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There is no such thing as living forever. We may be able to extend our lives to thousands of years, but it will not be forever. Notice that even species that ha
by felipemnoa 15y ago
There is no such thing as living forever. We may be able to extend our lives to thousands of years, but it will not be forever. Notice that even species that have lived for millions of years die off. Eventually something will kill you, either an accident, a malfunction on whatever is keeping you healthy, or another person with a hammer. Thrust me, death will always be with us.
As a side note, people cite overpopulation as one of the problems of people not dying. I don't think this will ever be a problem. We will naturally adjust. If you are going to live for hundreds or even thousands of years would you really have kids when you are only 25-30 years old? I imagine people will wait until they've reached 30 or 50% of their life span simply because there is just no rush.
- malnourish 15y ago>I imagine people will wait until they've reached 30 or 50% of their life span simply because there is just no rush. The biggest problem here is that we would need a change in human sex characteristics. We would have to change the way a female matures so that she would be able to (healthfully) breed at that age, otherwise should she desire children, she would have to have them at a (relative to long lifespan) very young age. One other proposition would be the secure storage of her eggs.
- Symmetry 15y agoWe can already freeze human eggs just fine. Heck, if you count zygotes you could say we've already brought people back from cryogenic storage.
- barry-cotter 15y agoStem cells dude, they're totipotent[0]. Work is ongoing into infertility treatments based on them too[1]. [0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_potency#Totipotency http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_potency#Totipotency [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell_treatments#Infertility http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem_cell_treatments#Infertilit...