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Matter: How Long Can We Live? The Limit Hasn’t Been Reached, Study Finds

• XalvinX 8y ago
  According to the Bible, well over 900 years.
  • cko 8y ago
    Well if you’re gonna go there, the Cakkavatti Sutta, DN 26, of the Theravada tradition in Buddhism, says the upper limit is 80,000 years.
    • XalvinX 8y ago
      good to know. cool. I hope to make a few thousand anyways.
    • qarioz 8y ago
      80k is the average at that era like current era is averaged at 80. So if you extrapolate it is around 100k.
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• jeffreylees 8y ago
  I've always found this to be an interesting topic. See here for more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYNADOHhVY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYNADOHhVY . The argument made there is basically that death (human aging, at any rate) is a sort of condition, or disease, if you will, like any other, that could be solved if we plied it with enough resources. Maybe the real question is where on the scale the extension to life happens? If we keep reaching adulthood, and then elderly, more inhibited lifestyles at the same ages, just prolonging the elderly state via good medical practices, that's one thing. But if we could slow aging in general to extend younger and middle-aged sections of life, that'd be another thing altogether.