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I would frame it this way: Say you were given some gene therapy at age 15 or so, and you will never die of natural causes. Would you take a pill at age 80 to
by vectorjohn 14y ago
I would frame it this way:
Say you were given some gene therapy at age 15 or so, and you will never die of natural causes. Would you take a pill at age 80 to end it?
The way the survey questions were asked must have just been terrible. I think what happens is people get this picture in their mind of someone that looks like a damned ghoulish skeleton if they live to be 150, which is just silly.
One of the commenters on the site was a good example. He said something along the lines of "people start losing their senses, things stop working..." etc. No. No they don't - these are the things that kill you which would not exist if we could allow people to live indefinitely.
That started as a concise response to you, and went on to be me venting about the subject. Of course I want to live forever!
- batista 14y ago>I think what happens is people get this picture in their mind of someone that looks like a damned ghoulish skeleton if they live to be 150, which is just silly. Far from silly it is what has happened to everyone who lived to be even 120 or 90. And the people know enough people to know it. So they answered based on actual experience and observation instead of wishy washy Kurzeill-like hopes... Why would one call this silly? It's like calling someone who thinks that travelling to Africa and back to SF every day tiring "silly", because he doesn't take into account the possibility of tele-portation...