americans who will have plenty of new land after that to live to well over 100.)
Hope this helps.
2006-08-22 07:30:22 · answer #11 · answered by Spaghetti MY 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋