[XtRaVa]

Immortality would suck if it was only you who had it, because anyone you ever get close to or love, you would have to watch die. However if everyones immortal then that would be okay. I still dont know if I'd want to live forever, but I'd love to live for say, 1000 years. Would get to see so much stuff happen and things get invented.

I remember reading about a breakthrough in some forms of cancer, where they think they can help cure it. They know that cells are supposed to have a certain life span, and only divide a certain amount of times (causes death), but in cancer cells this trigger is not present, and instead the cells constantly divide, causing tumors.

They found a way to make the cancer cells have a life span, and naturally die, by introducing whatever stuff healthy cells have in them (dont ask me to try to remember the scientific name lol). That got me thinking, if they are close to working out how to tell cancer cells to die, then that also means they know why cancer cells dont die, and therefore technically there could be some way to rid all healthy cells of their natural shut off point and therefore live for an extremely long time, if not forever.

They would just have to work out how to stop those cells turning into tumors and multiplying faster than a normal cell rate. They can already change the rate in which cells divide and mess about with stuff like that, so technically its not all that far-fetched that one day maybe they will find a way to make us live for a lot longer.

I for one am for stem-cell research and other cell research like that, as long as its to cure diseases etc.