Point blank. The fewer years of life there are means that each year is more rare and more valuable. The globe isn't expanding, there isn't physically going to be more to explore if the life-span were lengthened. The amount of knowledge that could be learned would and is expanding far beyond our ability to learn it all, even in 300+ years. I say, just improve the overall human condition to its fullest height...and let me be health and ready for sex until a ripe old age.
"I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet; that I haven’t understood enough; that I can’t know enough; that I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn’t have it any other way." - I would want to learn as much as I could. Yes, I would eventually get bored, or go insane and kill myself after a few thousand years. I don't think my morals would change over time though. :P
Traditionally, the idea behind the vampire, or any immortal earth dwelling being, is that immortality throws off the shackles of society and allows the monster within everyone to emerge.
people grow and change as they age. Buddhism suggests this as a person reaches enlightenment. Enlightenment only comes with knowledge of ones self, and that comes through experience. This leads to something else you mentioned. perception is reality. Expanding life is only the first step. The next is space exploration, which will be affordable in 20 years thanks to the carbon fiber nano tube. After that will be terriforming of Mars. and since we live longer we will be able to see it happen.
I think it's a great idea to try to prolong life through scientific means.As long as there's enough food and drink for everyone, it would be great.
I think I'd choose to be 46 years old (my age now) because I know more now than I did yesterday, and I wouldn't wanna lose that.
What I'd do if there was no fear of dying is....erm...probably sit here and make lots of comments on youtube whilst drinking either tea or coffee, and the occasional glass of wine.
If I lived to be 300.... I would be constantly on the run from the govt and other private sectors and being made into a specieman to be used in ungodly told amounts of research and development.
I think that prolonging life is a horrible idea, for more then one reason. If we live to, say 150, then the world would be waaaaaaay over populated, then we dont need that long to experence life! If you wanna do something before you get old its called a bucket list. Go do what ever you wanna do! Go skydive, wrie a book, jump off a bridge! Live your life to the fullest because eventually you won't be able to. (Don't jump off the bridge to die... thats a horrible idea) Dont prolong decrepedness!!!
Hey, I'm 21 today and yet for the past decade (yeup) I've felt and acted a lot older than my age would imply I should. You're right, this whole age thing is so relative. Given 300 years I know exactly the kind of life I would live, but given an uncertain amount of time (roughly 60 to 100 years + or - technology and medicine) I've chosen to live a lot more responsibly and mostly think about my future when I make choices. Some of my friends say I think too much but it's all about perspective!
Living longer sounds nice but doesn't the passing of older generations help younger generations progress with the dieing of outdated ideas and the embracing of new ones?
I want to become immortal so I can rape every single woman on earth. I would create an industry of rape and hire workers that track ladies who become over 12 years old and bring them into my rape house, line them all up naked, and rape their vaginas one by one. I would train and labor nurses to give birth to millions of my sons and daughters who would be educated in space travel and living in other planets. I would create trillions of humans to rule OVER THE ENTIRE GALAXY!!!
TO me ,this idea of living for ever , or prolonging my life is ...stupid.Sorry if i offend anyone...I really don't mean to do that.I'm a 24 years old guy and I have already discovered so much about hte world we live in that It really doesn't matter much if I am dead or alive at the moment i am speaking now.And no..Im not gonna go and kill myself.I think the fact that I had the chance to live is enough..regardless if i live one year more or 1000 years(yes..1000 years...im a vampire fan too :P )
Complex subject matter. I am guessing most men still think they are in their 20s and only the mirror makes them face reality. The issue about living longer is that if you did not age physically then you would have to not age maturity wise otherwise you would not do what you did when you were younger so I don’t know. I know guys would just eat, sleep, & shag with no thought about the future. If U find the right Mate then 300 years with one is not long. I could go on and ….. :}
@MrKillianmcelroy Oh, man. I just looked at your channel to see who I am dealing with. Yikes! You are barely out of diapers. From the look of your video I do not think you are thinking about your future. Don't get me wrong. Someone your age would find that entertaining and I have no problem with it but you need about 30 more years of maturing before you can understand my statement. I am sure you will then look back at that video and thing WTF was I thinking. Peace on the Streets, Son. ;-}
@eveningbuzz Just because you're 45+ and lack/have lacked ambition in life, doesn't mean others must strictly live in the moment as you have. Not everyone is so shallow. You discard someone's opinions based solely on their musical preferences and age. Nothing else. YOUR opinion can hardly mean anything when your only defense toward dissent is a string of petty ad hominem. You really think your age makes your assertions viable? Well, in your defense, you may just be getting senile. It happens....
@MrK...Look sunshine, your poor government education is showing through in so many ways. I did not say I was 45+. You know nothing of my ambition. I did not say everyone was shallow. I base my opinion of you on your comments and your video. I have no idea of the point you are trying to make with the ad hominem comment. If you think I am 45 and senile then that tells me you are really just out of diapers. It is amazing how defensive you have gotten. That says a lot about a person. You are … :-}
The problem with getting older is that you learn more about how the human race operates (you become more wise). As a result you become more aware of how hopeless it is to produce and retain happy societies. They eventually destroy themselves. So living forever would mean seeing society destroy itself over and over and over again despite your best admonitions. That would be too sad for me. I'll take a normal lifespan over that.
it's actually not impossible to become 150 and stay youthful. I just wrote a research paper on life extension and I was amazed to find MANY scientists in the field of life extension saying that there are people alive today that could live to be 150 or older. I'm not kidding, look up Aubrey de Grey or David sinclair's 2009 TEDMED talk
@Brittanysofficial I am guessing this person is a guy and that he is older so he has heard it all before. What he really wants is just some eye candy to stimulate the brain. Nothing more than that. You would have to be a guy to understand how a pretty girl takes the boredom out of everyday life. daz all he is saying:}
if i lived to be around 300 i would not change much of my life as i would still live my life in the pursuit of a greater understanding of the universe (i'm a physics major :D). although i'd be more than happy to live in immortality as every night i look up to the stars and know that i'll likely never get to see whats really out there, if i could live for thousands of years i would be an astronaut and travel the galaxy.
Brittany, I have those answers at 30. Now I appreciate being human, so I enjoy things (even the boredom) and can safely say it will all be fun at any age. Pick a number and I'll be happy in life and death! Sure, give me a feeble Beetlejuice-worthy corpse of a body and I'll be happy.
If you need a push to the basic human condition problems you posed, study philosophy 101 on general topics like justice and/or nothingness. They all matter and might help you work it all out.
Ok I would love to stay 25 years old and be immortal (as long as I still had my friends and family, lovers etc... ) my morals would probably be much higher, I would get wiser and more spirital and sciencitific, I would find out clean renewable energy, learn how to astroplane, cure HIV,cancer, malaria, sort out the population problems by terraforming other planets. I would not become a monster like lestat!
Ya, you should look into life extension, and you will start to see how possible the impossible now seems. It doesn't seem certain, or even necessarily highly probable, but it no longer seems impossible to live for hundreds of years. That alone is freaking sweet!
The optimal age for me would be 20, if I could know what I know now. If I couldn't retain my knowledge, experience, and wisdom however, let's just make me immortal now and call it a day.
@brittanysofficial i want to live longer because i want to see everything that our species will accomplish. id only want to live as long as i could perfect my arts: drawing, I play many instruments and i want to learn many more. i aso study psychology, zoology/biology, music theory(european and fareast) and a few foreign languages. in addition i play a lot basketball and workout. I guess id keep adding to that list as everything is fascinating. lastly i want to be able to keep working on my farm
the thing I think is funny is that you have so many opinions about things you know nothing about... it really gets to me when people have opinions about things that they know nothing at all about.... you are what? at the most, 20.... and you don't know anything you are talking about. You can't truly know anything until you experience it... and you only have shown me that you don't know shit... and you talk alot about nothing.
the thing I think is funny is that you have so many opinions about things you know nothing about... it really gets to me when people have opinions about things that they know nothing at all about.... you are what? at the most, 20.... and you don't know anything you are talking about. You can't truly know anything until you experience it... and you only have shown me that you don't know shit...
@roninblade7 I'm 22. If you wouldn't mind, could you point out exactly what you had a problem with? I'm well aware of how little I know. I'm concerned that you don't know how little I know that I know, and how little you yourself probably know. So, please, with all the wisdom you must have, would you mind pointing out my faults in detail?
@Brittanysofficial It really wasn't specific to this particular video, but more along the lines of the women in combat, rape being natural, comments... women having babies when not ready... blah blah blah... there's just alot of things that you don't seem to take into consideration, and it seems like you have only one view point, but in reality... people live differently... people do the things that they do. I think it's wrong to judge them, because, you didn't live in their shoes...
@Brittanysofficial Honestly i don't think this person can since they only talk about how little you know, and not why. Yeah there's a limit to how much you can type, but im sure by now, about 5 months later, there should be something correct? :P
@roninblade7 you are some old depsert stupid person who thing the young ppl are dum ! would say get a life but in your case i would say get a death :)
@msms47 LOL, and you are an idiot. First of all, I don't even know what the hell you mean be "depsert" because... that's not even a word. Next, it's "think" not "thing"... I'll give you the "ppl" because obviously it's "cool" to contract words, but really??? it's "dumb" not "dum", you're too lazy to type an extra "b"??? Ok. Learn your own language before you attack my intelligence. Also, I see you're a justin bieber fan... and that pretty much says it all.
@roninblade7 lol wrong and wrong and wrong see u aint any smart as u think first i do not give a fuck about spleeeing and its clear that u geting it .. that enogh for me . seond english aint my first or even second langauge ! 3rd i aint jb fan and u can not even understand video ! 4 u go to ppl channel to judge them ? u can not do it throw thier words ? lol i know xtaly who u are and i did not vist your channel lol ! well gl grnddpa on your nubniss
@msms47 you don't give a fuck about "spleeeing"? ok... you're really just digging a big hole for yourself. Ok, english isn't your native tongue... so how can you even expect to understand what the hell I'm talking about if you can't even spell? you know "exactly" who I am... I think not. I'm someone who fought for this country... and guess what? I'm not an old man. So stop calling me grandpa...or rather "grnddpa"... I'm not even 30.
@msms47 honestly... now that I think about it... I feel sorry for you... so honestly, I no longer wish to argue with you. You know what? you're right and I'm wrong and I hope the best for you in your world... but if you could do me a favor please. Stop attacking english speaking people, until you can actually write and speak english... obviously, your lack of comprehension of the english language just makes you look like an idiot when you can't even spell... I'm not trying to be an asshole.
@roninblade7 Some people just like to talk about the unknown and things that they don't have control of, whether that be just to get other peoples opinions or just to discuss the topic. I know personally I like to discuss the future and things that are out of my control.
Keep in mind centuries ago most people did't get to live past 40; maybe lucky people got to 50 and by then they were all old and useless... Now being 40 means still being able to do things young people do if you have a healthy lifestyle. Maybe when we age to 150 being 80 will be the equivalent to being 40 nowadays as being 40 nowadays is the equivalent of being 25 back in the day... But that would also mean an extra 40 years of work, so fuck it lol
Being "immortal" would require an open mind, the abillity to change your opinions based on the evidence presented to you, you have to change your outlook on the world based on reason and not hold on to outdated views, because they are comfortable. I don't mind not knowing an answer, when we just don't have any data yet, i'd really like to live as long as i want. I like existing, once you are dead there are no more options, you are wiped from the board of existence, nothing i would choose
We have the scientific method now, those vampires are literally scientifically illiterate. I answer your questions. It's not a matter about having all the answers, it's about knowing the questions and having the methodology to approach those questions.
What are morals?
Morals are guidelines conscious system hold that let them coexist with other conscious systems. Some are very obvious some have been very hard fought for over the ages. But they are in principle subject to reason.
I don't think science should be trying to prolong life, there are other issues that are more prominent, sure, we manage to get people to live to the age of 350, but that is all irrelevant compared to what will happen when the Earth just dies, regardless of our age we'll die as well, if we spent the time that we'd theoretically spend trying to prolong age on, say, space travel. It would benefit mankind a whole lot more as a whole. I think so anyway (Even though it'd be bad-ass to live longer)
The trouble with "living longer/younger" is that WOMEN will still be cranking out kids, very FEW men want lots of babies because they are the ones that have to work themselves to death to pay for them. My sister is a classic example, she just cranked them out (4 total) an it's obvious her "Hubby/slave" had no voice in the matter. It's simple math really, every 20 years the population will double, triple, etc. The Earth can't take it.
In a sense we start from death, we live, then go back to death, we may consider living up to 150, 300, 8000 years, whatever but actually we do live 'long' already. Compare us to other creatures, I think only turtles their lifespans exceed ours so in a sense we can be happy with what we have without wanting more. From a theoretical point of view, people are people no matter how old they get you will only have seen more and that may not always be good either.
Nick Bostrom has a great paper entitled "The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant." The fable is an allegory for human culture surrounding death, and essentially argues that human beings find ways of coping with realities they think are unavoidable. Death is something that, for centuries, we've thought is inevitable. To cope we've surrounded death with ideas of honor, glory, sacredness, inevitability, afterlife, etc. Perhaps we should examine the possibility that death is a horrible fate to avoid.
According to Ray Kurzweil, people our age will have the option to transition into immortality. Transition meaning that anti-aging tech will slowly evolve to the point of ensured immortality. He says that even healthy baby boomers might have the option. I will choose the option over death. What if there is no afterlife? I'd rather stick around and perhaps science will prove there is one someday. I won't be restless cuz the speed of tech evolution is increasing, and the future will b amazing.
Hey, i think that aging is not something that is to be looked down upon, but rather something you take for what it is..because reality is that you cant live forever and you WILL grow old and you will die.but looking at it as a negative(and wishing it was something you could put off) isn't something that will help you;i think you should look at the different stages of life as all important and unique there's ups and downs to being young, just as there is to being old, there different experiences.
No matter the age people are they will want to live for longer .. if we lived less or more we would care about life the same, we would always want more and not treasure what they have in their minor life they have now
the real problem with extreme ages among the populace 2 , 3 , 400 etc.. is society isnt structured but if everyone lived that long and society was structured to accommodate those ages it would be fine
Honestly, I would love to live long. I would love to know the most i could, and i honestly love history, so how cool would it be to know the history and be able to attest for it first hand? Imagine how many mysteries would be solved! Cold cases would be solved relatively faster! We could deduce more about life and the origins of the universe! We wouldn't have to bother learning understanding then dying tomorrow! We could solve many issues!
OMG she put in Herbert from Family Guy. Epic. Answers to Qs: 1 yes science prolong, 2 I think I'd be content living for millenia (though I'd pick ~18 not 25, I'm that now, not the greatest). I'm restless already, used to it. It's part of what makes us want to DO things.
Very disappoint in your views Brit, if you don't know the answers to the Qs, search'm. Or just ignore them and find other Qs. Why is ignorance tolerable now but not later?
3: probably UFC/boxing/pro wrestling and crazy sex.
i wouldn't mind what adge i died if i died discovering something even if i couldn't tell anyway one. If i got killed by a vampire i would be shiting myself but i would be so excited knowing i descoved something nobody else nows and something i'd always wondered about. i've always hoped something outside of are world exists and to know that was true even for a second would be worth my life for me though i probably would beg for them to change me before i was killed
If I lived for 300 to thousands of years as a 25 year old, I think it would be hard but still opportunistic. As we get older we grow on people and people grow on us. Since people obviously wouldn't have the same time span of living as you, they'd die off leaving you to mourn. But also, it'd be nice to see the world a little longer than most. Eventually there will be times that Id want to die, and if I couldn't take it as living a regular time span life, most likely commit suicide
If I lived for 1000 yrs with a 25yr old body and wasn't limited financially, basically I would travel to lots of places, go see the world's most amazing places. Then after a while, I would probably want to settle down to learn lots of stuff, become a scientist and come up with amazing world-changing theories, build up a powerbase to change the world.
And I don't think I would ever really get disillusioned and wanna die, because I really want to live long enough for technology to enable long range space exploration, or for benign aliens to contact us and pass down their technology to us. Then off I go, to explore the infinite multiverse!
BTW: You should try reading Kage Baker's Company series. Superbly interesting ideas, centered around time travel and immortal cyborgs.
Really! To live to 300 would open up so much education. At 20 I learned to build houses. big deal huh? then by 40 I had learned how to fill houses and keep them full of happy people. Big deal again. By 50 I finally learned that learning or "Discovery" was what we are doing here in the first place. So Living to 300? To have time to actually prove a fact from theory? Prove that the idiocy of chasing a dollar is about as useful as a dog chasing it's tail? Yep. I would love to live to 300.
@Brittanysofficial I doubt I could add much more than alienbanjopicker as I feel similar, I'm working on treatments or hopefully a cure for osteoarthritis currently though, which has a lot to do with age: Cellulite has a lot in common with osteoarthritis, well a lot more than you'd perhaps previously have thought I won't say any more on that though, either you'll want to know and find out yourself or you'll ask me and I'll feel wanted or something haha :) Peace.
@alienbanjopicker Science is really close to developiong a way to prolong life by 50-100 years. We are even close to completely halting the aging process. But, im pretty sure that you would be close to brain dead if you lived for 300 years. Reason being is that neurons don't regenerate as fast as other cells in your body, and so eventually over time your brain shrinks and you become senile. So if you lived 300 years. Living that long opens up a whole new can of worms
@3dwardcullen69 3d, sorry to burst your bubble but there is no indication we're close to "halting the aging process". We're potentially close to dramatically lengthening the lifespan perhaps due to making repairs. It's actually probably going to be easier to make people younger than it is to stop them from getting old. That doesn't seem to make sense but it has to do with Aubrey Grey's SENS theory which is based on repair of metabolic byproducts rather than halting their production.
@3dwardcullen69 You're probably right. I read an article on this in the national geographic, but I think it said that immortality is the next step after prolonging life. But, we're probably far away from that. We have discovered what makes us age, and the article said something about working on ways to dramatically slow down or even stop the aging process, based on this. I'm not a bio-medical engineer, perhaps you are. I'm just basing my knowledge on that article.
@alienbanjopicker I would not, your body would be so old it would be decomposing before you fuckin died.
and besides most people by the time they turn 85 are senile or insane, at 300 your mind would be lost to the point where you're probably at a comatose state, but you still eat, produce shit and are a drain on the earth.
My future goal is too Self Replicate my own Bone Marrow (StemCells) and then re inject back into my Bloodstream. The main reason we age is due too are S-Cells dropping to low levels.
@MrDonline That's really not it Donline, we haven't narrowed down any 'main reason' here. Plentiful replacement stem cells would certainly help but we also have problems like cancer and removal of inedible wastes our lysosomes can't break down.
I would want to live three lifetimes max because it would soon become a pain in the ass to try and mingle in society. Its interesting to wonder whether you would evolve as an individual and adopt new thinking presented or stay with the same old values you gained during your first 20 odd years.
if I knew i wasn't going to die... I would be terrified because the probability of getting stuck increases to 100 percent. It is guaranteed to happen eventually and i would have to wait hundreds, if not thousands of years to become unstuck. Anyone living forever would have a desire to explore and see everything which would lead to this.
If i was immortal or stuck at age 25 i would invest my money in a big corporation or begin my own corporation and party live life and try to be as rich as possible and have as much fun as possible. Now the questions about God, meaning of life, and whatever last one that was. God i don't believe he exist so I'm not concerned i can't care any less about the issue, meaning of life will an answer change the way i live absolutely not.
Being older doesn't always make one wiser, although I agree youth is wasted on the young. If you had 200 to say 400 years of life ahead, I'd like to think Mankind would have a powerful incentive to solve the problem of how to get on with each other, and not waste those extra years. Also a person of 300 will see someone at 100 as a little immature. Most importantly it would be the death of religion, as no one approaching 400 will want to live any longer, because you'd start to repeat yourself.
Excellent post, you're so articulate and logical in your discussion. I think that science will find a way to prolong life indefinitely (including fertility) when they figure out how cells form, grow and ultimately degrade, being able to artificially re-charge the growth part. Your question about how to live is very interesting since how would you fund 150 years of retirement. Economies would have to change immensely and deaths by accidents would be far worse to those around you than now.
I think that people are prolonging life to the point that our bodies fall apart. People used to live to 30-40 and they died fairly fit, physically. People live to 60-70-80-90 and beyond now, and they can't even move or care for themselves. That shows you that we are forcing our extended lives. Human's aren't meant to live that long.
People are living longer now because of medical advances.
We all basically have the same genetic capability to live as long as our ancestors did several thousand years ago. Very few died for lack of fitness, the no.1 killer now!
We use to die while fit, due to warfare, sickness, childbirth, famine, and religion, conditions that now only affect 3rd World countries and the young.
Eat well and exercise regularly, will help extend your active potential well beyond that age. Our body has many amazing abilities that the young take for granted - until its too late. You can delay the shut down process for many years, and maybe longer as new science discoveries are happening all the time. The question is whether or not it is a good thing to extend human life: a few decades, hundreds of years, or indefinitely (until some unrecoverable accident).
@EvolBob1 I do all of these things, but from my observations of anyone above 60... The human body is not meant to live that long. And there's no changing that.
I'm 61, are you saying I'm not meant to continue living because you wouldn't like it, or u wouldn't do so at that age? If you don't mind me saying so - your observations suck.
I also run 5 miles 4 times a week, sometimes longer, and do around 50 push ups, in fact I'm a lot fitter now than I was at your age. 5 years ago I got exhausted going to the kitchen, and was 100lbs over weight. Now I'm not, and I know because I changed my lifestyle, I will live longer.
@EvolBob1 You should realize there are exceptions to everything, if you truly are the age you say. And don't worry, I believe you. Most people, such as my mother and father (mother died this year of liver failure) do not have that luxury due to poor health from aging and such. My dad was in great shape for his earlier years, but age has crippled him. My grandmother is 80 and in terrific shape, I hope to be like her. There are always exceptions, but they are a minority IMO.
I think science should prolong life I'm all for further enhancing the human experience. I would further educate myself and take my time traveling the world to enjoy every moment spent learning about other cultures and I would use the time that I've gained to help people. No I wouldn't have a problem with the world cycling its self out I chose to live for a thousand years so I would have to except that people I know and loved will die.
I think its logically straight forward given the atheist assumption. If you die and lose conciousness then you wont care about anything at all so why care about not caring?
Belief in having conciousness after death presents a big change beyond your grasp that you are conscious of.
So I think if you believe in an after life then you will worry about death.
i think the world is a little to over populated with humans as is and to prolong age would keep people young longer so i think that our over populated countries such as india china etc would only have even bigger problems
death is a part of life we should all just deal with the cards we are dealt
1: if i lived forever and was invicible i would spend my life serching for something like aliens or the answer to what comes after death because if i had forever i know that i could answer these questions no matter how long it takes i would search and seach until i had the answers.
2: instead of looking at if we lived longer what if we only lived up to out 20s or 30s would we then acctually learn to care more about life and would people be more thoughtful just satying.
to 150 - 200 sure , that being 200 is the same as being 100 today then yes , that would be kinda cool, but immortal NEVER that means glenn beck would stay alive , HELL no
Sex really isn't that important for happiness, emotional and intellectual relationships are much more important I'm aiming for 150, as long as my brain still works and I can interact socially. Also, the best questions have no answers, I am perfectly happy knowing that it's not possible for me to know the answers to many of life's biggest questions.
I would want to live forever. As long as I could choose when to die. I'm sure at some point you would maybe want to die. Or maybe not. I want to do so much with my life and I think I could have a lot more impact on the world if I was able to live an extended amount of time.
I wouldnt wanna be a immortal. Seeing the people you know die and after that you most likely have to get to know a new group of people and you would eventually see them die too. To me that would be kinda sad live. I would wanna live to at least 80 years because then i could see how much the world has changed.
And I guess in a way I do live with the knowledge(not fear) that I will die. Due that knowledge I try to accomplish all I can with each passing day knowing I may not have the chance to do so in the future.
@redflag1992 I agree fully with your statement about anxiety. That anxiety can be crippling. To me life is about the experience, and to live in anxiety is to limit experience. Limiting experience is limiting life itself. For that reason I choose to embrace the time I have without regard for the end of that time. Truly the only fear I have regarding death is the fear of how my death may adversely affect those around me. There will be no consequences to me for my death.
To me the fear of death itself is irrational. Its some thing that you will never be there for. What I mean by this is that for your entire life you will be alive. Up until the very last moment of your conscious existence you will be alive. You will not be consciously present in the instant of your death. So there for there is no reason to fear that which you will not be around to experience.
I personally feel that a desire to live longer would be conditional for me. It would be based on quality of life. If I had to work every day just to get by I don't think I would be interested. If however I was financially well off I would love to live longer. I would enjoy the pursuit of knowledge.
I think alot of people would answer that they would wish to live longer for the wrong reasons. I think their answer would be based not on living due to a thirst for life, but rather a fear of death.
I think I'd like to live longer just to observe humanity and the world in general. If I knew I could die if I wanted to, living for at least a long time would be ok with me, although obviously a lot of people living longer and longer would cause serious problems.
Most of the problems we have, we have because of short sighted solutions that we leave for our children to clean up. This is the only planet we have we can live on (currently), the crap we do now can't continue if want any kind of life worth living.
For example - If you lie, murder, robbery, rape etc, you don't get the extended life pill. If you pollute, burn/clear fell forest, engage in corruption, you sleep in the bed you make.
@EvolBob1 I was thinking more of problems such as overpopulation and food shortage. If people are living longer and having children at the rate they currently do it could get seriously chaotic.
If I had the power to selectively erase my own memories, I could amuse myself watching the same movie over and over and over again for a million years. Just watch it, erase the last 2 hours, and watch it again. That would be great.
If I was to consider living indefinitely, I would not want to maintain the human form. You know, a human brain supported by a human heart and lungs and a liver and a stomach etcetera, doing the same tedious things to maintain the same tedious existence I have now, into the indefinite future. Also, I would want the power to selectively erase my own memories. That would be ESSENTIAL: it would make the difference between wanting to die quickly and being fine after a trillion years.
Depends on the person, do you want to live forever in the name of everlasting pleasure and having fun?Maybe being just a narcissist?. I don't know really if i wanted to live forever and if i could i would like to have the option of killing myself anytime i feel like it, cause in the spectrum of infinity there will be a time when you will know it all and probably live it all so there will be no more to reason to live.
@0oooUooo0 Also what kind of concept are we talking about? me the lone immortal or the whole mankind? Because either of them wont work in the long run.I don't believe,as humans we are mature enough mentally to lead an immortal life. But a small "extension" like a century or two i think it would be always welcome.We are ready for that, given that today's standards demand lots of years for studying, researching etc and many people will probably spent more than the best half their lifes.....
I would only do it if I could take someone with me. The pain of loving someone and watching them die would get really old but just one nice girl to take with me would be so boss.
I would start off by doing two things if I was immortal:
Firstly, I would study things in detail so as to really understand the world (all the sciences, history, economics ect...).
Secondly, I'd work on building up a fortune large enough that I would make the equivalent of at least a million dollars (the equivalent to 2011 dollars that is, I'm sure they'll be inflation) a year just off of the interest on very secure investments.
Being forever young would be great! The acquisition of the knowledge you mentioned might be less important than the process of acquiring that knowledge ("Lord of the Rings" or "Journey to the West" would have been boring if the Ring of Power was destroyed right away, or the Monkey King just grabbed the Sutras and flew back to China with them) That being said, if I was immortal, I'd want to be a scientist rather than, say, in middle management. (That's why I'm studying science) :)
there no point in live for eva if u arnt enjoying life. also what if u get relly bad hert n cant do any think n wont die. i dont mi how old im am when i die as long as i live how i wunt got ppl who care 4 me 4 me.
important, powerful, to live longer, but eventually when he tried to kill himself by baking in the desert he couldn't die and it sucked. He was tired and done and if i lived that long I would be too. I really like life and I hope I'll still be happy when I'm old but the longer you live the more you do wrong, the more guilt and doubt and anger you have. Plus the longer you live the more you have to keep track of. Eventually you'll forget experiences and you'll change so much you may as well be d
@harusume Thanks for commenting! Wow! You've been writing long, well thought out comments in all my videos forever. This one and the comment on my drug video are amazing. Thanks for sharing :)
"Eventually you'll forget experiences and you'll change so much you may as well be d"
I couldn't disagree more. I'm a completely different person from what I was when I was five. That five year old kid doesn't exist, I don't have his memories, I have a very different personality etc.. That takes nothing away from my value of my life today. Why would it be any different with the person I will be, say a thousand or a billion years from now?
@sdrawkcabgnipytmi I'm not saying life isn't valuable, I'm simply saying that the desire to live forever is a desire that can't truly be fulfilled. When I think of living forever I think of staying the same and and when I said you might as well be dead I meant it more as in, like the you that wanted to live forever no longer exists. I wasn't saying a negative or positive thing, just a statement. So basically living forever is impossible to me because even your body could, your mind wouldn't.
That may be true (although I don't think it necessarily is... not completely anyways), but I don't see that as an argument against indefinite life. It may actually turn out that you end up becoming an increasingly wise and all around happy person. I don't accept the premise that life will become worse as you get older. We can't really know what would happen to the mind after thousands of years of life until someone actually becomes that old.
@sdrawkcabgnipytmi Well we may never know. Perhaps if we could live forever everyone would experience it differently. One thing I know is that I personally would feel incredibly lonely and depressed if I were the only one that lived forever as I would outlive all of my contemporaries. One the other hand if everyone could live forever then as I said before we would have to stop procreating because we don't have room for a population increase that would be caused by immortality.
@sdrawkcabgnipytmi I think if we couldn't have new generations we would also be depressed and we would become static as a society, at least culturally and perhaps also in intellectual fields. All around I feel like even if immortality were a realistic dream, it would be a bad idea. And of course I believe that since time will run out anyway eventually, immortality is impossible to achieve and life is life no matter the duration, so to me a person that lives until time ends isn't so different
On that note, really in my opinion, no matter the duration, you will always be a person that's not yet born, that's 25, that's recently dead, or whose long forgotten. Time only seems to happen sequentially because that's how we experience it. So the whole issue of prolonging life feels important but doesn't really matter. Besides as you said, living that long is terrifying. I am also an Anne Rice nerd and I feel like Lestat did all these rash things when he was still a young vamp to become more
in having an army of kids and nieces and nephews and grandkids eventually, the idea of having fewer young people because there's more old people sucks. Personally, I am afraid of death sometimes, but the fact is that people are like made to want things. We want to live longer because we are afraid to die but even if a person lived forever, forever isn't truly forever. Eventually the universe will crunch or fizzle or whatever it ends up doing and time will stop eventually. People from this unive
I think that the problem with living too long is that the world wouldn't change. people from old eras would still be around enforcing old rules based on their own youths. I also think that honestly we have a hard enough time already keeping people alive past a certain age and paying for their living. if the older gen. that lives for a long time were still able to work well that's swell but what about population increase. We would have to cut down on baby making and as a person that's interested
I LOVE this video. For some reason I've thought a lot about being immortal. There's so much I want to do - I want to travel, I want to teach, I want to design things and act and sing and write and...do a lot of stuff. But on the other hand, I would never form emotional attatchments, knowing that people would die so quickly. Eventually months would pass like days, and I'd become disillusioned. I'm just glad I don't ACTUALLY have to worry about immortality, because I'm still not sure about it.
Transmen and transwomen ARE ladies and dudes. To suggest that they don't belong in either (which I don't think you're doing, but just in case) may be offensive to them (being a cis man, I can't speak for them.)
If we're going for inclusivity, you might want to include non-binaries. If you don't already know, non-binaries are people who don't identify with a gender in the male/female gender binary.
@alexQuantizes This is the first time I've heard that term. I read a little about it, I'm confused. Does it hold people to certain gender expectations? Cause that doesn't sound awesome. I love the Transgender community and I support them 100%
@Brittanysofficial - If you're confused, there are plenty of videos about the subject on youtube. Try searching for "genderqueer", "neutrois", "Agender/genderless", "bigender", and "non-binary gender." They should probably help you to understand non-binary genders. Because gender is part of identity, it's more complex than people realize.
Q1: Yeah. In Japan people regularly live healthily over 100 and their economy is going strong. Eventually it would be economically impossible to maintain people to a certain age, and I think that that is the cut-off point when we should stop prolonging life.
Q3: If I were immortal I would study the world for thousands of years because the Earth is big, beautiful and detailed enough to keep me going forever. I believe in heaven however and I can't wait to die and learn physics' mysteries. :D
I would not like to be immortal. my reason for this is because, i still believe something happens when you die. I know your an athiest but what do you believe happens at death? I would hate to live forever and never get to see the ones whom i loved that had pased away, like my father.
3: if i were invincible or something....idk...epic sparkle party? lol
1. Well back when there was essencially no medicinen out there people would only live to like, 25. i think that as medicine continues to prove, the life span will go along with it. So...i guess they should...?
2. i would HATE to be any age for 1000 years. i mean, id make a friend and then they'd get older and id stay the same, then they would get old and leave me behind and you would never trueky be anything but alone. id never want 2 b immortal id like to live a long life but (comment cont.)
Did you know that the body/brain chemistry has cycles? Seven years a popular but unproven belief. To actually say what we would do is irrelevant because we can't imagine what would happen, bad or good. I'd hope that my morals would be more defined at older ages, but I haven't lived them yet. Also, I'd hope at 400 I'd have made a good impact to the world, living wealthy isn't as important to me. I do want some money, enough to be comfortable!
Living forever would most definitely have it's ups and downs.
Say i was 30 forever, old enough to experience some of the finer things in life, but young enough to still have the vitality that young people have. Adapting to things would not be as hard as if I were already old and set in my ways. But I'd live for the moment, because as everything around me changes, fades, and eventually dies, i will be frozen forever. Life will become irrelevant, so I wouldn't care what the next day holds.
Sometimes I find myself thinking about what I would do if one of my parents died. They're not really that old, but it still scares the crap out of me. On a faceless global scale, it makes sense to me that there are better things for us to spend our time and effort on than extending the human life expectancy, but on a personal level there are a lot of people that I would have a hard time living without.
@justinhabit When you get down to it, I would have a hard time coming up with a "rational" reason to keep anyone alive - young or old, but valuing life isn't about reason or logic, it's about valuing life.
There was a time when the average life-span was 30/40 years. Science and medicine have allowed us to extend that; living healthier, longer and more fulfilling lives. When we as a species started to make those advancements all those years ago, we probably had the same kind of questions surrounding our mortality, but it worked out ok :-)
1)Is it good for science.... no, the world is over populated we cant handle more people.
2)Perfect age... uhh i hink about 27 or 28 though... im not totally sure about that.
(I have a degenerative joint disease that age 19, there are some days that i need a wheel chair to be able to go out and DO things and see things, they arent often but they happens, so getting old is a huge fear for me. I have no idea what i will be able to do years from now.)
Point blank. The fewer years of life there are means that each year is more rare and more valuable. The globe isn't expanding, there isn't physically going to be more to explore if the life-span were lengthened. The amount of knowledge that could be learned would and is expanding far beyond our ability to learn it all, even in 300+ years. I say, just improve the overall human condition to its fullest height...and let me be health and ready for sex until a ripe old age.
elrynx2 4 days ago
"I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet; that I haven’t understood enough; that I can’t know enough; that I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn’t have it any other way." - I would want to learn as much as I could. Yes, I would eventually get bored, or go insane and kill myself after a few thousand years. I don't think my morals would change over time though. :P
TheShaitanjr 1 week ago
No.... thank you.
Wouldn't want to live that long.
Juggafreeze2 2 weeks ago
Traditionally, the idea behind the vampire, or any immortal earth dwelling being, is that immortality throws off the shackles of society and allows the monster within everyone to emerge.
dominic0lovati 1 month ago
people grow and change as they age. Buddhism suggests this as a person reaches enlightenment. Enlightenment only comes with knowledge of ones self, and that comes through experience. This leads to something else you mentioned. perception is reality. Expanding life is only the first step. The next is space exploration, which will be affordable in 20 years thanks to the carbon fiber nano tube. After that will be terriforming of Mars. and since we live longer we will be able to see it happen.
AcidReflux27 1 month ago
I think it's a great idea to try to prolong life through scientific means.As long as there's enough food and drink for everyone, it would be great.
I think I'd choose to be 46 years old (my age now) because I know more now than I did yesterday, and I wouldn't wanna lose that.
What I'd do if there was no fear of dying is....erm...probably sit here and make lots of comments on youtube whilst drinking either tea or coffee, and the occasional glass of wine.
ThePurpleHarpoon 2 months ago
If I lived to be 300.... I would be constantly on the run from the govt and other private sectors and being made into a specieman to be used in ungodly told amounts of research and development.
Mulletboi86 2 months ago
I think that prolonging life is a horrible idea, for more then one reason. If we live to, say 150, then the world would be waaaaaaay over populated, then we dont need that long to experence life! If you wanna do something before you get old its called a bucket list. Go do what ever you wanna do! Go skydive, wrie a book, jump off a bridge! Live your life to the fullest because eventually you won't be able to. (Don't jump off the bridge to die... thats a horrible idea) Dont prolong decrepedness!!!
darkaquarose 2 months ago
Hey, I'm 21 today and yet for the past decade (yeup) I've felt and acted a lot older than my age would imply I should. You're right, this whole age thing is so relative. Given 300 years I know exactly the kind of life I would live, but given an uncertain amount of time (roughly 60 to 100 years + or - technology and medicine) I've chosen to live a lot more responsibly and mostly think about my future when I make choices. Some of my friends say I think too much but it's all about perspective!
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Living longer sounds nice but doesn't the passing of older generations help younger generations progress with the dieing of outdated ideas and the embracing of new ones?
misinglink15 2 months ago
I want to become immortal so I can rape every single woman on earth. I would create an industry of rape and hire workers that track ladies who become over 12 years old and bring them into my rape house, line them all up naked, and rape their vaginas one by one. I would train and labor nurses to give birth to millions of my sons and daughters who would be educated in space travel and living in other planets. I would create trillions of humans to rule OVER THE ENTIRE GALAXY!!!
VkyleV 2 months ago
I wish we could live for thousands of years. If you think real long and hard about it, it would make life much better for all.
12dollarsand78cents 2 months ago
TO me ,this idea of living for ever , or prolonging my life is ...stupid.Sorry if i offend anyone...I really don't mean to do that.I'm a 24 years old guy and I have already discovered so much about hte world we live in that It really doesn't matter much if I am dead or alive at the moment i am speaking now.And no..Im not gonna go and kill myself.I think the fact that I had the chance to live is enough..regardless if i live one year more or 1000 years(yes..1000 years...im a vampire fan too :P )
indiana201333 3 months ago
Complex subject matter. I am guessing most men still think they are in their 20s and only the mirror makes them face reality. The issue about living longer is that if you did not age physically then you would have to not age maturity wise otherwise you would not do what you did when you were younger so I don’t know. I know guys would just eat, sleep, & shag with no thought about the future. If U find the right Mate then 300 years with one is not long. I could go on and ….. :}
eveningbuzz 3 months ago
@eveningbuzz
"I know guys would just eat, sleep, & shag with no thought about the future."
I'm not sure you know too much. Sexist and untrue.
MrKillianmcelroy 3 months ago
@MrKillianmcelroy Oh, man. I just looked at your channel to see who I am dealing with. Yikes! You are barely out of diapers. From the look of your video I do not think you are thinking about your future. Don't get me wrong. Someone your age would find that entertaining and I have no problem with it but you need about 30 more years of maturing before you can understand my statement. I am sure you will then look back at that video and thing WTF was I thinking. Peace on the Streets, Son. ;-}
eveningbuzz 3 months ago
@eveningbuzz Just because you're 45+ and lack/have lacked ambition in life, doesn't mean others must strictly live in the moment as you have. Not everyone is so shallow. You discard someone's opinions based solely on their musical preferences and age. Nothing else. YOUR opinion can hardly mean anything when your only defense toward dissent is a string of petty ad hominem. You really think your age makes your assertions viable? Well, in your defense, you may just be getting senile. It happens....
MrKillianmcelroy 3 months ago
@MrK...Look sunshine, your poor government education is showing through in so many ways. I did not say I was 45+. You know nothing of my ambition. I did not say everyone was shallow. I base my opinion of you on your comments and your video. I have no idea of the point you are trying to make with the ad hominem comment. If you think I am 45 and senile then that tells me you are really just out of diapers. It is amazing how defensive you have gotten. That says a lot about a person. You are … :-}
eveningbuzz 3 months ago
The problem with getting older is that you learn more about how the human race operates (you become more wise). As a result you become more aware of how hopeless it is to produce and retain happy societies. They eventually destroy themselves. So living forever would mean seeing society destroy itself over and over and over again despite your best admonitions. That would be too sad for me. I'll take a normal lifespan over that.
bathysphere1 3 months ago
it's actually not impossible to become 150 and stay youthful. I just wrote a research paper on life extension and I was amazed to find MANY scientists in the field of life extension saying that there are people alive today that could live to be 150 or older. I'm not kidding, look up Aubrey de Grey or David sinclair's 2009 TEDMED talk
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Did007z 3 months ago
@Did007z I don't think it's a compliment if you're telling me to shut up....
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@Brittanysofficial I am guessing this person is a guy and that he is older so he has heard it all before. What he really wants is just some eye candy to stimulate the brain. Nothing more than that. You would have to be a guy to understand how a pretty girl takes the boredom out of everyday life. daz all he is saying:}
eveningbuzz 3 months ago
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TheReasonableHuman 3 months ago
and growing old and "deteriorating" shouldn't be a problem, certain technological advances would likely keep you mobile and strong.
r0b0tj0n3s 3 months ago
if i lived to be around 300 i would not change much of my life as i would still live my life in the pursuit of a greater understanding of the universe (i'm a physics major :D). although i'd be more than happy to live in immortality as every night i look up to the stars and know that i'll likely never get to see whats really out there, if i could live for thousands of years i would be an astronaut and travel the galaxy.
r0b0tj0n3s 3 months ago
Extending our life span will be the greatest force for social change.
The thing that will change humanity for ever.
I personally would love to live to be a 1000
tilemacro 3 months ago
Brittany, I have those answers at 30. Now I appreciate being human, so I enjoy things (even the boredom) and can safely say it will all be fun at any age. Pick a number and I'll be happy in life and death! Sure, give me a feeble Beetlejuice-worthy corpse of a body and I'll be happy.
If you need a push to the basic human condition problems you posed, study philosophy 101 on general topics like justice and/or nothingness. They all matter and might help you work it all out.
ybomian 3 months ago
Ok I would love to stay 25 years old and be immortal (as long as I still had my friends and family, lovers etc... ) my morals would probably be much higher, I would get wiser and more spirital and sciencitific, I would find out clean renewable energy, learn how to astroplane, cure HIV,cancer, malaria, sort out the population problems by terraforming other planets. I would not become a monster like lestat!
peteoposso 3 months ago
Ya, you should look into life extension, and you will start to see how possible the impossible now seems. It doesn't seem certain, or even necessarily highly probable, but it no longer seems impossible to live for hundreds of years. That alone is freaking sweet!
The optimal age for me would be 20, if I could know what I know now. If I couldn't retain my knowledge, experience, and wisdom however, let's just make me immortal now and call it a day.
shabido1 3 months ago
@brittanysofficial i want to live longer because i want to see everything that our species will accomplish. id only want to live as long as i could perfect my arts: drawing, I play many instruments and i want to learn many more. i aso study psychology, zoology/biology, music theory(european and fareast) and a few foreign languages. in addition i play a lot basketball and workout. I guess id keep adding to that list as everything is fascinating. lastly i want to be able to keep working on my farm
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the thing I think is funny is that you have so many opinions about things you know nothing about... it really gets to me when people have opinions about things that they know nothing at all about.... you are what? at the most, 20.... and you don't know anything you are talking about. You can't truly know anything until you experience it... and you only have shown me that you don't know shit... and you talk alot about nothing.
roninblade7 3 months ago
the thing I think is funny is that you have so many opinions about things you know nothing about... it really gets to me when people have opinions about things that they know nothing at all about.... you are what? at the most, 20.... and you don't know anything you are talking about. You can't truly know anything until you experience it... and you only have shown me that you don't know shit...
roninblade7 3 months ago
@roninblade7 I'm 22. If you wouldn't mind, could you point out exactly what you had a problem with? I'm well aware of how little I know. I'm concerned that you don't know how little I know that I know, and how little you yourself probably know. So, please, with all the wisdom you must have, would you mind pointing out my faults in detail?
Brittanysofficial 3 months ago
@Brittanysofficial It really wasn't specific to this particular video, but more along the lines of the women in combat, rape being natural, comments... women having babies when not ready... blah blah blah... there's just alot of things that you don't seem to take into consideration, and it seems like you have only one view point, but in reality... people live differently... people do the things that they do. I think it's wrong to judge them, because, you didn't live in their shoes...
roninblade7 3 months ago
I just think that maybe if you were those people, you might have made the exact same choices as those you complain about.
roninblade7 3 months ago
@Brittanysofficial Honestly i don't think this person can since they only talk about how little you know, and not why. Yeah there's a limit to how much you can type, but im sure by now, about 5 months later, there should be something correct? :P
stephencrespo 2 months ago
@roninblade7 you are some old depsert stupid person who thing the young ppl are dum ! would say get a life but in your case i would say get a death :)
msms47 3 months ago
@msms47 LOL, and you are an idiot. First of all, I don't even know what the hell you mean be "depsert" because... that's not even a word. Next, it's "think" not "thing"... I'll give you the "ppl" because obviously it's "cool" to contract words, but really??? it's "dumb" not "dum", you're too lazy to type an extra "b"??? Ok. Learn your own language before you attack my intelligence. Also, I see you're a justin bieber fan... and that pretty much says it all.
roninblade7 3 months ago
@roninblade7 lol wrong and wrong and wrong see u aint any smart as u think first i do not give a fuck about spleeeing and its clear that u geting it .. that enogh for me . seond english aint my first or even second langauge ! 3rd i aint jb fan and u can not even understand video ! 4 u go to ppl channel to judge them ? u can not do it throw thier words ? lol i know xtaly who u are and i did not vist your channel lol ! well gl grnddpa on your nubniss
msms47 3 months ago
@msms47 you don't give a fuck about "spleeeing"? ok... you're really just digging a big hole for yourself. Ok, english isn't your native tongue... so how can you even expect to understand what the hell I'm talking about if you can't even spell? you know "exactly" who I am... I think not. I'm someone who fought for this country... and guess what? I'm not an old man. So stop calling me grandpa...or rather "grnddpa"... I'm not even 30.
roninblade7 3 months ago
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roninblade7 3 months ago
yes... good luck on my "nubniss"... LOL
roninblade7 3 months ago
@msms47 honestly... now that I think about it... I feel sorry for you... so honestly, I no longer wish to argue with you. You know what? you're right and I'm wrong and I hope the best for you in your world... but if you could do me a favor please. Stop attacking english speaking people, until you can actually write and speak english... obviously, your lack of comprehension of the english language just makes you look like an idiot when you can't even spell... I'm not trying to be an asshole.
roninblade7 3 months ago
if you're going to attack people with your words, you definitely need to have the words to do it... just saying.
roninblade7 3 months ago
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@msms47 dumbass
roninblade7 3 months ago
@roninblade7 Some people just like to talk about the unknown and things that they don't have control of, whether that be just to get other peoples opinions or just to discuss the topic. I know personally I like to discuss the future and things that are out of my control.
Arathain 3 months ago
Keep in mind centuries ago most people did't get to live past 40; maybe lucky people got to 50 and by then they were all old and useless... Now being 40 means still being able to do things young people do if you have a healthy lifestyle. Maybe when we age to 150 being 80 will be the equivalent to being 40 nowadays as being 40 nowadays is the equivalent of being 25 back in the day... But that would also mean an extra 40 years of work, so fuck it lol
mhrf90 3 months ago
are you jewish? you're hot
101nick10 3 months ago
Being "immortal" would require an open mind, the abillity to change your opinions based on the evidence presented to you, you have to change your outlook on the world based on reason and not hold on to outdated views, because they are comfortable. I don't mind not knowing an answer, when we just don't have any data yet, i'd really like to live as long as i want. I like existing, once you are dead there are no more options, you are wiped from the board of existence, nothing i would choose
annata12 3 months ago
We have the scientific method now, those vampires are literally scientifically illiterate. I answer your questions. It's not a matter about having all the answers, it's about knowing the questions and having the methodology to approach those questions.
What are morals?
Morals are guidelines conscious system hold that let them coexist with other conscious systems. Some are very obvious some have been very hard fought for over the ages. But they are in principle subject to reason.
annata12 3 months ago
I don't think science should be trying to prolong life, there are other issues that are more prominent, sure, we manage to get people to live to the age of 350, but that is all irrelevant compared to what will happen when the Earth just dies, regardless of our age we'll die as well, if we spent the time that we'd theoretically spend trying to prolong age on, say, space travel. It would benefit mankind a whole lot more as a whole. I think so anyway (Even though it'd be bad-ass to live longer)
UchihaDanny 3 months ago 2
The trouble with "living longer/younger" is that WOMEN will still be cranking out kids, very FEW men want lots of babies because they are the ones that have to work themselves to death to pay for them. My sister is a classic example, she just cranked them out (4 total) an it's obvious her "Hubby/slave" had no voice in the matter. It's simple math really, every 20 years the population will double, triple, etc. The Earth can't take it.
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Space Travel.
Gendo3s2k 3 months ago
In a sense we start from death, we live, then go back to death, we may consider living up to 150, 300, 8000 years, whatever but actually we do live 'long' already. Compare us to other creatures, I think only turtles their lifespans exceed ours so in a sense we can be happy with what we have without wanting more. From a theoretical point of view, people are people no matter how old they get you will only have seen more and that may not always be good either.
diekerel 3 months ago
Nick Bostrom has a great paper entitled "The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant." The fable is an allegory for human culture surrounding death, and essentially argues that human beings find ways of coping with realities they think are unavoidable. Death is something that, for centuries, we've thought is inevitable. To cope we've surrounded death with ideas of honor, glory, sacredness, inevitability, afterlife, etc. Perhaps we should examine the possibility that death is a horrible fate to avoid.
Momentheum 3 months ago
According to Ray Kurzweil, people our age will have the option to transition into immortality. Transition meaning that anti-aging tech will slowly evolve to the point of ensured immortality. He says that even healthy baby boomers might have the option. I will choose the option over death. What if there is no afterlife? I'd rather stick around and perhaps science will prove there is one someday. I won't be restless cuz the speed of tech evolution is increasing, and the future will b amazing.
Momentheum 3 months ago
Hey, i think that aging is not something that is to be looked down upon, but rather something you take for what it is..because reality is that you cant live forever and you WILL grow old and you will die.but looking at it as a negative(and wishing it was something you could put off) isn't something that will help you;i think you should look at the different stages of life as all important and unique there's ups and downs to being young, just as there is to being old, there different experiences.
pwbpub 3 months ago
No matter the age people are they will want to live for longer .. if we lived less or more we would care about life the same, we would always want more and not treasure what they have in their minor life they have now
MrSignalPlus 3 months ago
@MrSignalPlus agreed
33melonpaws77 3 months ago
the real problem with extreme ages among the populace 2 , 3 , 400 etc.. is society isnt structured but if everyone lived that long and society was structured to accommodate those ages it would be fine
TheDevindevine 4 months ago
If the human race lived longer we would be fucked.
Bob1agis 4 months ago
Honestly, I would love to live long. I would love to know the most i could, and i honestly love history, so how cool would it be to know the history and be able to attest for it first hand? Imagine how many mysteries would be solved! Cold cases would be solved relatively faster! We could deduce more about life and the origins of the universe! We wouldn't have to bother learning understanding then dying tomorrow! We could solve many issues!
Thatawkwardguyirl 4 months ago
MYGODYOUARESUCHAFASTSPEAKERYETYOUARESOARTICULAT
GUSRULZ445 4 months ago
Ironically, humans use to live up to almost 1000 years in The Bible.
gattler 4 months ago
OMG she put in Herbert from Family Guy. Epic. Answers to Qs: 1 yes science prolong, 2 I think I'd be content living for millenia (though I'd pick ~18 not 25, I'm that now, not the greatest). I'm restless already, used to it. It's part of what makes us want to DO things.
Very disappoint in your views Brit, if you don't know the answers to the Qs, search'm. Or just ignore them and find other Qs. Why is ignorance tolerable now but not later?
3: probably UFC/boxing/pro wrestling and crazy sex.
tyciol 4 months ago
i wouldn't mind what adge i died if i died discovering something even if i couldn't tell anyway one. If i got killed by a vampire i would be shiting myself but i would be so excited knowing i descoved something nobody else nows and something i'd always wondered about. i've always hoped something outside of are world exists and to know that was true even for a second would be worth my life for me though i probably would beg for them to change me before i was killed
PSTTpsttHEY 4 months ago
If I lived for 300 to thousands of years as a 25 year old, I think it would be hard but still opportunistic. As we get older we grow on people and people grow on us. Since people obviously wouldn't have the same time span of living as you, they'd die off leaving you to mourn. But also, it'd be nice to see the world a little longer than most. Eventually there will be times that Id want to die, and if I couldn't take it as living a regular time span life, most likely commit suicide
GoLucky1236 4 months ago
If I lived for 1000 yrs with a 25yr old body and wasn't limited financially, basically I would travel to lots of places, go see the world's most amazing places. Then after a while, I would probably want to settle down to learn lots of stuff, become a scientist and come up with amazing world-changing theories, build up a powerbase to change the world.
crandf 4 months ago
And I don't think I would ever really get disillusioned and wanna die, because I really want to live long enough for technology to enable long range space exploration, or for benign aliens to contact us and pass down their technology to us. Then off I go, to explore the infinite multiverse!
BTW: You should try reading Kage Baker's Company series. Superbly interesting ideas, centered around time travel and immortal cyborgs.
crandf 4 months ago
Really! To live to 300 would open up so much education. At 20 I learned to build houses. big deal huh? then by 40 I had learned how to fill houses and keep them full of happy people. Big deal again. By 50 I finally learned that learning or "Discovery" was what we are doing here in the first place. So Living to 300? To have time to actually prove a fact from theory? Prove that the idiocy of chasing a dollar is about as useful as a dog chasing it's tail? Yep. I would love to live to 300.
alienbanjopicker 4 months ago 8
@alienbanjopicker I like that way of thinking about it. Thanks for sharing.
Brittanysofficial 4 months ago 7
@Brittanysofficial I doubt I could add much more than alienbanjopicker as I feel similar, I'm working on treatments or hopefully a cure for osteoarthritis currently though, which has a lot to do with age: Cellulite has a lot in common with osteoarthritis, well a lot more than you'd perhaps previously have thought I won't say any more on that though, either you'll want to know and find out yourself or you'll ask me and I'll feel wanted or something haha :) Peace.
DrRegnig 2 months ago
@alienbanjopicker Science is really close to developiong a way to prolong life by 50-100 years. We are even close to completely halting the aging process. But, im pretty sure that you would be close to brain dead if you lived for 300 years. Reason being is that neurons don't regenerate as fast as other cells in your body, and so eventually over time your brain shrinks and you become senile. So if you lived 300 years. Living that long opens up a whole new can of worms
3dwardcullen69 4 months ago
@3dwardcullen69 3d, sorry to burst your bubble but there is no indication we're close to "halting the aging process". We're potentially close to dramatically lengthening the lifespan perhaps due to making repairs. It's actually probably going to be easier to make people younger than it is to stop them from getting old. That doesn't seem to make sense but it has to do with Aubrey Grey's SENS theory which is based on repair of metabolic byproducts rather than halting their production.
tyciol 4 months ago
@3dwardcullen69 You're probably right. I read an article on this in the national geographic, but I think it said that immortality is the next step after prolonging life. But, we're probably far away from that. We have discovered what makes us age, and the article said something about working on ways to dramatically slow down or even stop the aging process, based on this. I'm not a bio-medical engineer, perhaps you are. I'm just basing my knowledge on that article.
3dwardcullen69 4 months ago
@alienbanjopicker I would not, your body would be so old it would be decomposing before you fuckin died.
and besides most people by the time they turn 85 are senile or insane, at 300 your mind would be lost to the point where you're probably at a comatose state, but you still eat, produce shit and are a drain on the earth.
crackerz99 3 months ago
We can live longer!
My future goal is too Self Replicate my own Bone Marrow (StemCells) and then re inject back into my Bloodstream. The main reason we age is due too are S-Cells dropping to low levels.
MrDonline 5 months ago
@MrDonline That's really not it Donline, we haven't narrowed down any 'main reason' here. Plentiful replacement stem cells would certainly help but we also have problems like cancer and removal of inedible wastes our lysosomes can't break down.
tyciol 4 months ago
I would want to live three lifetimes max because it would soon become a pain in the ass to try and mingle in society. Its interesting to wonder whether you would evolve as an individual and adopt new thinking presented or stay with the same old values you gained during your first 20 odd years.
Zadeass 5 months ago
if I knew i wasn't going to die... I would be terrified because the probability of getting stuck increases to 100 percent. It is guaranteed to happen eventually and i would have to wait hundreds, if not thousands of years to become unstuck. Anyone living forever would have a desire to explore and see everything which would lead to this.
Zadeass 5 months ago
If i was immortal or stuck at age 25 i would invest my money in a big corporation or begin my own corporation and party live life and try to be as rich as possible and have as much fun as possible. Now the questions about God, meaning of life, and whatever last one that was. God i don't believe he exist so I'm not concerned i can't care any less about the issue, meaning of life will an answer change the way i live absolutely not.
Tethloach1 5 months ago
Being older doesn't always make one wiser, although I agree youth is wasted on the young. If you had 200 to say 400 years of life ahead, I'd like to think Mankind would have a powerful incentive to solve the problem of how to get on with each other, and not waste those extra years. Also a person of 300 will see someone at 100 as a little immature. Most importantly it would be the death of religion, as no one approaching 400 will want to live any longer, because you'd start to repeat yourself.
EvolBob1 5 months ago
Excellent post, you're so articulate and logical in your discussion. I think that science will find a way to prolong life indefinitely (including fertility) when they figure out how cells form, grow and ultimately degrade, being able to artificially re-charge the growth part. Your question about how to live is very interesting since how would you fund 150 years of retirement. Economies would have to change immensely and deaths by accidents would be far worse to those around you than now.
PositiveThinker72 5 months ago
I think that people are prolonging life to the point that our bodies fall apart. People used to live to 30-40 and they died fairly fit, physically. People live to 60-70-80-90 and beyond now, and they can't even move or care for themselves. That shows you that we are forcing our extended lives. Human's aren't meant to live that long.
iAMVyt 6 months ago
@iAMVyt
People are living longer now because of medical advances.
We all basically have the same genetic capability to live as long as our ancestors did several thousand years ago. Very few died for lack of fitness, the no.1 killer now!
We use to die while fit, due to warfare, sickness, childbirth, famine, and religion, conditions that now only affect 3rd World countries and the young.
EvolBob1 5 months ago
@EvolBob1 I know that, but that doesn't change the fact that beyond the age of 60, many things in the body begin to shut down.
iAMVyt 5 months ago
@iAMVyt
Eat well and exercise regularly, will help extend your active potential well beyond that age. Our body has many amazing abilities that the young take for granted - until its too late. You can delay the shut down process for many years, and maybe longer as new science discoveries are happening all the time. The question is whether or not it is a good thing to extend human life: a few decades, hundreds of years, or indefinitely (until some unrecoverable accident).
Some will, some wont.
EvolBob1 5 months ago
@EvolBob1 I do all of these things, but from my observations of anyone above 60... The human body is not meant to live that long. And there's no changing that.
iAMVyt 5 months ago
@iAMVyt
I'm 61, are you saying I'm not meant to continue living because you wouldn't like it, or u wouldn't do so at that age? If you don't mind me saying so - your observations suck.
I also run 5 miles 4 times a week, sometimes longer, and do around 50 push ups, in fact I'm a lot fitter now than I was at your age. 5 years ago I got exhausted going to the kitchen, and was 100lbs over weight. Now I'm not, and I know because I changed my lifestyle, I will live longer.
EvolBob1 5 months ago
@EvolBob1 You should realize there are exceptions to everything, if you truly are the age you say. And don't worry, I believe you. Most people, such as my mother and father (mother died this year of liver failure) do not have that luxury due to poor health from aging and such. My dad was in great shape for his earlier years, but age has crippled him. My grandmother is 80 and in terrific shape, I hope to be like her. There are always exceptions, but they are a minority IMO.
iAMVyt 5 months ago
I think science should prolong life I'm all for further enhancing the human experience. I would further educate myself and take my time traveling the world to enjoy every moment spent learning about other cultures and I would use the time that I've gained to help people. No I wouldn't have a problem with the world cycling its self out I chose to live for a thousand years so I would have to except that people I know and loved will die.
Turbine68 6 months ago
shes funny
AlmightyMacky 6 months ago
I think its logically straight forward given the atheist assumption. If you die and lose conciousness then you wont care about anything at all so why care about not caring?
Belief in having conciousness after death presents a big change beyond your grasp that you are conscious of.
So I think if you believe in an after life then you will worry about death.
Dolphidood 6 months ago
Life's a bitch.
KrfNYC2 6 months ago
i think the world is a little to over populated with humans as is and to prolong age would keep people young longer so i think that our over populated countries such as india china etc would only have even bigger problems
death is a part of life we should all just deal with the cards we are dealt
Gobln15 6 months ago
i have 2 things to say
1: if i lived forever and was invicible i would spend my life serching for something like aliens or the answer to what comes after death because if i had forever i know that i could answer these questions no matter how long it takes i would search and seach until i had the answers.
2: instead of looking at if we lived longer what if we only lived up to out 20s or 30s would we then acctually learn to care more about life and would people be more thoughtful just satying.
jessebrown1996 6 months ago
to 150 - 200 sure , that being 200 is the same as being 100 today then yes , that would be kinda cool, but immortal NEVER that means glenn beck would stay alive , HELL no
machielste1 6 months ago
Sex really isn't that important for happiness, emotional and intellectual relationships are much more important I'm aiming for 150, as long as my brain still works and I can interact socially. Also, the best questions have no answers, I am perfectly happy knowing that it's not possible for me to know the answers to many of life's biggest questions.
mith59 6 months ago
I would want to live forever. As long as I could choose when to die. I'm sure at some point you would maybe want to die. Or maybe not. I want to do so much with my life and I think I could have a lot more impact on the world if I was able to live an extended amount of time.
unchartedexe 6 months ago
I wouldnt wanna be a immortal. Seeing the people you know die and after that you most likely have to get to know a new group of people and you would eventually see them die too. To me that would be kinda sad live. I would wanna live to at least 80 years because then i could see how much the world has changed.
FinTheDew 6 months ago
And I guess in a way I do live with the knowledge(not fear) that I will die. Due that knowledge I try to accomplish all I can with each passing day knowing I may not have the chance to do so in the future.
adamshumard 6 months ago
@redflag1992 I agree fully with your statement about anxiety. That anxiety can be crippling. To me life is about the experience, and to live in anxiety is to limit experience. Limiting experience is limiting life itself. For that reason I choose to embrace the time I have without regard for the end of that time. Truly the only fear I have regarding death is the fear of how my death may adversely affect those around me. There will be no consequences to me for my death.
adamshumard 6 months ago
To me the fear of death itself is irrational. Its some thing that you will never be there for. What I mean by this is that for your entire life you will be alive. Up until the very last moment of your conscious existence you will be alive. You will not be consciously present in the instant of your death. So there for there is no reason to fear that which you will not be around to experience.
adamshumard 6 months ago
I personally feel that a desire to live longer would be conditional for me. It would be based on quality of life. If I had to work every day just to get by I don't think I would be interested. If however I was financially well off I would love to live longer. I would enjoy the pursuit of knowledge.
I think alot of people would answer that they would wish to live longer for the wrong reasons. I think their answer would be based not on living due to a thirst for life, but rather a fear of death.
adamshumard 6 months ago
I think I'd like to live longer just to observe humanity and the world in general. If I knew I could die if I wanted to, living for at least a long time would be ok with me, although obviously a lot of people living longer and longer would cause serious problems.
borednerd74 7 months ago
@borednerd74
Thats my point, the serious problems get solved.
Most of the problems we have, we have because of short sighted solutions that we leave for our children to clean up. This is the only planet we have we can live on (currently), the crap we do now can't continue if want any kind of life worth living.
For example - If you lie, murder, robbery, rape etc, you don't get the extended life pill. If you pollute, burn/clear fell forest, engage in corruption, you sleep in the bed you make.
EvolBob1 5 months ago
@EvolBob1 I was thinking more of problems such as overpopulation and food shortage. If people are living longer and having children at the rate they currently do it could get seriously chaotic.
borednerd74 5 months ago
@borednerd74
There is a 500 character limit, so I didn't go into detail.
Reread my post, I think it answers your question.
EvolBob1 5 months ago
If I had the power to selectively erase my own memories, I could amuse myself watching the same movie over and over and over again for a million years. Just watch it, erase the last 2 hours, and watch it again. That would be great.
medexamtoolsdotcom 7 months ago
If I was to consider living indefinitely, I would not want to maintain the human form. You know, a human brain supported by a human heart and lungs and a liver and a stomach etcetera, doing the same tedious things to maintain the same tedious existence I have now, into the indefinite future. Also, I would want the power to selectively erase my own memories. That would be ESSENTIAL: it would make the difference between wanting to die quickly and being fine after a trillion years.
medexamtoolsdotcom 7 months ago
Depends on the person, do you want to live forever in the name of everlasting pleasure and having fun?Maybe being just a narcissist?. I don't know really if i wanted to live forever and if i could i would like to have the option of killing myself anytime i feel like it, cause in the spectrum of infinity there will be a time when you will know it all and probably live it all so there will be no more to reason to live.
0oooUooo0 7 months ago
@0oooUooo0 Also what kind of concept are we talking about? me the lone immortal or the whole mankind? Because either of them wont work in the long run.I don't believe,as humans we are mature enough mentally to lead an immortal life. But a small "extension" like a century or two i think it would be always welcome.We are ready for that, given that today's standards demand lots of years for studying, researching etc and many people will probably spent more than the best half their lifes.....
0oooUooo0 7 months ago
@0oooUooo0 just to get out of college and a good decade to get a solid job. So yeah personally i woundnt mind an extra century.
0oooUooo0 7 months ago
I'd get bored of living. I woudln't really wanna survive over 80 something.
ArghCake 7 months ago
I would only do it if I could take someone with me. The pain of loving someone and watching them die would get really old but just one nice girl to take with me would be so boss.
prozacpacman 7 months ago
I would start off by doing two things if I was immortal:
Firstly, I would study things in detail so as to really understand the world (all the sciences, history, economics ect...).
Secondly, I'd work on building up a fortune large enough that I would make the equivalent of at least a million dollars (the equivalent to 2011 dollars that is, I'm sure they'll be inflation) a year just off of the interest on very secure investments.
sdrawkcabgnipytmi 7 months ago
Being forever young would be great! The acquisition of the knowledge you mentioned might be less important than the process of acquiring that knowledge ("Lord of the Rings" or "Journey to the West" would have been boring if the Ring of Power was destroyed right away, or the Monkey King just grabbed the Sutras and flew back to China with them) That being said, if I was immortal, I'd want to be a scientist rather than, say, in middle management. (That's why I'm studying science) :)
Quintopex 7 months ago
Life is one huge chore. Even 40 years is way too long
MinisterMenace 7 months ago
there no point in live for eva if u arnt enjoying life. also what if u get relly bad hert n cant do any think n wont die. i dont mi how old im am when i die as long as i live how i wunt got ppl who care 4 me 4 me.
philpott1234567890 7 months ago
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harusume 7 months ago
important, powerful, to live longer, but eventually when he tried to kill himself by baking in the desert he couldn't die and it sucked. He was tired and done and if i lived that long I would be too. I really like life and I hope I'll still be happy when I'm old but the longer you live the more you do wrong, the more guilt and doubt and anger you have. Plus the longer you live the more you have to keep track of. Eventually you'll forget experiences and you'll change so much you may as well be d
harusume 7 months ago
@harusume Thanks for commenting! Wow! You've been writing long, well thought out comments in all my videos forever. This one and the comment on my drug video are amazing. Thanks for sharing :)
Brittanysofficial 7 months ago
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harusume 7 months ago
@harusume
"Eventually you'll forget experiences and you'll change so much you may as well be d"
I couldn't disagree more. I'm a completely different person from what I was when I was five. That five year old kid doesn't exist, I don't have his memories, I have a very different personality etc.. That takes nothing away from my value of my life today. Why would it be any different with the person I will be, say a thousand or a billion years from now?
sdrawkcabgnipytmi 7 months ago
@sdrawkcabgnipytmi I'm not saying life isn't valuable, I'm simply saying that the desire to live forever is a desire that can't truly be fulfilled. When I think of living forever I think of staying the same and and when I said you might as well be dead I meant it more as in, like the you that wanted to live forever no longer exists. I wasn't saying a negative or positive thing, just a statement. So basically living forever is impossible to me because even your body could, your mind wouldn't.
harusume 7 months ago
@harusume
That may be true (although I don't think it necessarily is... not completely anyways), but I don't see that as an argument against indefinite life. It may actually turn out that you end up becoming an increasingly wise and all around happy person. I don't accept the premise that life will become worse as you get older. We can't really know what would happen to the mind after thousands of years of life until someone actually becomes that old.
sdrawkcabgnipytmi 7 months ago
@sdrawkcabgnipytmi Well we may never know. Perhaps if we could live forever everyone would experience it differently. One thing I know is that I personally would feel incredibly lonely and depressed if I were the only one that lived forever as I would outlive all of my contemporaries. One the other hand if everyone could live forever then as I said before we would have to stop procreating because we don't have room for a population increase that would be caused by immortality.
harusume 6 months ago
@sdrawkcabgnipytmi I think if we couldn't have new generations we would also be depressed and we would become static as a society, at least culturally and perhaps also in intellectual fields. All around I feel like even if immortality were a realistic dream, it would be a bad idea. And of course I believe that since time will run out anyway eventually, immortality is impossible to achieve and life is life no matter the duration, so to me a person that lives until time ends isn't so different
harusume 6 months ago
@sdrawkcabgnipytmi from one that lives for an hour. Time is relative.
harusume 6 months ago
On that note, really in my opinion, no matter the duration, you will always be a person that's not yet born, that's 25, that's recently dead, or whose long forgotten. Time only seems to happen sequentially because that's how we experience it. So the whole issue of prolonging life feels important but doesn't really matter. Besides as you said, living that long is terrifying. I am also an Anne Rice nerd and I feel like Lestat did all these rash things when he was still a young vamp to become more
harusume 7 months ago
@harusume Who's*
harusume 7 months ago
rse can only exist in this universe.
harusume 7 months ago
in having an army of kids and nieces and nephews and grandkids eventually, the idea of having fewer young people because there's more old people sucks. Personally, I am afraid of death sometimes, but the fact is that people are like made to want things. We want to live longer because we are afraid to die but even if a person lived forever, forever isn't truly forever. Eventually the universe will crunch or fizzle or whatever it ends up doing and time will stop eventually. People from this unive
harusume 7 months ago
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fuck1929 7 months ago
I think that the problem with living too long is that the world wouldn't change. people from old eras would still be around enforcing old rules based on their own youths. I also think that honestly we have a hard enough time already keeping people alive past a certain age and paying for their living. if the older gen. that lives for a long time were still able to work well that's swell but what about population increase. We would have to cut down on baby making and as a person that's interested
harusume 7 months ago
hey, brittany, tomorrow morning, do you want me to call you or nudge you? ;)
adoorableknobs 7 months ago
@adoorableknobs Tomorrow? Why tomorrow?
Brittanysofficial 7 months ago
@Brittanysofficial Because it's past his bedtime.
JAWZxz 5 months ago
I LOVE this video. For some reason I've thought a lot about being immortal. There's so much I want to do - I want to travel, I want to teach, I want to design things and act and sing and write and...do a lot of stuff. But on the other hand, I would never form emotional attatchments, knowing that people would die so quickly. Eventually months would pass like days, and I'd become disillusioned. I'm just glad I don't ACTUALLY have to worry about immortality, because I'm still not sure about it.
MorbidMandy422 7 months ago
oh so we should kill old people uh
canderson2750 7 months ago
@canderson2750 No killing old people!
Brittanysofficial 7 months ago
@Brittanysofficial no killing anyone, sleep with me instead!
adoorableknobs 7 months ago
@adoorableknobs haha No, no killing people :) Sleeping with someone is a much better pass time.
Brittanysofficial 7 months ago
MAN, I love your thinking....
I subscribed. ;)
Juggafreeze2 7 months ago
@Juggafreeze2 YAY!
Brittanysofficial 7 months ago
About, "ladies, dudes, and trannies."
Transmen and transwomen ARE ladies and dudes. To suggest that they don't belong in either (which I don't think you're doing, but just in case) may be offensive to them (being a cis man, I can't speak for them.)
If we're going for inclusivity, you might want to include non-binaries. If you don't already know, non-binaries are people who don't identify with a gender in the male/female gender binary.
alexQuantizes 7 months ago
@alexQuantizes I don't mean it that way. A tranny asked me to represent them, so I am :)
Brittanysofficial 7 months ago
@Brittanysofficial - Would you mind if I asked you to represent non-binaries as well?
alexQuantizes 7 months ago
@alexQuantizes This is the first time I've heard that term. I read a little about it, I'm confused. Does it hold people to certain gender expectations? Cause that doesn't sound awesome. I love the Transgender community and I support them 100%
Brittanysofficial 7 months ago
@Brittanysofficial - If you're confused, there are plenty of videos about the subject on youtube. Try searching for "genderqueer", "neutrois", "Agender/genderless", "bigender", and "non-binary gender." They should probably help you to understand non-binary genders. Because gender is part of identity, it's more complex than people realize.
alexQuantizes 7 months ago
Q1: Yeah. In Japan people regularly live healthily over 100 and their economy is going strong. Eventually it would be economically impossible to maintain people to a certain age, and I think that that is the cut-off point when we should stop prolonging life.
Q3: If I were immortal I would study the world for thousands of years because the Earth is big, beautiful and detailed enough to keep me going forever. I believe in heaven however and I can't wait to die and learn physics' mysteries. :D
IamGilgamesh666 7 months ago
I would not like to be immortal. my reason for this is because, i still believe something happens when you die. I know your an athiest but what do you believe happens at death? I would hate to live forever and never get to see the ones whom i loved that had pased away, like my father.
3: if i were invincible or something....idk...epic sparkle party? lol
FluffyPuff16 7 months ago
1. Well back when there was essencially no medicinen out there people would only live to like, 25. i think that as medicine continues to prove, the life span will go along with it. So...i guess they should...?
2. i would HATE to be any age for 1000 years. i mean, id make a friend and then they'd get older and id stay the same, then they would get old and leave me behind and you would never trueky be anything but alone. id never want 2 b immortal id like to live a long life but (comment cont.)
FluffyPuff16 7 months ago
Did you know that the body/brain chemistry has cycles? Seven years a popular but unproven belief. To actually say what we would do is irrelevant because we can't imagine what would happen, bad or good. I'd hope that my morals would be more defined at older ages, but I haven't lived them yet. Also, I'd hope at 400 I'd have made a good impact to the world, living wealthy isn't as important to me. I do want some money, enough to be comfortable!
fujibuds 7 months ago
Living forever would most definitely have it's ups and downs.
Say i was 30 forever, old enough to experience some of the finer things in life, but young enough to still have the vitality that young people have. Adapting to things would not be as hard as if I were already old and set in my ways. But I'd live for the moment, because as everything around me changes, fades, and eventually dies, i will be frozen forever. Life will become irrelevant, so I wouldn't care what the next day holds.
Krayon66 7 months ago
Sometimes I find myself thinking about what I would do if one of my parents died. They're not really that old, but it still scares the crap out of me. On a faceless global scale, it makes sense to me that there are better things for us to spend our time and effort on than extending the human life expectancy, but on a personal level there are a lot of people that I would have a hard time living without.
justinhabit 7 months ago
@justinhabit When you get down to it, I would have a hard time coming up with a "rational" reason to keep anyone alive - young or old, but valuing life isn't about reason or logic, it's about valuing life.
justinhabit 7 months ago
There was a time when the average life-span was 30/40 years. Science and medicine have allowed us to extend that; living healthier, longer and more fulfilling lives. When we as a species started to make those advancements all those years ago, we probably had the same kind of questions surrounding our mortality, but it worked out ok :-)
rossexton 7 months ago
1)Is it good for science.... no, the world is over populated we cant handle more people.
2)Perfect age... uhh i hink about 27 or 28 though... im not totally sure about that.
(I have a degenerative joint disease that age 19, there are some days that i need a wheel chair to be able to go out and DO things and see things, they arent often but they happens, so getting old is a huge fear for me. I have no idea what i will be able to do years from now.)
3) Travel, learn, see, hear, smell, experience.
TheCassiFish 7 months ago
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