@sooseiji That's a very naive attitude. In the end, who knows how you'll feel about your wife in ten years? Maybe you'll be divorced and remarried with three new kids. Who knows? In the end something else might happen that makes you not want to live as long as your wife, or something might happen that will make you want to live longer (after all there are many things and causes to fight and live for, just look at James Randi for example).
@damillionmalania I was speaking more in terms of old age. I wouldn't really want to live to 157 years-old if I had to spend the last 50 years depressed due to losing my wife (first wife or otherwise). Other people may do something career related, change the world, whatever. All I want is to get married, have kids, live comfortably. I figure I'd have to spend a year or two alone in the end, during that time I would write, paint, etc. That may not be what will happen, but that is what I want.
Quality of life is much more important than longgevity. everyone keeps going on about "long life" yet do they concider that if you lived to be 100 that life quality might be drastically reduced, the real question should be, what QUALITY of life do you want, as I say, I would rather only live to 40 and be happy and healthy those 40 years then to fall ill young and suffer for another 80+ years, sometime death is a better option, you can't escape it so you may as well acept it.
I would do it, if I was happy and healthy, QUALITY of life is probualy more important than life it's self. I would like to live that long if my body was healthy and able and I hade no finacial debt or other problems. I would rather die at 40 and have hade a happy life then go on the live to over 100 confined to a whealchair. How come it's only poor countries that seem to have these anciet people? Surley the richer countries with better life stley would harbour more oldies?
This woman EXAGGERATED HER AGE. There is no way her nor her daughter are the ages that they claim. The oldest person ever to live was Jeanne Louise Calment of France (February 21, 1875-August 4, 1997) aged 122 years, 164 days. She was a fully documented supercentenarian.
@CrazyCoyote100 Amasing, thats like having someone who was 100 in 1989 and still having time to live. 122 is amazing, 157 is just silly. Notice how it's always really poor countiries that make these claims?
My grandfather is in his 90s and has used computers all his life. He spends a lot of his day on the computer. I'd love to live to be 100 and beyond as I could do so much with my life and witness great technological development and new discoveries.
That's very interesting. When you say that he used computers all his life, do you mean to say that he worked as a "computer" early in his life, back when that term was used to describe the operator of a difference engine or programmable computer, rather than the machine itself? Or did he merely have access to abaci or mechanical desktop calculators or the like for the early years, and then to more advanced hardware when such became commercially viable?
@PanzerDivisionBOM I didn't say he worked "as a computer". I said he has used computers throughout his life, i.e. throughout his career. He worked for Kodak and had to use the very large computers they had in earlier times and gradually smaller and more modern computers as times went by. And when personal computers became available, he purchased a personal computer and has always bought newer and newer computers up to the present day.
Heck yeah, I would totally do it! My great-grandmother is 91, of sound mind, and more mobile than a lot of people 20 years younger than her. I showed her how to use a Droid last time we met up. And I'm sure I could invent some gravity-defying hover chair in the 130 years between now and then. Who wouldn't want one of those?
Hell, I'd love to live to be that old. Think of everything she's seen and experienced. Even in the later shitty years you could just watch TV or something.
I'd like to experience clean air and water again, or a generally better global environment, be involved with projects that can take around 50 years or even more.
I wouldn't cause I would see all my friends die as I live. I would also see how the world gets more fucked up by each day and die of depression instead of a heart-attack like I should.
If I were 157, I could imagine my body would suck. If I'd foreseen this, I'd want an exoskeleton suit similar to the Hal 5 made for my personal use, and I'd ,most likely work with scientists as best I could to improve human longevity, and slowing the process of aging. If I could foresee this all, I would have invested a ridiculous sum of money to earn interest off of it to pay for said stuff.
@justicetrooper It's body reformation that I'd worry about most off, exoskeleton would allow my body worsen and deteriorate faster due to lack of physical energy exerted while relying more on a mechanical operative. Especially a machine that may be hard to repair in itself if it were so advanced in a less advanced culture that is more susceptible to be expensive to repair/reproduce parts.
@XaneCrazy I see. I'd probably only use it when out and about. Some form of exercise would be a necessity to maintain the body that long. It'd just be the icing on the cake that'd prevent me from being a weakling.
Hell yes! I could make a lot of money selling my story. My "secret". Or I could meet so many people. I could teach so many people and help them gain a better understanding of life because living to be 157... you must gain a lot of insight. I am only 21 and I make realizations about life all the time. I get a moment of clarity about once or twice a month. Imagine that times 8! :O
I would live as long as possible if I could be of sound mind and body. After all, the evidence suggests this is the only life we get and it's all the better if I can make it last longer.
@gatorfresh Um 150 years ago.... No birth Certificates...... Maybe your joking. People shouldn't be that dumb. Either way your joke/sarcasm sucks and 7 people are just as lame.
Man you have the worst sarcasm ever. It neither bites nor humors. It just makes me disappointed. Do I believe it for sure. No. Do I think it impossible. No. Age is a combination of dozens of factors within and outside a persons control. To say it is impossible when you have 90-100 year old people who smoked or chewed tobacco and drank. She could be that 1 among billions that exceeds imagination. Like people with IQ's over 200 except she just lived forever.
why are people believing this garbage... stop posting about this fake shit and post about Lady Gaga's new bra or something... This is just as bad as reporting Big Foot sightings....
I dont know what will happen years from now, but as long as my body works without any machinery, and as long as I have got a friend in the world... why not, I guess.
I would TOTALLY live to be 157 if I was still in good physical shape and of sound mind. Think of all the knowledge and wisdom you could pass on to your younger peers.
Although I highly doubt that is true, this brings up the idea of medical and technological sciences being able to make people immortal. What do you think about? Do you think that we should wait until we have colonized other planets so we don't overpopulate? Do you think that people should have to wait till a certain age to make the decision? Would human euthanasia be OK when people are finally done with livign? Is there a fear of harmful people with immortality?
Hmm, well if you do, obviously you're making out like a bandit with regard to Social Security. But in addition, if your extra years are all miserable because your body has broken down ... then no way! But if we assume the retirement age and your ACTIVE, enjoyable years are proportionately raised ... then heck yeah! Life is good, enjoy it while you can.
Sure I would love to live so long. No matter how things seem in America now, I can't believe that so many self proclaimed patriots and "rational" people are spouting the most absurd chicken little predictions about the US. Guess what, things are that bad!
no, even being of sound mind and agood heart, the human body is still deteriorating, not a day past 80 for me, If I haven't lived a full life by then well at that point I'm just friggen done.... 59 years later, FOR GOD"S SAKE LET ME LIVE ANOTHER YEAR!
I'm 35 and considering the U.S. will be totally bankrupt by the time I am 57 (actually a bit later, but play along), I don't think I'd even want to live through another hundred years of that.
BEAUT: I see your point, but most European countries have massive entitlement and public-sector pension liabilities as well, so it's not looking all that good out there. I suppose we can all just start taking Soros' advice and print as much money as we can. We'll just inflate all that debt away.
I'm not certain I'd actually want to live that long, but if I were so destined, I suppose I'd be at a point in life where I could pretty much do anything I wanted with minimal ramifications (I wouldn't go on a shooting rampage or anything... I'd just mess with people all the time). I think I'd go through a period where I feigned dementia, maybe one where I ran around naked in the streets (we're going streaking!), or whatever. Who knows? Could be depressing, the loss of everyone else, though.
No, I would not want to live that long UNLESS my loved ones lived as long as I did. To not have my husband and kids and friends would just not be worth having those added years.
I'd probably kill myself by the time I am 50 if our government does not turn around by 2013.
If I somehow live past 50, I would explore the world in search of a legendary bird that we have little evidence of and eventually create technology that can make dogs talk and start killing people one by one because I think they are after the bird and eventually fall off my blimp when one of my biggest fan's husband's house attached to balloons pulls me off.
I would not want to be that long lived. I am 55 and it is bad enough to survive my wife's passing, the passing of some of my high school friends and the passing of older coworkers. To live so long as this woman reportedly has and realize that everything and everyone you knew and loved is gone. What a feeling of being alone in the world. Like the fictional character in Highlander, the sadness of that story is that he outlives his place in time where all his loved ones lived.
I would live forever if I could, even if I didn't keep my somewhat youthful body because I really don't think there's much of anything left after your body dies, and I think that sucks. I don't care about aging, as long as I'm still in good shape mentally. Look at Steven Hawkings, he'll never commit suicide.
157 would be pretty sweet... It would be sad to see friends and family pass, but at the same time you can at least still be involved in and experience an ever-changing world . Although, if given the choice, I'd prefer the "lifespan" of a Tolkien Elf myself ;-)
When a 40 year old woman gives birth, the life expectancy of her child has already lessened. Why didn't she proclaim this years ago? She has been the oldest person alive for what? over 30 years.. Unbelievable
In this time? Hell no. in 30 years muslims will be a majority in my country and with no signs of resistance or awakening the death of my culture and my country will not be something I would want to suffer through and bear witness to alive. I would rather die in battle now than experience a colonisation without opposition.
Nanotechnology's engineering problems will be solved in 20 to 30 years. If offense develops first, all life dies; if defense comes first, all poverty and disease, including aging, vanish.
The first molecular manufacturing machine costs trillions; each additional one nothing. Assuming humanity survives, middle-aged or younger people have an excellent chance of living indefinitely in perfect health, with washboard abs and six-million-dollar-man senses.
Being of sound mind AND body, mind you... There's no point in being lucid and with the wisdom of 157 years of life if you are bedridden.
It'd be sad to see all your friends and even children die in the process, but if I could reach that age with the energy to travel around, I'd be in for it. I always say one lifetime, even two, are not long anough to enjoy all that the worls has to offer us.
sure i would do it i would be famous if nobody else lived that long also doctores would want to talk to me how i did it even want to see my genes now. and just think i would alwasy date younger girls
If I lived to be 90, and I was in Indonesia, I'd be like, "Get me the hell out of here... Preferably somewhere near an American theme park, because this Indonesia thing has been boring the hell out of me." ... Of course, one ride on a Six Flags rollercoaster, and that would be the end of it. That would suck for everyone in line behind me, because there would be a delay as they removed my corpse. That's no way to go out.
@RespectfulDiscourse Yes. Papua, New Guinea... Bali... All of the neighboring countries... I was in the military for 6 years active duty. I've been all over Southeast Asia... and Southwest Asia. I was stationed in Asia for 5 years. We didn't frequent the "tourist" spots most people are familiar with, and neither do the people native to the region.
With the world going the way it is, I would have to say I simply don't know. On one hand, you have all the misery and anguish throughout the world but on the other hand, you could get away with going up to President Obama and slapping him across the face and saying, 'what the hell are you doing. I've seen this several times in my life and they all turn out the same way."
@djacobox372 I just read the official news article in the description. Lee kinda messed up the story alittle. The 157 year old lady didn't have a child. The daughter Lee referred to was actually adopted by the older women.
I'm of mixed emotions. There's so much that I want to accomplish in my life, and knowing that I'm about to enter the latter half of my existence (assuming the average life span of a human male to be 82 years) is really depressing.
I was wondering how many times Obama uses the words IT'S COMPLICATED. I mean how dumb does he think we all are. You try to get a straight answer from him and all we get is IT'S COMPLICATED. So could you find out not just for me but for all of us average joes out there thanks.
@Lymandog When he says it's complicated it means he's to stupid to understand it, and it really doesn't have to be very complicated for that to be the case. As far as how dumb he thinks we are, he thinks everyone out here is on the level of the morons that voted for him, or at least he wishes we were.
@Lymandog It's because he has no clue himself!.....And usually, the 'complicated' remedies are the worst possible direction to take. Most will agree, that KISS, (keep it simple stupid) goes a LONG way. And cheaper to implement too. But what do I know? I am just a minion. Sigh.
@hawkermustang What's Obama care? Oh, I know what that is...it's a cheap, stupid political label thrust upon us by a neo-Nazi prostitute known as Sarah Palin, that whore you admire. Keep voting against your own economic interests, loser.
Yep, I sure would. My retirement would be longer than the time I worked. Who doesn't want vacation for the majority of their life? I'd be the oldest, tannest, fun lovin-est prune on the beach!
our newspaper said she smokes clove sigarettes. (belgium)
I would say yes to your proposal the longer the better. When you're not into it anymore you can end it earlier, but you couldn't choose to live longer when your time has come, right?
so i guess i might try one of these cigarettes :-D
I would love to be that old. I be like "When I was a kid we didn't have to be microchiped and forcefully sterilized and live in a communist dictatorship" lol.. What I am pestimistic.
Never would I want to live past 100. What are you going to do? Roll around in a wheel chair? You can't do anything fun or interesting if you have limited mobility.
Very stupid
007fruity 2 months ago
It's no doubt false. It's impossible, and she would look almost like an ancient mummy at that age: )
winterstellar 9 months ago
like you have a choice in how old you're going to get.....
FullFledged2010 9 months ago
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I don't really believe it.
AceofDlamonds 9 months ago
People get 157 years old? "That's how the world works"...*sigh* Don't believe everything you read man.
damillionmalania 10 months ago
Lol in our gen by the time were 50 the world will end...
w4lyfb 10 months ago
your a fag.
BewarKurdishMusician 10 months ago
I don't think I want to be that old
HeidenHobbema 10 months ago
this is soooooo bullshit.
absolutely untrue.
people are so gullible. sad to see doren fall for this one.
100CommonCents 10 months ago
I would only want to live as long as my wife.
sooseiji 11 months ago
@sooseiji That's a very naive attitude. In the end, who knows how you'll feel about your wife in ten years? Maybe you'll be divorced and remarried with three new kids. Who knows? In the end something else might happen that makes you not want to live as long as your wife, or something might happen that will make you want to live longer (after all there are many things and causes to fight and live for, just look at James Randi for example).
damillionmalania 10 months ago
@damillionmalania I was speaking more in terms of old age. I wouldn't really want to live to 157 years-old if I had to spend the last 50 years depressed due to losing my wife (first wife or otherwise). Other people may do something career related, change the world, whatever. All I want is to get married, have kids, live comfortably. I figure I'd have to spend a year or two alone in the end, during that time I would write, paint, etc. That may not be what will happen, but that is what I want.
sooseiji 10 months ago
No, I don't even want to see 50.
AgentGhost 11 months ago
Turinah is the way to go!!
MaxBenitez83 1 year ago
Quality of life is much more important than longgevity. everyone keeps going on about "long life" yet do they concider that if you lived to be 100 that life quality might be drastically reduced, the real question should be, what QUALITY of life do you want, as I say, I would rather only live to 40 and be happy and healthy those 40 years then to fall ill young and suffer for another 80+ years, sometime death is a better option, you can't escape it so you may as well acept it.
meatisdeliciouse 1 year ago 2
I would do it, if I was happy and healthy, QUALITY of life is probualy more important than life it's self. I would like to live that long if my body was healthy and able and I hade no finacial debt or other problems. I would rather die at 40 and have hade a happy life then go on the live to over 100 confined to a whealchair. How come it's only poor countries that seem to have these anciet people? Surley the richer countries with better life stley would harbour more oldies?
meatisdeliciouse 1 year ago
This woman EXAGGERATED HER AGE. There is no way her nor her daughter are the ages that they claim. The oldest person ever to live was Jeanne Louise Calment of France (February 21, 1875-August 4, 1997) aged 122 years, 164 days. She was a fully documented supercentenarian.
CrazyCoyote100 1 year ago
@CrazyCoyote100 Amasing, thats like having someone who was 100 in 1989 and still having time to live. 122 is amazing, 157 is just silly. Notice how it's always really poor countiries that make these claims?
meatisdeliciouse 1 year ago
My grandfather is in his 90s and has used computers all his life. He spends a lot of his day on the computer. I'd love to live to be 100 and beyond as I could do so much with my life and witness great technological development and new discoveries.
DarthMaul8065 1 year ago
@DarthMaul8065
That's very interesting. When you say that he used computers all his life, do you mean to say that he worked as a "computer" early in his life, back when that term was used to describe the operator of a difference engine or programmable computer, rather than the machine itself? Or did he merely have access to abaci or mechanical desktop calculators or the like for the early years, and then to more advanced hardware when such became commercially viable?
PanzerDivisionBOM 1 year ago
@PanzerDivisionBOM I didn't say he worked "as a computer". I said he has used computers throughout his life, i.e. throughout his career. He worked for Kodak and had to use the very large computers they had in earlier times and gradually smaller and more modern computers as times went by. And when personal computers became available, he purchased a personal computer and has always bought newer and newer computers up to the present day.
DarthMaul8065 1 year ago
Heck yeah, I would totally do it! My great-grandmother is 91, of sound mind, and more mobile than a lot of people 20 years younger than her. I showed her how to use a Droid last time we met up. And I'm sure I could invent some gravity-defying hover chair in the 130 years between now and then. Who wouldn't want one of those?
solarseraph 1 year ago
Hell, I'd love to live to be that old. Think of everything she's seen and experienced. Even in the later shitty years you could just watch TV or something.
HolyDiver1 1 year ago
yes i would it would be interesting to see that much history go by you it would be so fascinating
OMGLUMBERG 1 year ago 2
I'd like to experience clean air and water again, or a generally better global environment, be involved with projects that can take around 50 years or even more.
leftredshoe 1 year ago
No I would not like to live that long. I don't want to be a shell of my former self any longer do I have to.
yushinzzo2 1 year ago
Yes why not!
anonymityismyname 1 year ago
Her vagina must be like a burlap pouch.
cjbos81 1 year ago 3
who cares
maitilupas 1 year ago
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Did this guy get a sex change operation to become a woman? And was he dropped on his fucking head as a kid?
johnnydarkly 1 year ago
I wouldn't cause I would see all my friends die as I live. I would also see how the world gets more fucked up by each day and die of depression instead of a heart-attack like I should.
Poya6666 1 year ago
If I were 157, I could imagine my body would suck. If I'd foreseen this, I'd want an exoskeleton suit similar to the Hal 5 made for my personal use, and I'd ,most likely work with scientists as best I could to improve human longevity, and slowing the process of aging. If I could foresee this all, I would have invested a ridiculous sum of money to earn interest off of it to pay for said stuff.
justicetrooper 1 year ago
@justicetrooper It's body reformation that I'd worry about most off, exoskeleton would allow my body worsen and deteriorate faster due to lack of physical energy exerted while relying more on a mechanical operative. Especially a machine that may be hard to repair in itself if it were so advanced in a less advanced culture that is more susceptible to be expensive to repair/reproduce parts.
XaneCrazy 1 year ago
@XaneCrazy I see. I'd probably only use it when out and about. Some form of exercise would be a necessity to maintain the body that long. It'd just be the icing on the cake that'd prevent me from being a weakling.
justicetrooper 1 year ago
Hell yes! I could make a lot of money selling my story. My "secret". Or I could meet so many people. I could teach so many people and help them gain a better understanding of life because living to be 157... you must gain a lot of insight. I am only 21 and I make realizations about life all the time. I get a moment of clarity about once or twice a month. Imagine that times 8! :O
quitejaded 1 year ago
I would live as long as possible if I could be of sound mind and body. After all, the evidence suggests this is the only life we get and it's all the better if I can make it last longer.
Snipe4261 1 year ago
IF I was 157 I would probably kill myself
edgarreyes14 1 year ago
@edgarreyes14 Why wait til 157?
johnnydarkly 1 year ago
id imagine its very likley to be fake like all these claimants they conveniently lose there birth certificates
gatorfresh 1 year ago 6
@gatorfresh well if they havn't seemed to find it after 156 years i would belive that
MariiAndMikesMusic 11 months ago
@gatorfresh but then agen back then brith certificates where not iron clad and porly keep track of
dondondonman 9 months ago
@gatorfresh Um 150 years ago.... No birth Certificates...... Maybe your joking. People shouldn't be that dumb. Either way your joke/sarcasm sucks and 7 people are just as lame.
RELLIKPIR 8 months ago
@RELLIKPIR
so you think that these so called 150 plus people are real.
and there weren't any birth certificates 157 years ago.
ok then...apparently i'm dumb and lame.
gatorfresh 7 months ago
@gatorfresh
Man you have the worst sarcasm ever. It neither bites nor humors. It just makes me disappointed. Do I believe it for sure. No. Do I think it impossible. No. Age is a combination of dozens of factors within and outside a persons control. To say it is impossible when you have 90-100 year old people who smoked or chewed tobacco and drank. She could be that 1 among billions that exceeds imagination. Like people with IQ's over 200 except she just lived forever.
RELLIKPIR 7 months ago
@RELLIKPIR
i'm not been sarcastic
i'd imagine it's impossible
but maybe it's not
gatorfresh 7 months ago
@gatorfresh She is in Indonesia, She probably never had a birth certificate.
TheEnglishAtheist1 6 months ago 2
@TheEnglishAtheist1 Thats what im thinking,
WonderfulDenmark 4 months ago
You sir, are an idiot
copguy123 1 year ago
Yea- Think of all the history and progress I would see (though History and my life would be the same). I know I would probably be a huge pessimist.
VonMeissen 1 year ago
why are people believing this garbage... stop posting about this fake shit and post about Lady Gaga's new bra or something... This is just as bad as reporting Big Foot sightings....
Brandonduboff 1 year ago
@Brandonduboff
it's worse than big foot,at least that's plausable
gatorfresh 9 months ago
I REALLY cant believe this.
That being said:
I want to live as long as I enjoy it.
I dont know what will happen years from now, but as long as my body works without any machinery, and as long as I have got a friend in the world... why not, I guess.
TheRyowyn 1 year ago
I bet she is a two pack a day smoker too
Zohnerism 1 year ago
@Zohnerism Well she smoke kretek cigarettes all her life she says.
Extraneus3771 1 year ago
I would TOTALLY live to be 157 if I was still in good physical shape and of sound mind. Think of all the knowledge and wisdom you could pass on to your younger peers.
sveardze 1 year ago
Although I highly doubt that is true, this brings up the idea of medical and technological sciences being able to make people immortal. What do you think about? Do you think that we should wait until we have colonized other planets so we don't overpopulate? Do you think that people should have to wait till a certain age to make the decision? Would human euthanasia be OK when people are finally done with livign? Is there a fear of harmful people with immortality?
AlbinoZebra100 1 year ago
@AlbinoZebra100 so wait are you saying she is immortal
fsxpilot123456 1 year ago
@fsxpilot123456 Are you stupid?
AlbinoZebra100 1 year ago
@AlbinoZebra100 no dumbfuck
fsxpilot123456 1 year ago
hell no i would be in pain
angeldemonjosh 1 year ago
shut up ass lol umm if I could I would like to live as long as the sun is still keeping the world going
Splangy1 1 year ago
anybody who's even a casual alcohol drinker would lose too many braincells by that age
Ryanjelly22 1 year ago
Hmm, well if you do, obviously you're making out like a bandit with regard to Social Security. But in addition, if your extra years are all miserable because your body has broken down ... then no way! But if we assume the retirement age and your ACTIVE, enjoyable years are proportionately raised ... then heck yeah! Life is good, enjoy it while you can.
nasaguy 1 year ago
would I do it hell no, unless I didn't age. Yeah thats how I want to spend the last 90 and some years worrying about breaking a hip.
mrrossn 1 year ago
Could not Imagine being on this planet for 150 years. My grandma is 90 and she says she has seen to much already.
memphis313 1 year ago
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ogreeshan1 1 year ago
I'd love to be immortal
greenghost2008 1 year ago
@greenghost2008 you will regret that decision when the time comes ._.
Dodroble 1 year ago
@Dodroble Why would somebody regret that if they still had stuff to do with their life?
deathsminion25 1 year ago
Wow. Just to think this lady was 36 years old when Adolf Hitler was born...
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@friendlyfire53 Yes, the Icon of all American KKKristians.
johnnydarkly 1 year ago
@Handheldgamer: HEY! That's the plot to up! You win!
anakinfan12002 1 year ago
Sure I would love to live so long. No matter how things seem in America now, I can't believe that so many self proclaimed patriots and "rational" people are spouting the most absurd chicken little predictions about the US. Guess what, things are that bad!
BarthBunzel 1 year ago
No, of course not. How much fun can to live in this world for one and a half century and see everybody you ever knew die two times over?
Pankraze 1 year ago
Hey! Its Moe Rocca!
martenfisher1 1 year ago
no, even being of sound mind and agood heart, the human body is still deteriorating, not a day past 80 for me, If I haven't lived a full life by then well at that point I'm just friggen done.... 59 years later, FOR GOD"S SAKE LET ME LIVE ANOTHER YEAR!
Dan33189 1 year ago
Hell yeah I would live that long.
alphathewolf 1 year ago
I'm 35 and considering the U.S. will be totally bankrupt by the time I am 57 (actually a bit later, but play along), I don't think I'd even want to live through another hundred years of that.
UTubekookdetector 1 year ago
@UTubekookdetector there are other countries besides America and they aren't all bad
BeautifulBuddhist 1 year ago
BEAUT: I see your point, but most European countries have massive entitlement and public-sector pension liabilities as well, so it's not looking all that good out there. I suppose we can all just start taking Soros' advice and print as much money as we can. We'll just inflate all that debt away.
UTubekookdetector 1 year ago
@UTubekookdetector joke? i cant tell if your are being sarcastic. i feel like it's a safe assumption but there are crazies on the internet.
BeautifulBuddhist 1 year ago
BEAUT: You didn't know about the financial liabilities of entitlement programs and public-sector pensions? Wow, where were you "educated"?
UTubekookdetector 1 year ago
I'm not certain I'd actually want to live that long, but if I were so destined, I suppose I'd be at a point in life where I could pretty much do anything I wanted with minimal ramifications (I wouldn't go on a shooting rampage or anything... I'd just mess with people all the time). I think I'd go through a period where I feigned dementia, maybe one where I ran around naked in the streets (we're going streaking!), or whatever. Who knows? Could be depressing, the loss of everyone else, though.
TheKeyboardDrummer 1 year ago
No, I would not want to live that long UNLESS my loved ones lived as long as I did. To not have my husband and kids and friends would just not be worth having those added years.
DeetsterB 1 year ago
I'd probably kill myself by the time I am 50 if our government does not turn around by 2013.
If I somehow live past 50, I would explore the world in search of a legendary bird that we have little evidence of and eventually create technology that can make dogs talk and start killing people one by one because I think they are after the bird and eventually fall off my blimp when one of my biggest fan's husband's house attached to balloons pulls me off.
handheldgamer144 1 year ago
IDK what that menes
FlamenLion 1 year ago
I would do it if I was not totally disabled.
fartwimp 1 year ago
I want to live to 157 so that I can keep a accurate record of ways Congress tries to screw the people. So of course I'd be of sound mind.
crosssworn703 1 year ago
It would be very interesting to live that long, that's all that I can say, and I want it :)
stiffeg 1 year ago
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Come on fess up. Her name is Nancy Pelosi, right??
anticsrocks 1 year ago
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anticsrocks 1 year ago
I would not want to be that long lived. I am 55 and it is bad enough to survive my wife's passing, the passing of some of my high school friends and the passing of older coworkers. To live so long as this woman reportedly has and realize that everything and everyone you knew and loved is gone. What a feeling of being alone in the world. Like the fictional character in Highlander, the sadness of that story is that he outlives his place in time where all his loved ones lived.
1955thekeeper 1 year ago
I hope my spirit lives forever, but this body? No thanks, I look forward to a better afterlife!
stillmacswoman 1 year ago
As a musician, I'd love to be able to live that long. Imagine the possibilities!!!!!!!
givinitsome 1 year ago
UNFREAKIN BELIEVEABLE!!
GlennRoxWyo 1 year ago
I want to live to 157 so I can vote against Democrats139 times!!!!!!
VirgilCain1001 1 year ago
PLeeeease one step at a time...we ALL need toget through 2012 first!!!
OurVoice123 1 year ago
I would live forever if I could, even if I didn't keep my somewhat youthful body because I really don't think there's much of anything left after your body dies, and I think that sucks. I don't care about aging, as long as I'm still in good shape mentally. Look at Steven Hawkings, he'll never commit suicide.
RyanTheTruthSeeker 1 year ago
Usually I'd say yes but with the way things are going in the good ole us of a...I dunno.
bassistftw 1 year ago
What fun is a sound mind without a sound body?
godgunsncountry 1 year ago
The REAL determining factor: Would I still kick ass on Halo?
LeQuack147 1 year ago
@LeQuack147 Severe arthritis of the thumbs.
1acroyear1 1 year ago
She was 49 when she had a child in... 1902? YEah likely!
5Cats 1 year ago
@5Cats it was adopted
Alexandra1029 1 year ago
Meh, I'll be ready to check out when I'm about 50. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live to be 157.
TrumanPolly 1 year ago
Yes!
PaytonChristian 1 year ago
157 would be pretty sweet... It would be sad to see friends and family pass, but at the same time you can at least still be involved in and experience an ever-changing world . Although, if given the choice, I'd prefer the "lifespan" of a Tolkien Elf myself ;-)
MerlinYoda 1 year ago
When a 40 year old woman gives birth, the life expectancy of her child has already lessened. Why didn't she proclaim this years ago? She has been the oldest person alive for what? over 30 years.. Unbelievable
ballzydan 1 year ago
@ballzydan the kid was adopted
Alexandra1029 1 year ago
In this time? Hell no. in 30 years muslims will be a majority in my country and with no signs of resistance or awakening the death of my culture and my country will not be something I would want to suffer through and bear witness to alive. I would rather die in battle now than experience a colonisation without opposition.
Clausfarre 1 year ago
Nanotechnology's engineering problems will be solved in 20 to 30 years. If offense develops first, all life dies; if defense comes first, all poverty and disease, including aging, vanish.
The first molecular manufacturing machine costs trillions; each additional one nothing. Assuming humanity survives, middle-aged or younger people have an excellent chance of living indefinitely in perfect health, with washboard abs and six-million-dollar-man senses.
It's not science fiction; it's science.
MarkReadPickens 1 year ago
Being of sound mind AND body, mind you... There's no point in being lucid and with the wisdom of 157 years of life if you are bedridden.
It'd be sad to see all your friends and even children die in the process, but if I could reach that age with the energy to travel around, I'd be in for it. I always say one lifetime, even two, are not long anough to enjoy all that the worls has to offer us.
nobradors 1 year ago
PRE-bp oil spill, maybe, now! never, i think ten more years and our climate will be outta control
Tankable 1 year ago
That sounds like along time ... I'm not even 40 yet and that seems like forever!
I'd do it with the following conditions: family, love, freedom, and books.
RespectfulDiscourse 1 year ago
sure i would do it i would be famous if nobody else lived that long also doctores would want to talk to me how i did it even want to see my genes now. and just think i would alwasy date younger girls
tomanyasses 1 year ago
An americain loudmouth?!
what a surprise. Boy you are so different from all the others...
Please tell us how the world works.
1HumanKind 1 year ago
157? Bah, that's way too short! I would rather live much longer than that!
Enfrespy 1 year ago
If I lived to be 90, and I was in Indonesia, I'd be like, "Get me the hell out of here... Preferably somewhere near an American theme park, because this Indonesia thing has been boring the hell out of me." ... Of course, one ride on a Six Flags rollercoaster, and that would be the end of it. That would suck for everyone in line behind me, because there would be a delay as they removed my corpse. That's no way to go out.
Bunker91 1 year ago
@Bunker91 (after 157 years of swatting flies away from my face and eating rotten bird eggs...)
Bunker91 1 year ago
@Bunker91 Have you ever been to Indonesia??
RespectfulDiscourse 1 year ago
@RespectfulDiscourse Yes. Papua, New Guinea... Bali... All of the neighboring countries... I was in the military for 6 years active duty. I've been all over Southeast Asia... and Southwest Asia. I was stationed in Asia for 5 years. We didn't frequent the "tourist" spots most people are familiar with, and neither do the people native to the region.
Bunker91 1 year ago
Bummer. She's lived all those years in Indonesia??? What a waste of time...
Bunker91 1 year ago
With the world going the way it is, I would have to say I simply don't know. On one hand, you have all the misery and anguish throughout the world but on the other hand, you could get away with going up to President Obama and slapping him across the face and saying, 'what the hell are you doing. I've seen this several times in my life and they all turn out the same way."
mcoop221 1 year ago
It's highly unlikely that a 49yo woman had a child 108 years ago.
djacobox372 1 year ago
@djacobox372
Someone living to 108 is highly unlikely.
HBSchool 1 year ago
@djacobox372 I just read the official news article in the description. Lee kinda messed up the story alittle. The 157 year old lady didn't have a child. The daughter Lee referred to was actually adopted by the older women.
JoshMcRay 1 year ago
OF COURSE I would. People always despairage old age, but it's LIFE, people. For the vast majority of circumstances, I'll take living over not living.
austinmichaelcraig 1 year ago
a hell no. they don't make exercise equipment for people over 100
Pretending2Bsmart 1 year ago
I'm of mixed emotions. There's so much that I want to accomplish in my life, and knowing that I'm about to enter the latter half of my existence (assuming the average life span of a human male to be 82 years) is really depressing.
jmparker78 1 year ago
I was wondering how many times Obama uses the words IT'S COMPLICATED. I mean how dumb does he think we all are. You try to get a straight answer from him and all we get is IT'S COMPLICATED. So could you find out not just for me but for all of us average joes out there thanks.
Lymandog 1 year ago
@Lymandog When he says it's complicated it means he's to stupid to understand it, and it really doesn't have to be very complicated for that to be the case. As far as how dumb he thinks we are, he thinks everyone out here is on the level of the morons that voted for him, or at least he wishes we were.
nighthawg 1 year ago
@Lymandog It's because he has no clue himself!.....And usually, the 'complicated' remedies are the worst possible direction to take. Most will agree, that KISS, (keep it simple stupid) goes a LONG way. And cheaper to implement too. But what do I know? I am just a minion. Sigh.
TheRancherman61 1 year ago
Really I wouldn't know, it is I guess a blessing but a curse at the same time. But if God wanted me that long then I guess so.
goptwothemax 1 year ago
I imagine the 60 years between wanting to die and waiting to break a record aren't that fun
Tripo1iSamson 1 year ago
She did that without Obama care?
hawkermustang 1 year ago 41
@hawkermustang your comment says volumes! thumbs up!
TheRancherman61 1 year ago
@hawkermustang yea all without socialism.. whod a thunk it.
papastiffy 1 year ago
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@hawkermustang What's Obama care? Oh, I know what that is...it's a cheap, stupid political label thrust upon us by a neo-Nazi prostitute known as Sarah Palin, that whore you admire. Keep voting against your own economic interests, loser.
johnnydarkly 1 year ago
I don't think I could take 157 years of humanity's bullshit
serenityinfire777 1 year ago
157? Hell, I don't think I'll make it to forty. [lights up, takes a drink]
littlebier8 1 year ago
I think it's a little fishy. An almost 200 years old human?
regelemihai 1 year ago
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Almost? 50 years is quite a long time.
lafther210 1 year ago
you would have a lot of wisdom to share.
Itsfaith33 1 year ago
Only if I could find a young, hot 80 year old chic to spend my time with.
AutoSear 1 year ago
@AutoSear my granny is 81
How much ? 10 bucks ?
51munz 1 year ago
Yep, I sure would. My retirement would be longer than the time I worked. Who doesn't want vacation for the majority of their life? I'd be the oldest, tannest, fun lovin-est prune on the beach!
Farabutt 1 year ago
I would like to quote Sergeant Major Daniel Joseph "Dan" Daly "Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?"
got2xlr8 1 year ago 4
If this is true, she was born before the Civil War.
DEFYtheTHOUGHTPOLICE 1 year ago
yea i really doubt the validity of that claim
ZacK77k77 1 year ago
I would do it only if I am physically and mentally well.
CyberPirate83 1 year ago
Isn't michael dougals 159???
benmcpeatfield 1 year ago
our newspaper said she smokes clove sigarettes. (belgium)
I would say yes to your proposal the longer the better. When you're not into it anymore you can end it earlier, but you couldn't choose to live longer when your time has come, right?
so i guess i might try one of these cigarettes :-D
Klaproosjeuu 1 year ago
i would because then i could see what happens like technology science ecosystem but i wouldnt like seeing so many friends and family members die :(
optdestruct 1 year ago
People never live that long in America, maybe its the water? If we did I would live to 157 hell id live to 257!
thalogic2012 1 year ago
I would love to be that old. I be like "When I was a kid we didn't have to be microchiped and forcefully sterilized and live in a communist dictatorship" lol.. What I am pestimistic.
singlaprety12 1 year ago
If god let's me.
godzilla19852008 1 year ago
I would live to 157 only if I could be of sound BODY too!
taffygirlgood 1 year ago
Not in today's shitty world.
ronpaulisacommunist 1 year ago
If I was 157 years old I'd be telling your grandparents those "when I was your age" stories shiiiiit
tizotube100 1 year ago
157? Not a chance if the women all look like Helen Thomas.
beerbrewer737 1 year ago
Heck yeah!
wlchase 1 year ago
im going to try ........
all lifes very best all the time.
MYENDLESSPATH 1 year ago
Yes, absolutely. I think it might be the only way I get to see flying cars in my lifetime.
kangarookirby 1 year ago
yea i would want to live to be over one hundred ONLY if the left is out of power - other wise the world will not be worth living in.
bettyhatesobama 1 year ago
Never would I want to live past 100. What are you going to do? Roll around in a wheel chair? You can't do anything fun or interesting if you have limited mobility.
samtaekwondo123 1 year ago
@samtaekwondo123 100 years from now, there will virtual reality and untold things to do when over 100
DickeyRogers 1 year ago
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@samtaekwondo123 100 years from now, there will virtual reality and untold things to do when over 100
DickeyRogers 1 year ago
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I find the prospect of such a long life quite horrifying. It reminds me of the lyrics of the Rush song "Xanadu."
DerWille1200 1 year ago
I find the prospect of such a long life quite horrifying. It reminds me of the lyrics of the Rush song "Xanadu."
DerWille1200 1 year ago
sure, to enjoy the changes in 'weather'! (weather being everything!)
mallardhead 1 year ago
It would be interesting to do. You could literally win any argument you get into by citing "experience".
cataphracts123 1 year ago