If Biological Immortality is achieved in our lifetime, would you want to live forever? If so, why, if not, why not?
Every work or goal assigned to a person must have a deadline to fulfill it. No matter, how big or small it is. Every person arrives in this world to complete a mission. There’s a time-limit for us to achieve accomplishment of our aim within a particular portion of time. If there were no time-limit or deadline, life would become meaningless. And of course, I don’t want a meaningless life.
If I could stay the age I am now 25 I would definatly live forever. If I got older and weaker then no.
I would say no i just want to live a normal happy life as i dont think you should play with the human body so much,i think its against the ethics of the human race.Just my opinion
if i never grew old, or if at the age of 100 never had brittle bones or a week body, yes i absolutly would want to live forever.
Nope, have you read the poem Tithonus? With immortality you NEED eternal youth. If you live forever and your body ages....IT WILL SUCK!! You should read Tithonus by Lord Alfred Tennyyson...it is REALLY good.
Those of you who say "no, i just want to live healthy"... thats the thing.. eventually you get sick. if you can live forever, you're not getting sick.
Ok let's see what you think of this: (as these guys say it a lot better than I can!) From: http://www.imminst.org/faq Why would you want to live forever? "Forever" is a long time, and we're not suggesting that. Most people who enjoy life can't get enough of it. Even most of those who claim they don't want to live longer than "natural" will go to the ends of the earth to cure themselves of cancer, heart disease and injuries when they get stricken. Modern drugs, surgical techniques and diagnostic tools are life extension technologies that few refuse. Is death inevitable? Death, as a whole, can never be totally eliminated. There may always be accidents, natural disasters, violence, and other things that we have little control over. However, it is possible to slow down, stop, and eventually reverse the aging process. It comes as a surprise to many people - especially to non-scientists- that there may be treatments available in the foreseeable future to stop and reverse the aging process. Why would I want to live a long time as an old/frail person? Also you may be asking: Won't there be a lot of old/frail people hanging around if this works? The answer is that that there is a difference between "old" and "frail". If I showed you someone that by all outward appearances appeared to be 30 years old, would you tell me that they were "old"? What if I then told you that the person you were looking at was actually 120 years old? "Old" is a relative term to the observer (when you were 6 or 7 years, did you not think being 21 was "old"?). In the near future when people are living longer and longer life spans, what will "old" be? Almost all of the research currently going on is meant to increase healthy lifespans. "Frail" people (those who are sickly, at the end of their life today) can never have their lifespans dramatically extended because they are much more susceptible to things such as accidents or disease. If it is easier to think about, think of it as extending the "middle" part of your life. We generally acquire more experience, knowledge, wisdom and skills as we age. Rather than putting people "out to pasture" or in nursing homes, wouldn't society be better off if we kept people youthful and productive? 32% of our country's medical expenses are spent on the elderly (over age 69). Annual health care costs for people over 65 years of age are 400% of those 65 years of age and younger. What if we could eliminate not only the suffering associated with old age, but the expense to society as well? Won't life get boring if I live for a long time? It depends, does life bore you now? If life bores you now, then chances might be good that it will continue to bore you, but living a long time should not affect that. Many people have commented that given all they know about today, there is enough to keep them busy for 10 lifetimes (of current time spans). Think of all the wonderful things that you have yet to experience in today's world. Can you honestly say that you have traveled everywhere, tried everything, and experienced life as much as you would want, just given today's state of affairs? Wouldn't you like to stick around to see a society of unlimited resources, energy, health and wealth? Think of anything and everything that you have ever wanted to do. Now, take into account anything and everything you will think of to do in the next 10, 100, 1000 years. Over a long enough time period, anything is possible. Imagine the possibility of private space travel, undersea exploration, few survival pressures, and anything else you can imagine. Society has been progressing faster and faster (think all the accomplishments in just the last 100 years), why is there any reason to believe that you will get bored if you live a long time? The answer is, there is no reason. Ok, but wait a minute. Who says stopping the aging process is possible? Most molecular and cell biologists feel that once we have a good understanding of the majority of our genes and the proteins they produce, controlling the aging process is inevitable. The human body is a wonderfully complex machine. Deciphering the aging process is simply a matter of figuring out how that machine works. There is a lot of research going on at this very moment by a lot of very smart scientists into the processes of aging, and how to "cure" aging (we here at the Immortality Institute view aging as a disease, and therefore are constantly talking about "curing" aging). So, bottom line, Can aging be cured? The answer is a resounding YES! Aging, as we view it today, is a matter of a lot of different things going wrong. Some people have these things go wrong faster, and live shorter lives, whereas some people have these things go wrong more slowly, and live longer lives. There is a lot of research going on at this very moment that will someday lead to "curing" aging. Continue reading: http://www.imminst.org/faq