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> with life seldom being worth living after 90. I really wish we'd start investing in breaking this. I'll happen at some point What does that end up looking li
by tomxor 5y ago
> with life seldom being worth living after 90. I really wish we'd start investing in breaking this. I'll happen at some point
What does that end up looking like though, Logans Run? :D
I can't see a voluntary version of it working because of the very psychological issue you mention, we are inherently self preserving creatures in all but the most unbearable conditions. The other thing with these very personal choices, is that you just don't know until you get there - how do you or I really know if life is not worth living after 90, personally? we haven't experienced it.
I remember my Grandfather, when he was younger, specifically saying he'd rather die than live with a certain disease he saw some other people getting - which wouldn't seem like an unreasonable opinion to most people. Yet after gradually developing the very same disease later in life he certainly was not of the same opinion while he was still lucid... That stuck with me, it's easy to speculate about things you haven't personally experienced, and easy to be wrong about your own state of mind in that situation.
- radu_floricica 5y agoUh, I meant it the opposite way :) Unaliving yourself at 90 is a personal choice which I of course support, but I'm mostly talking about making sure we can live healthy lives over the current limit. The psychological issue is that even though we as individuals cling to life (sometimes too much), trying to rouse support for life extension sometimes feels like urinating in public.
- tomxor 5y agowhoops, I guess I misinterpreted what you meant by "breaking this".