The Washington Post has an article out focusing on a scientist that believes that within the next 20 years medicine and technology would allow people to live for over 1,000 years. Mind you, this is not as vegatables, but with the body of a young adult. My question....how do you feel about this?
2007-11-01 08:53:09 · 6 answers · asked by Downriver Dave 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Here's the link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/30/AR2007103002222.html?hpid=features1&hpv=national
2007-11-01 08:53:24 · update #1
I don't see why not.
1000 years is a lot of time but this world is so full of wonders and excitement and great times that I highly doubt you'll ever get bored. During one lifetime most people specialize only in one career/field.
You'd also be a great source of firsthand history, that's for sure.
In general I find it a little sad that some of you think life is so full of hardship that to extend it a bunch would not be worth it. But to each his own it probably won't matter in our lifetime.
BTW I would never say life is "too short" but certainly I see no real problem with life extension.
2007-11-01 09:44:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've been pointing out this possibility to people for a long time.
But as you can see here (and in similar questions in this forum) a lot of people WANT to be dead. And when I point out that when the technology arrives they are free to continue dying if they want to, they usually respond that it's not enough - they want ME dead too.
I think that illuminates the sides and what's at stake nicely.
2007-11-01 17:04:50 · answer #2 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in what way would this be positive? man lives 80 years now and we are completely destroying everything natural. if every human lived to be 1,000 the world would be immensly over populated and eventualy we'd be the only species of animal on the planet.
2007-11-01 16:02:50 · answer #3 · answered by thegostackdistimmsthedoshes 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Of course, I'm not saying that living forever is impossible, but living forever could be impossible for the human mind to perceive.
I know, I would DEFINITELY not want to live forever, because, if you think about, eventually, life would actually become boring (kind of hard to beleive that it would be entirely.).
2007-11-01 16:13:49 · answer #4 · answered by Jason Marke' 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't believe it.
2007-11-01 16:01:20 · answer #5 · answered by Ambassador Z 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I feel...lies...
That's how I feel.
2007-11-01 16:00:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋