Do you want to live forever?
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Posted by
sbrauner on 05/01 at 12:56 AM
Most people I’ve encountered easily respond that they don’t want to live forever (generally because they envision mind and body performance decreasing over time). I prefer to then ask them “If your mental or physical health was not an issue, at what age would you like to die?” That tends to be a much more difficult question for people to answer.
Cheers,
Shane
Posted by
ncuster on 05/01 at 03:25 PM
Exactly the point Mike made Shane. The question was asked without qualification, which causes the questioned person to think of the state of aging as it is today, requiring diminished health and capabilities. I’m thinking of writing RD and asking them if they’ve heard of extended health span. I’d be very interested in the results of this survey if the question was posed as “Given scientists could restore your mind and body to whatever age you desired, would you opt for this and if so, for how long do you think you’d want to remain in this state?” The possible choices being:
1. Would not opt, just want to live to my “natural” longevity
2. Would opt for this, stay for 100-500 years
3. Would opt for this, stay indefinitely
Posted by
Jan van Egmopnd on 06/07 at 10:15 AM
Really are so many people sick of real life? Living forever means that after twohundred trillion years you haven’t even lived for 1% of what still has to come.
While I do like the Idea of coming back without the knowledge of a previous life and have another 100 years growing old. Living forever makes the idea of hell a fun time. we all know that fire is final.
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