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Because I don't want to live so long that I spend a large portion of my life in ever increasing pain and feeling my mind slip away from me. Just give me a short
by philbarr 12y ago
Because I don't want to live so long that I spend a large portion of my life in ever increasing pain and feeling my mind slip away from me. Just give me a short sharp shock around 80, if you can please.
Of course, that's what I think now at 36. Maybe by the time I'm 80 I'll be thinking, "reckon I can handle a few more years...."
- cliveowen 12y agoGenerally when people are talking about extending human lifespan, they're talking about extending the active, healthy lifespan. Obviously, what we did until now with medical advances is prolong old age and delay the inevitable. If it's possible to slow aging, then being 80 doesn't mean anything per se, it's just a number if you're biologically like a 20 year old today.
- ownagefool 12y agoI think the idea of the anti-aging drugs from the article is you're supposed to remain youthful well into your elderly age.
- Mvandenbergh 12y agoI think most people would prefer a scenario where they live to the age of 80 at the kind of physical peak they attained in their 20s to one where they live to 120 in a state of ever increasing decrepitude. Put another way, the dream is to give you 5 decades of being 25, not 5 decades of being 85.