Lifespan Extension

[Aegist]

I don't know about you, but I really really really don't want to get old and decrepit and unable to do all of this fun stuff. I'm sure plenty of people who visit TDMSKP will probably already be in 'Old Age' and they will probably agree that having restricted motion in your joints, weaker skin, less tolerance to temperature change etc isn't much fun.

I know this seems like a pointless thing to say, its sorta obvious and unavoidable - However, I do believe that it is within the scope of scientific advancement within the next 50 years or so to perhaps be able to improve our health to the point where we age slower, or suffer the affects of ageing at a later stage. Hopefully within that time we will even be able to find a way of holding off the affects of ageing indefinitely.

Anyway, there is a huge online community of people (scientists, writers, interested peoples) who are all actively supporting research on the subject of ageing and trying to raise awareness of lifespan extension research as a concept. Hopefully it will happen in our lifetime - what a rip off that would be, to die from ageing just 3 or 4 years before the cure for ageing was released...

Check out Immortality Institute
SENS and the MPrize

[Spike]

hey shane its jake i'll come on wednesday next week so its the like 16th or whatever it is next wednesday caue i got half of tuesday of and i can come up tuesday night and then go home wednes day night so hopefully it wont rain us out again thx dude
~spike~

[Aegist]

I think more people should be interested in this stuff. I do you know.

[Kelly]

Well, I plan on living forever, and so far I've done an excellent job!

Lives are slowly getting longer, and the more diseases and illnesses that they find cures for the better chance we have of living forever I suppose.

[Aegist]

Great! Nice to hear Kelly!

I'm hoping the natural progression of increasing lifespans, and the exponential increase in technological development (particularly biological and AI) will combine to make us, or the generations before us, the first immortal generations.

I know it still sounds like a science fiction scenario, but so did flight, landing on the moon, and the human genome project. Technology advances much faster than anyone actually expects.

[trussed]

i don't wanna live forever. i think my lifespan is just fine.
unless i die tomorrow...

[rustyblade]

I do hope effective ways to delay the effects of aging are discovered and made available to the general public within our life times (and before they take hold on me preferably)...

There is so much to learn / do / see (much to explore and adventures to be undertaken) that we just can't do it all - Infact, will probably get very little achieved in our very limited time here on earth..

So untill that day (if currents trends in our understanding / technology continue without interuption), we must use our time effectively (examples: love, TDMSKP)  !!!  But I'm not sure if immortality is possible while the 'evils' of the world are in existance (example: explosions - really BIG ones).

[Aegist]

i don't wanna live forever. i think my lifespan is just fine.
unless i die tomorrow...

And on what day exactly do you think it will be that you decide "Dying tomorrow will be a good"?

Maybe you don't want to live forever, but if you never want to die tomorrow, then living forever just may well be the consequence. You don't have to like the idea of eternity, just the idea of tomorrow.

[Aegist]

I do hope effective ways to delay the effects of aging are discovered and made available to the general public within our life times (and before they take hold on me preferably)...

There is so much to learn / do / see (much to explore and adventures to be undertaken) that we just can't do it all - Infact, will probably get very little achieved in our very limited time here on earth..

So untill that day (if currents trends in our understanding / technology continue without interuption), we must use our time effectively (examples: love, TDMSKP)  !!!  But I'm not sure if immortality is possible while the 'evils' of the world are in existance (example: explosions - really BIG ones).

Hopefully we never wipe ourselves out. If we do, I guess it hardly matters really (no one will miss us...we'll all be dead!), but I would still like it to not happen.

And all of the stuff to do and see is exactly why death is such a frustrating end to it all. There isn't enough time in our pitiful lifespans. Imagine having lived throughout the last 500 years - the changes you would have witnessed. The next 200 years will probably be just as incredible again, and the thought that I will die in 60 years and miss out on so many of those advances and changes is really annoying.