Is the Human Race (At least the wealthy ones) drifiting to virtual immortality?

[dighn]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Considering all accidents in your life you have a 1/24 chance of dying from one of them.

Hmm, goodluck with living to 5000.

wow that's much higher than i thought.

although if you have the chance to live to 5000 i suspect you'd be very careful. and who knows, mortality rate might be lower i the future. but then even living over 1000 years would be pretty amazing. 1 millenium!

in fact if they extend it to just 200 years, i'd still be pretty amazed

 

[Match]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: Match
If I live to be 5000 years old, do I still get to retire at 65?

Sorry. You have to work until you're around 3500. Then you can enjoy 500 years of retirement and then spend the next millennium in an old age home very, very slowly dying.

 

[PunDogg]

thats way too long for me, let me live til i am not happy anymore, u know when i can;t move around and have to have people help all the time, which wil prob be around 90 or something.

Dogg

 

[Kyteland]

Just because science can give you the ability to live to 5000 doesn't mean that the life expectancy would be that. Today people have the ability to tive to 125+, but the life expectancy is much lower.

People who smoked would die faster.
People who took unnessecary risks would die faster.
Teenagers would probably have a higher mortality rate then, say, the 80-90 age group. (cuz we all now how stupid teenagers can be)

Just because you'd have the ability to live that long deosn't mean that it's a sure thing.

But think of the benefit to science. Someone getting an advanced degree nowadays can still be in school during the most productive periods of their life. That would change, and people would be able to focus on so many more things during their life.

And on top of that people like Brittney Spears would have 5000 years to keep cranking out the hits! Who would want to miss that?

 

[Luagsch]

Originally posted by: Garet Jax
Crazy. I wouldn't want to be the first. Once they iron out the process and make it so the side effects are non-existant, it may be cool.

maybe you get superpowers from the side-effects... you never know... (reminds me of family guy when the whole family gets superpowers and the mayor drulls around in toxic waste too...)

EDIT englush or simething

 

[Syringer]

Anyone else notice that he says none of us will be around in the year 2100? That's only 97 years away..living to be 100 nowadays really isn't a big deal..120-130 shouldn't be a big deal by that time either.