Can we live for ever?

[Randy]

We live in an amazing time: we’re starting to think of “ageing” not as a fact of life, but a disease that can be treated and possibly prevented, or at least put off for a very long time. Our knowledge of what causes us to age – and what allows some animals to live longer than others – is expanding rapidly. And though we haven’t quite worked out all the details, the clues we are gathering about DNA damage, the balance of ageing, metabolism and reproductive fitness, plus the genes that regulate this, are filling out a bigger picture, potentially leading to drug treatments. But the real question is not how we’re going to live longer but how we are going to live well longer. And since many diseases, such as diabetes and cancer, are diseases of ageing, treating ageing itself could be the key.

Thoughts?

 

[Merciless]

I doubt immortality will ever be a thing, the human body is far to complex and there’s way to much to go wrong.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

I doubt immortality will ever be a thing, the human body is far to complex and there’s way to much to go wrong.

Who needs a body, they just have to figure out how to keep the brain alive. Put it in a robot body.

 

[Merciless]

Who needs a body, they just have to figure out how to keep the brain alive. Put it in a robot body.

I say it could never happen because people would take their own lives eventually, it would be very difficult to preserve all our organs and keep them healthy.

 

[Smiley]

Who needs a body, they just have to figure out how to keep the brain alive. Put it in a robot body.

 

[MrDawn]

Immortality would be very bad thing if everyone had it on Earth. If we were off colonizing new planets, it wouldn't be much of an issue. However, we're talking billions of people never dying along with breeding and overpopulation. Where would we put all of those people? Where would they all go?

 

[Smiley]

I imagine the retirement funds wouldn't last very long.

 

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Imagine that we all live forever like the films Yet think how boring you get and become. Be 700 years old and be bored as you have seen the world 90 times over. Nowadays people are not living long enough, I mean if you think about it the future people be dying in there 70s rather then 90s

 

[Smiley]

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Imagine that we all live forever like the films Yet think how boring you get and become. Be 700 years old and be bored as you have seen the world 90 times over. Nowadays people are not living long enough, I mean if you think about it the future people be dying in there 70s rather then 90s

People are living longer these days with all the advancements in modern medicine.