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Me too, but I am secretly hoping Elon Musk or somebody figures out how to let this generation live infinitely via mind transplants or organ re-generation. Come

• agumonkey 13y ago
  I'm under the impression that, pardon the sad thought, we'll be the con'd era. The last before major shift in medicine. We'll dream about it, maybe put our fingertips on it, but we'll go before it's there.
  • jafaku 13y ago
    You can always freeze your head and wait until they can give you a new body.
    • pekk 13y ago
      Not only assuming this will be possible, but that in the future capitalism will be somehow suspended and they will start digging heads out of the morgue to resurrect for no reason.
      • jafaku 13y ago
        That's not what I meant. Besides does the morgue even keep bodies forever? I don't think so. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2268011/Kim-Suozzi-23-head-cryogenically-frozen-reborn-cure-brain-cancer-found.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2268011/Kim-Suozzi-2...
    • agumonkey 13y ago
      Or wait for him to finalize head transplant procedures http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/06/head-transplant-italian-neuroscientist_n_3533391.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/06/head-transplant-ita... Granted I can provide a body...
• k-mcgrady 13y ago
  I'd be interested to see how many people would actual avail of a service like that. Religious people who believe in an after-life probably wouldn't but I'm sure a lot of others wouldn't either. Steve Jobs quote "Death is very likely to be the single best invention of life because death is life's change agent." appeals to me and people with that perspective probably wouldn't want to live infinitely.
  • officemonkey 13y ago
    >Religious people who believe in an after-life probably wouldn't but I'm sure a lot of others wouldn't either. Once the certainty of death leaves, people will become a lot less religious. As Woody said, we're looking for distraction, and religion is a good distractor: "don't worry about death, there's this wonderful afterlife."
  • ddeck 13y ago
    >Religious people who believe in an after-life probably wouldn't Perhaps not the very devoted, but for the rest, I'm sure they would. Just as they will avail themselves of healthcare services if they get cancer, wear seat belts, avoid flying with dodgy airlines, and a myriad of other ways they seek to avoid death.
  • Zigurd 13y ago
    Life extension is not forever. Eventually, temperature, mass, kinetic energy, lack of sustenance, or chemical reactions will catch up to you in the form of accidental death.
    • benpbenp 13y ago
      Indeed. Based on current mortality statistics[1], only 2% of us would manage to live 10,000 years without succumbing to accidental death of some kind, and the number that would make it 100,000 years is just vanishingly small. EDIT: This is more a consideration with respect to "cure for ageing"-type advances, not so much the mind-uploading scenario. [1] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/acc-inj.htm http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/acc-inj.htm