How long would you want to live - if you had a choice?

Andrewf20

I was reading there recently about how stem cell research in the future may allow humans to live longer. It has already been done on mice. And all this got me thinking...

If they could slow down aging to any rate you wanted, roughly how long would you choose to live for? 100, 200, 2 million years, or live forever if possible?

Once you make the decision, you cant reverse it, and you have no information about what way the future will be. For me im hovering around the 2-300 year mark. I think.

BTW, its no.8 on the list along with a load of other great pub conversation starters: http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/27-science-fictions-that-became-science-facts-in-2

Pilotdude5

500 years. I'm easily amused so I always have things to do. I'd love to climb Olympus Mons.

Jaxxy

My question would be at what age does your aging stop? If I could stay relatively young (physically) for another 100+ years then I'd love that, as I think this century will be extremely interesting in a developmental sense. But I wouldn't want to be in my late old ages; drooling and having to get my nappy changed daily for a hundred years.

The_Gatsby

I'd live about 500 years.

Personally I think it's already happened. Just that the WUA (World Undertakers Authority) is keeping this sort of technology behind closed doors. Can you imagine the losses they'd make...CONSPIRACY

judgefudge

I think it's about right as it is. I'd say I'd get bored if life was longer

StormWarrior

Quality, not quantity. If I could have perfect health, live wherever I wanted, had hobbies and friends and didn't have to work in a dead end job for money then I'd be happy to live for maybe even hundreds of years.

If I was ill, poor and lived in a shythole with no chance of escaping, and had to get up every day to go to a job I hate, well I'd be happy to drop dead right now.

Holsten

A couple of thousand years, 10,000 perhaps?

I'd go with forever if there was always a planet to live on, and other people around.

PizzamanIRL

Forever, painlessly.

It's depressing to think that when you die, that's it, forever. And ever and ever and ever.

tan11ie

I don't like the thought of living beyond 90 years of age, seriously kill me off and hopefully I'll come back into riches.

working fool

Friday evening
Maybe !

candy-gal1

Forever! If the option is ever there il take it tbh, better than death/maybe nothingness/no feeling ever again!

TeddyTedson

about three fiddy

CreepingDeath

Andrewf20 wrote: »

BTW, its no.8 on the list along with a load of other great pub conversation starters: http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/27-science-fictions-that-became-science-facts-in-2

Feck long life.. I want the invisibility cloak in number 5 of that article !
I would become Dublin's vigelante superhero and my weapon of choice would be a golf putter.

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BBDBB

Im just hoping to make it to the end of this post before I drop d........................................

squod

More than twenty odd weeks.

Czarcasm

I'd prefer the choice to be able to bump myself off at 50, leaving on a high so to speak rather than spend my days drooling into a bed pan in an old folks home.

mark renton

Andrewf20 wrote: »

I was reading there recently about how stem cell research in the future may allow humans to live longer. It has already been done on mice. And all this got me thinking...

Mr Jingles?

DazMarz

I want:

-killed in the line of duty at 38

-death by sexual misadventure at about 38-39

-bizarre gardening accident at 38-39

(why 38 or 39 is my ideal age is beyond me... tho I think it has to do with going before hitting middle age properly)

or finally:

-Shot by a jealous husband at the age of 100