When will people be able to live forever?

Answer 1

I hope : Never!
That is if we live forever because of vanity and learn nothing or little still, about what our responsibilities are while we have he gift (sure, within it good and bad) but still a Gift of Life!

Answer 2

I think when someone figures out the mysteries of telomeres, cancer, DNA, and cellular aging, then we can live for a very long time. Currently, we are only scratching the surface of this knowledge, but from the early indications, it looks like it may be a solvable problem. How to get human cells to reproduce without losing telomeres, without mutating, without becoming cancerous, and without having the whole organism continue growing passed adulthood into a huge giant is a big problem, but it may just have a solution.

The question then becomes, what to do when we reach that point? What happens if you live 300 years and "you've seen it all?" Will our memory get "full"? Currently, people who are 95 years old can still remember things, but what happens when you are 300? Will you get "sick and tired" of living?

I read a science fiction novel once that posited that when people become immortal, the culture changed. In the book, people lived until they were "done" and had enough, and then have a big party and then a ceremony where they committed suicide peacefully. Other people would do more and more risky things until something claimed them. The idea was that people would chose to die, even though they were effectively immortal.

In an evolutionary/biological sense, there is probably a reason that 100% of all multi-cellular organisms have a finite life span. Evolution probably designed it that way.

My guess is that it is probably all about variation and adaptation. Short life spans with a huge variation in the population's DNA combined with a huge population mean that a species as a whole can adapt to changing conditions very quickly. Yes, many individuals die, but the species lives on. That is how it works for insects, for example. Some species of insects have been particularly successful and have survived many mass extinctions, including the one that took the dinosaurs.

Maybe if the human population started being immortal, we would run into other problems? Diseases that adapt to us because our DNA is now static and the diseases have a long time to adapt specifically to our DNA. Overpopulation because babies will continue to be born, but no-one dies except by accident or choice. Lack of new ideas perhaps? (Ever notice that as rock bands age, their music is no longer pushing the envelope?) Lack of motivation to progress? It's always the youngest generation that wants to try out the new, new thing, and which has the greatest curiousity. Maybe young individuals are necessary for a vibrant and advancing species?

Anyways, if your question is, "When will people be able biologically to live forever if they wanted to?" then my guess is beginning in 100 years or so from now.

If your question is, "When will people want to live forever?" I think the answer will be, "Never."

Answer 3

It is highly unlikely that people will ever be able to live forever. Death is a part of the natural world. However, it may be possible to extend the human lifespan by many years. The recently identified klotho gene extends the maximum lifespan of genetically engineered mice. The compound resveratrol activates the gene SIRT1 and theoretically could extend life as long as 70% (based on studies in yeast). Historically, we are now living longer than ever before. Medical science will undoubtedly extend the human lifespan further, providing we don't blow ourselves up or fry from global warming first.

Answer 4

When people are cybernetic and brains have been partially or completely replaced by some super advanced artificial system. I imagine it will be like "Ghost in the Shell" only not as soon as the 2030's like the movies/series depicts. More like 4,000 to 6,000 years from now (if we can get that far without vaporizing Earth with some new potent weapon we are not even capable of understanding at this point). It's something none of us need to even worry about because we (everyone alive right now) will all be dust by then.

Answer 5

why would you want to? if we don't die, then there is no room for the new babies, and there isn't enough room to groww all the food we would need. As you age, you grow more to accept that you are only here for a short time, make the best of it and get on with it. You certainly don't worry about it. I personaly worry more that i'm going to loose a loved one, because they are all aging too.

Answer 6

This is a simple matter of events, that will start that process of regaining what Adam deliberately discarded for all of us, in Eden.

(Psalm 37:9-12) “ 9 For evildoers themselves will be cut off, But those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth. ? [Waw] 10 And just a little while longer, and the wicked one will be no more; And you will certainly give attention to his place, and he will not be. 11 But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth, And they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace. ? [Za´yin]. . .”

--Note another breakdown and the outcome:

(Psalm 37:28-30) “28 For Jehovah is a lover of justice, And he will not leave his loyal ones. ? [`A´yin] To time indefinite they will certainly be guarded; But as for the offspring of the wicked ones, they will indeed be cut off. 29 The righteous themselves will possess the earth, And they will reside FOREVER (mc) upon it. ? [Pe´]. . .”

--So the process of living forever starts immediatly after Armaggedon---and mankind that loves God and Christ will be in the mellinium of Christ and attain to perfection :

(Revelation 21:3-4) “3 With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say: “Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his peoples. And God himself will be with them. 4 And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.””5 And the One seated on the throne said: “Look! I am making all things new.” Also, he says: “Write, because these words are faithful and true.”

--The tent of God meaning his arrangements & blessings to be poured on mankind who experienced "the former things"--on the earth//It could not be in heaven since the sufferings listed were never experienced in heaven----so indeed "all things will be new"--for the survivors of armaggedon. "a great crowd"

(Revelation 7:9-10) “9 After these things I saw, and, look! a great crowd, which no man was able to number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes; and there were palm branches in their hands. 10 And they keep on crying with a loud voice, saying: “Salvation [we owe] to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb.””

--Please remember that the earth is considered God's "footstool"---so this "great crowd "does not have to be in heaven to praise before the throne

Answer 7

I doubt they ever will. Consider this: if no one dies, no one would be born. Life and death are two sides of the same coin: yin and yang, light and darkness. You can't have one without the other.

Answer 8

never considering the human race is killing themselves and we
are on the brink of mass destruction that will kill millons of people in about 80 decades

Answer 9

When they understand that life continues after biological death.

Answer 10

We already do that, but we trade in our bodies periodically.