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Would you like to live for hundreds of years?

  • 19-03-2011 12:49am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,759 ✭✭✭sxt


    In a healthy robust condition?

    If medical and technological advancement allowed you to do so...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,140 ✭✭✭martyboy48




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 318 ✭✭Kaneda_


    sxt wrote: »
    In a healthy robust condition?

    If medical and technological advancement allowed you to do so...


    Do you think this will ever be possible?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    Good God no, life is tough enough.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,759 ✭✭✭sxt


    Kaneda_ wrote: »
    Do you think this will ever be possible?
    It is inevitable, given the accelerating advancements in technologies,if technological advancement is exponential..


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 600 ✭✭✭The Orb


    Hell yes, no explanation needed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    The Orb wrote: »
    Hell yes, no explanation needed.

    .. when love must die??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭smk89


    Kaneda_ wrote: »
    Do you think this will ever be possible?

    We can rebuild him.
    We have the technology.
    I just don't want to spend a lot of money



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 551 ✭✭✭Todd Gack


    Yes, and I will do.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,867 ✭✭✭eternal


    Even though I love True Blood ,dont think Id want to hang round past the time I have run out of entertaining myself.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,199 ✭✭✭Shryke


    Of course. Stupid question. :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭m@cc@


    Shryke wrote: »
    Of course. Stupid question. :confused:

    Ah, juvenile naivety.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭tan11ie


    No thanks - unless i could still look 30!:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,977 ✭✭✭Soby


    Yes but only if it was a world wide thing.Then the earth but be over populated.But if it was a case you were the only one then no cause everyone you know and love would eventally die.Green mile kinda thing


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,042 ✭✭✭stevejr


    My precious lets me live as long as I want.....

    What's the reason for being reasonable?

    Is that an unreasonable question?



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 419 ✭✭Adrian009


    sxt wrote: »
    In a healthy robust condition?

    If medical and technological advancement allowed you to do so...

    Good God, no! Even after several hundred years of good health, there's a time when everything must die. 'Tis the way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,389 ✭✭✭FTGFOP


    I want more life, fucker.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    I remember seeing some nutjob on tv a few [lots] of years ago who claimed this would be the norm sometime soon :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    My instinctive answer is hell yes but when I think about it a little it would be fairly **** seeing absolutely everyone you know, family, wife, friends all die off. You'd be left quite lonely I imagine. Who's going to hang around with a 120 year old in fairness. Probably wouldn't be able to crank one out either, so ah no, **** that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Sure, why not.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,759 ✭✭✭sxt


    My instinctive answer is hell yes but when I think about it a little it would be fairly **** seeing absolutely everyone you know, family, wife, friends all die off. You'd be left quite lonely I imagine. Who's going to hang around with a 120 year old in fairness. Probably wouldn't be able to crank one out either, so ah no, **** that.

    But lets presume that technology can maintain/ rejuvenate you in the state you were when you you were 20 or 30 or 40 or any age that you so choose, and that the diseases of aging would be managed and controlled...You could be 80 years old and have the energy and vitality of a 20 year old..

    Obviously if you gone ran over by a car, or if someone decides to kill you, you would die a normal death


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    sxt wrote: »
    But lets presume that technology can maintain/ rejuvenate you in the shape you were when you you were 20 or 30 or 40 or any age that you so choose, and that the diseases of aging would be managed...You could be 80 years old and have the energy and vitality of a 20 year old..

    Obviously if you gone ran over by a car, or if someone decides to kill you, you die a normal death
    Well then I'm sold, where do I sign up?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 318 ✭✭Kaneda_


    Calorie restriction might m ake you live LONGER,maybe long enough to avail of new treatments to extend your life.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    what's a few hundred years in infinity


    *cough*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭aligator_am


    Look for this film, one I would recommend to all even though it was made on a small budget it's better than most of the blockbusters out there.



  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    i woulda drank all the drink to drink long by then... why hold out for longer?

    :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,661 ✭✭✭✭Helix


    Kaneda_ wrote: »
    Do you think this will ever be possible?

    hopefully not

    the rich would live longer, the poor would die sooner, youth wouldnt be seen as the future any more so there'd be less effort put into them, and thered be nowhere close to enough resources for everyone


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭pulpfictionost


    sxt wrote: »
    In a healthy robust condition?

    If medical and technological advancement allowed you to do so...

    No way.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 837 ✭✭✭denballs


    I am a god, and with everything there are pros and cons to beingg immortal, the main pro, would be haveing the time to do anything you want, the main con would be as time goes by you just get more and more bored till bunjee jumping from a helicopter over an active volcano does nothing for you, but make it hard to here the domino,s guy over the phone......


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,759 ✭✭✭sxt


    Well there are alot of languages you could learn , hundreds of different countries/cultures you could visit, millions of movies and books you could potentially view , hundreds of musical instruments you could learn, thousands of people you could meet...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    Yes.

    I figure if I ever end up on a death bed....lying there knowing my sand is running through the timer. I will call for a priest, a rabbi, a yogi and any other kind of afterlife promising weirdo around. Then I will get them all to start their chanting or dancing or jigging......whatever they have to do......and pay them (cause holy men fukking LOVE!!! money) to synchronise sh1t so they finish at the exact same time. Then while the Gods fight it out and blast lightning bolts and piss at each other over my soul, I will slip through the gap and become immortal.

    Strobe - 1.....Mortality - 0.









    Problem?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭Rabble Rabble


    Sure. People live to be about 80 now anyway - this is not much of an improvement. Life is all we have, its natural to try and hang on, preferably in good health.

    Is it possible, of course it is. Stem cells etc. The only issue is the Brain, but even that looks like it can be fixed ( Alzheimers has been treated with gene therapy).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,759 ✭✭✭sxt


    strobe wrote: »
    Yes.

    I figure if I ever end up on a death bed....lying there knowing my sand is running through the timer. I will call for a priest, a rabbi, a yogi and any other kind of afterlife promising weirdo around. Then I will get them all to start their chanting or dancing or jigging......whatever they have to do......and pay them (cause holy men fukking LOVE!!! money) to synchronise sh1t so they finish at the exact same time. Then while the Gods fight it out and blast lightning bolts and piss at each other I will slip through the gap and become immortal.

    Strobe - 1.....Mortality - 0.





    problem?

    The goal would not be immortality, but prolonging healthy lifespan ..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭moonflower


    sxt wrote: »
    But lets presume that technology can maintain/ rejuvenate you in the state you were when you you were 20 or 30 or 40 or any age that you so choose, and that the diseases of aging would be managed and controlled...You could be 80 years old and have the energy and vitality of a 20 year old..

    Obviously if you gone ran over by a car, or if someone decides to kill you, you would die a normal death

    If it was like this, then hell yeah I'd like to live a few hundred years.

    If I was going to be old, incable of walking around and doing things for myself then no, that would be horrible.

    It would be great though to see what things are like one or two hundred years from now. I'm holding out for aliens and hovercraft :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭Rabble Rabble


    No way.

    Makes no sense, you were offered life and health and you choose death.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    sxt wrote: »
    The goal would not be immortality, but prolonging healthy lifespan ..

    We must go deeper.

    People that want prolonged healthy lifespan but not immortality are, not to put too fine a point on it, pussys.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,124 ✭✭✭Amhran Nua


    Is it possible, of course it is. Stem cells etc. The only issue is the Brain, but even that looks like it can be fixed ( Alzheimers has been treated with gene therapy).
    The main problem as far as I understand it is that while we can extend life almost indefinetely, by turning off the mechanisms for ageing you cause rampant cancers. Find the cures for the various cancers, and we could probably have near immortailty in short order.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm



    Just a taste. Possibly a looper but an interesting fella nonetheless.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,021 ✭✭✭mickrock


    Makes no sense, you were offered life and health and you choose death.

    Death is the opposite of birth, not the opposite of life.

    Life has no opposite.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 318 ✭✭Kaneda_


    mickrock wrote: »
    Death is the opposite of birth, not the opposite of life.

    Life has no opposite.

    Facebook is the opposite to life.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    mickrock wrote: »
    Death is the opposite of birth, not the opposite of life.

    Life has no opposite.

    What about lifelessness?


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    Why not, it would be great to watch the downfall of mankind take place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,244 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    Oddly enough I was having a conversation about this last night with a mate; he was on about this book he'd been reading:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near

    Looks somewhere between very odd scifi and amazing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭ottostreet


    I don't think I'd like it.

    Think of the changes in culture that would occur over your lifetime, could you adapt? I don't think so. After all, when you look at the youth of today, do you understand and like what they like? I'm 22, and I can't understand the popularity of most popular culture. You would be a fish out of water within a generation or two, regardless of your efforts to keep up.

    Also, to live for hundreds of years, perhaps thousands will lead to evolution of the species. You would remain unevolved, and while any physical differences are unlikely to be large, you would eventually stand out as being 'odd'.

    Next, what is the point of human interaction? You have learned more/seen more, and matured to a greater extent than any living human. Everything that happens would eventually become insignificant to you, as you have seen similar events come and go. People would become a blur as the generations pass, the first love of your life died NINE HUNDRED YEARS ago. Think of how distant the events of a decade ago seem, then make it hundreds of years.

    You would be utterly lost, utterly alone, and unable to unburden yourself.
    Have a read of this:

    5 Reasons Immortality would be worse than death


  • Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    No way... I'm a happy person but I'd be so bored by 100. Law of diminishing marginal returns would be pretty severe by 300.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    yes, yes i would


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,759 ✭✭✭sxt


    No way... I'm a happy person but I'd be so bored by 100. Law of diminishing marginal returns would be pretty severe by 300.

    If you had the ability to rejuvenate yourself and not to be defined by an aging body...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    I'd like to be really old so I could show people what 200 year old balls look like.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭Sisko


    sdonn wrote: »
    Oddly enough I was having a conversation about this last night with a mate; he was on about this book he'd been reading:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near

    Looks somewhere between very odd scifi and amazing.

    If you or your friend have not watched ghost in the shell, watch them now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,960 ✭✭✭DarkJager


    Not really, it would get very ****ing boring after 100 years or so. Just look at the highlander, so pissed off with his eternal existence that he has to behead a guy just for some lulz.


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