If you could extend your life 10x, would you do it?

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I guess a better title is so it makes more sense: "If you could extend your life with science and technology to live for 1000 years, would you do it?" I didn't put that as the title because it was too long.

I guess what I mean by that is and how it would work, your aging process will slow down, and if your natural age is to live to say 100 years old, then with this new technology it will slow down your aging process 10x, making you live 1000 years. So really after living say 200 years you'd look and be as healthy as a 20 year old when technically you're 200 because you've been living that long. But you wouldn't have any weak bones, you wouldn't be suffering. You'd feel like a normal 20 year old. And after 300 years you'd feel like a 30 year old physically and look it too Would you do it?

I guess some people would do it for vanity reasons because most people want to stay young, and people say life is too short anyway, but I can somehow imagine it being a challenge living for so long. You might go crazy. But I'd like to be a very wise man living in a very young body. I'd have the experience and wisdom of a 100 year old by the time I'm physically 10. Imagine what that wisdom is capable of in another 100 years when you're physically 20, or what it's capable of after 300 years when you're 30. Does wisdom have a limit?

It would be interesting going for it just to see how much the world would change in 1000 years. Just think about what the world was like 1000 years ago, there was nothing like we have now, well imagine the technology and everything 1000 years later after this. If I would do it I would do it for that reason. Would you do it?

Yes I would do it 55
No I wouldn't do it 26
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  • VioletTrees
    11 years ago

    Is suicide allowed?

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  • dom180
    11 years ago

    Yes. I want to see what the world is like in 1000 years.

    Although that would mean I'd only be about 18 months old right now... :( I would be a genius, for a baby. And I'd have the wisdom of someone much older than me for my current age :D

    I think the world would benefit from someone with 1000 years of experiencing life, whether that person was me or not. It might as well be me as anyone else, I suppose :P

    EDIT: Here's a thought. Would you not die from disease, or an accident if you lived for 1000 years? The likelihood of catching a lethal illness, or being hit by a car or train or a hover-car or a hover-train at some time in your life would increase by 10 times if you lived for 10 times as long, surely? I mean, I think you'd be lucky to reach, say, 500, if you factored all that in.

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  • bananaface
    11 years ago

    I was going to say yes, but now I'm not sure. I dislike the idea of growing slower. As in, being 1 year old for ten years. How would that even work? Who would look after me? And you mentioned a ten year old having the wisdom of a 100 year old, how could they when they're brain isn't fully developed yet? Also, what if I get some sort of illness, and have to live 300 years like a person 70-90 year old, in pain.

    Other than that, I would like to have more time. I'm not sure if I would do that, though.

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    • scrount
      11 years ago

      That's only assuming if you get an illness which is always possible but lets just say you live your life without an illness to come and you're not in any sort of pain as a 70+ year old and you die peacefully. But I can see that you wouldn't exactly have the wisdom of a 100 year old by the time you're 10, but that doesn't mean you can't gain it so extraordinarily because after so many years it's bound to come, it just means it would be limited because your brain wouldn't be developed, but you'd certainly be more than leagues ahead of every other 10 year old because you'd have much more time to learn and come to know the world. But I guess you'd really only start learning effectively after you're not a baby anymore which is probably a good decade or two.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    Definitely. I don't understand why people would pass something off.

    I myself sometimes feel a bit depressed when I'm outside in the middle of the night, looking up at the starts and thinking to myself that one day we'll know more, but I won't be around to see it.

    If anything, I would use those years to work towards immortality.

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  • NotStrangeBird
    11 years ago

    I'd have to wait 150 years to drive a car?

    I'd have to wait 210 years before I could drink?

    I'd have to work for 600+ years before I could retire?

    No thanks.

    Consider this. Maybe your life is the result of someone wishing the exact same thing. Maybe we should have all had only had a lifespan of 7 years. How does it feel to have 10x that lifespan?

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    • kinklu
      11 years ago

      You left out that you would not have sex for 160-180 years. I would die of abrasions to my mighty warrior from all that masturbation while I waited to reach 170 years of age. Whew!

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    • ASD101
      11 years ago

      Also you left out the part of being in school for 200+ years.

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  • thinkingaboutit
    11 years ago

    I would do it out of sheer curiosity. I always wonder what the world will look like 200+ years after I'm gone. It's going to be a shit lot different.

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  • imadragon
    10 years ago

    I definitely don't think life is too short.

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  • Hargito
    11 years ago

    you then have to live many hundreds of years being old and not fully capable of living normally, i.e brittle bones, deaf etc etc...not worth it in long run...
    i would love to be immortal and forever be 21-25 and die only when i decide, i would happily live forever. of course i would live my life very differently

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  • kinklu
    11 years ago

    What fascinates me is the question of how much experience are our brains able to benefit from. Do we reach a point beyond which our intelligence can't process any more information or go into brain freeze mode, or maybe self destruct. I suspect we could make it most of the way, though.

    I wonder if you would ever grow weary of sex. Maybe you would become very kinky and explore all the various kinds of BDSM. After a four hundred years you probably would be easily embarrassed. You'd probably become jaded as some rich people do now.

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  • ohplease
    11 years ago

    Am I the only one like this? Or will this be open as an option to everyone? I don't like the idea of virtual immortality if I have to watch everyone I love and care about die.

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  • ignorethem
    11 years ago

    Regardless, there will come a time when you're 800 and looking at only 200 more years. Or you're 970. Time will go by anyway. So, if I had the opportunity now to go this route, you bet I would. Think of all the competition though. Instead of an MBA, you might have 3 PhDs to outdo the people who interview for your same job. You could own 20 houses. If you get divorced twice, so what? People will get divorced 10 times if not more. Will women get their period up to the age of 500? Well, they still have time to pop out 20 kids.

    This would be wonderful, enough time to see countries of the world, maybe all of them.
    Photo albums would be a mind blowing experience, wow..here I am at 108 years old in my play pen.

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  • Terence_the_viking
    11 years ago

    I don't think peoples bodies could handle it.

    and no i wouldn't.

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  • -Solitude-
    11 years ago

    Hell, look at what the world looked like 50 years ago. I think it's incredible how quickly society and technology changes, and I would love to be there to observe and experience it. Even if I remained unknown to the world, I would love it.

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  • squeallikeasacofpigs
    11 years ago

    I think it would be a little impractical that if you were alive for 20 years you'd still look like a 2 year old.

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    • scrount
      11 years ago

      Well, thinking about it now I don't think you'd be a baby at all because babies can't make that sort of decision. You're past being a baby now so if you made a decision it would really only start at the age you're now.

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  • GoraIntoDesiGals
    11 years ago

    I believe there's a limit to scientific discoveries and technology and we will soon enough reach it unless new physics gets discovered (hypothetical). We are already working at nanoscale and the size of a few atoms will be the limit for transistors. No more inventions/discoveries will mean the end of economic growth. Moreover, what new innovation will be possible will increasingly be only accessible to the highest IQed people and robotics will mean decreasing need for low IQed people in the workforce so expect lots of wars, famine, riots, etc. So I say no. Thanks but no thanks.

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  • scrount
    11 years ago

    I don't think being a baby for so long would actually be that bad because time for babies is nothing as a babies memory is very short so they would just forget the day that was yesterday and just enjoy the next day playing with toys, being fed and having their nappies changed.

    On the negative side, puberty can be hell for some people as adolescence is generally the most irritable and sometimes emotional time for anyone and if you take into account that it will last up to 60 or 70 something years then it would probably be too much. It's funny, most people say being a kid is the best time of your life but in this case it probably wouldn't be.

    I'd like to still be young when everyone around me grows so old. Someone can ask me how old are you and I'll say 200 and still look like a 20 year old. Young, strong, in your prime but with so much wisdom.

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  • malkiot
    11 years ago

    I'd like to live longer simply to see where technology goes in that time :3

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  • Darkoil
    11 years ago

    I've just commented on another post about this. There is work being done with the explicit aim of halting the aging process but it does raise one really important issue, roughly 160,000 people die every day, mainly from age related diseases. If we could stop these deaths then the world would become even more over populated.

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    • malkiot
      11 years ago

      The solution is simple: Have the people who cannot afford treatment die off. Because that is what is going to happen.

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    • -Solitude-
      11 years ago

      I think if we had space colonies and limited ourselves to having one or two children, immortality would be feasible. People would inevitably die of some other cause, eventually. Perhaps a society of immortals would have a culture where they voluntarily commit suicide when they feel like they're done with life.

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