Humans to become Immortal

[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.

[ItsAlive75]

At least if we were all immortal, I'd be friends with everyone sooner or later.

[stygianwitch]

Dunno whether i'd like to live for 1000 years but a couple of hundred would be good, but not immortality, god i'd be bored inside a week just wondering what the hell i was going to do for the rest of eternity

[Vodstok]

It would all come down to choice. We have the science to live for almost 100 years. All it takes is a healthy lifestyle. But there are plenty of people who choose not to.

plus, we'd still have car crashes, overdoses, suicide, domestic violence, terrorists, war, crime, poor diet and a thousand other things to keep the population down.

Not to mention natural disatsers. I am willing to bet within a year or two of success, we'd get hit by an asteroid or something. fate has a sick sense of irony.

[AUSTIN316426808]

I wouldn't mind immortality one bit. Doesn't exactly say you'd be superman, just the aging process would stop and if you're around long enough the odds 'll catch up to ya eventually.

[PR3SSUR3]

Everyone who claims they wouldn't like to live forever are lying bastardos.

But I think the most important thing to consider is about getting old - who wants that?

The acceptance of failing faculties and an impending switching off to: oblivion?

Give me a break - rescue me while I'm still young please.



:cool:

[The STE]

Originally posted by stygianwitch
Dunno whether i'd like to live for 1000 years but a couple of hundred would be good, but not immortality, god i'd be bored inside a week just wondering what the hell i was going to do for the rest of eternity

but you'd have plenty of time to think of something

[Dude Guadalupe]

Originally posted by Zero
what's so bad about death? personally, i could use the sleep

Me too, If I stopped aging I'd just get really fat cuz I'm to lazy for eternity.

[Haunted]

Originally posted by PR3SSUR3
Everyone who claims they wouldn't like to live forever are lying bastardos.

But I think the most important thing to consider is about getting old - who wants that?

The acceptance of failing faculties and an impending switching off to: oblivion?

Give me a break - rescue me while I'm still young please.



:cool:

Aye! You and S... I love you guys.

You're right. It's human nature to be afraid of the unknown, no matter what sort of bravado we put forth, hell I'm scared of the dying process.

However, look at the shit we've already done to this planet. Sure, we can march in with good intentions to fix things, but it wouldn't happen. We'd garner an even greater sense that we're the best and nothing else matters except humans. Thus, we would destroy ourselves utterly. It would ultimately serve no purpose except to...prolong the inevitable.

[PR3SSUR3]

In my eternal world of Ferraris and top models, I wouldn't care so much.

Plus, as has been offered, more scientists mean the colonisation (and conquering, and sapping) of other planets ASAP.

:)