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The recent case of 27 year old British Reality Television star Jade Goody being diagnosed with terminal cervical cancer (http://www.stuff.co.nz/4853891a1860.htm
by Allocator2008 18y ago
The recent case of 27 year old British Reality Television star Jade Goody being diagnosed with terminal cervical cancer (http://www.stuff.co.nz/4853891a1860.html http://www.stuff.co.nz/4853891a1860.html) demonstrates how ridiculous this poll is. Sure we might all "expect" to live to be a 100, or maybe upload our brains onto the internet and then live forever, or at least until the heat death of the universe, but somehow Nature ends up having other plans. So of course it is prudent to plan for the future in terms of things like retirement savings, but beyond that, we should not expect anything other than the present. The best laid plans of mice and men, and all that.
- time_management 18y agoObviously, the nature of death is that it can happen at any time. I could die tomorrow, but I'm not likely to. I'm more interested in HN posters' thoughts and projections regarding the progress of medical technology than in whether they expect to be crushed by a falling piano tomorrow. I think humans will eventually conquer aging, but not death. Mind uploading seems unlikely, given that we don't know what mind is, nor even whether or not it's physical.