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What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.

 
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What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
After doing my own research on immortality I have found biomedical gerontology to be the most promising area of study out of all the others of extending human life spans within our own life times, specifically Dr. Aubrey de Grey and the research being done at his SENS Foundation in California.

I support the cause of immortality because not dying is my life goal, I love life and would never get bored. There is simply too much to do, to learn, to experience for me to ever get bored with life. Thats why I find it absurd when people say they would get bored if they lived forever, how can you possibly get bored?
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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
After doing my own research on immortality I have found biomedical gerontology to be the most promising area of study out of all the others of extending human life spans within our own life times, specifically Dr. Aubrey de Grey and the research being done at his SENS Foundation in California.

I support the cause of immortality because not dying is my life goal, I love life and would never get bored. There is simply too much to do, to learn, to experience for me to ever get bored with life. Thats why I find it absurd when people say they would get bored if they lived forever, how can you possibly get bored?
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Apparently, you've never seen Highlander.

Immortality isn't an easy gig, you are required to have duels with other immortals from time to time and you can't cheat (use a gun), you have to use swords (oldschool). If you get your head chopped off, you're done, for good.

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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
Whether we'll see indefinite lifespans in our lifetimes depends entirely on funding.

I mean, just to compare two projects:

1. The Manhattan Project

Cost: $26 billion
Employees: 130,000
Sites: Over 30

2. Labs actually working on telomerase induction:

Ron DePinho at MD Anderson Cancer Center/ Harvard Medical School
Maria Blasco at the CNIO
Bill Andrews at Sierra Sciences

I don't know how many employees work with Drs. DePinho and Blasco, but Dr. Andrews has about ten employees.

If telomerase induction is the first step towards clinical immortality - and I believe it is - we are devoting pennies to it. Just pocket change. Probably less than the annual budget for Duke's basketball team.
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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
About zero for most of you.
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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
Between Wake Forest (printed organs), Calico Labs (Google's practically unlimited cash), and SENS, the future is looking a lot brighter than it was a few years ago.

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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
After doing my own research on immortality I have found biomedical gerontology to be the most promising area of study out of all the others of extending human life spans within our own life times, specifically Dr. Aubrey de Grey and the research being done at his SENS Foundation in California.

I support the cause of immortality because not dying is my life goal, I love life and would never get bored. There is simply too much to do, to learn, to experience for me to ever get bored with life. Thats why I find it absurd when people say they would get bored if they lived forever, how can you possibly get bored?
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there are few immortals but they are not in physical form..i have heard of immortal people who can still be contacted
but i wont waste your time..go on
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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
After doing my own research on immortality I have found biomedical gerontology to be the most promising area of study out of all the others of extending human life spans within our own life times, specifically Dr. Aubrey de Grey and the research being done at his SENS Foundation in California.

I support the cause of immortality because not dying is my life goal, I love life and would never get bored. There is simply too much to do, to learn, to experience for me to ever get bored with life. Thats why I find it absurd when people say they would get bored if they lived forever, how can you possibly get bored?
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there are few immortals but they are not in physical form..i have heard of immortal people who can still be contacted
but i wont waste your time..go on
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Please....please....expand on that..
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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
I think I'll see some form of functional immortality in my lifetime. I too would like the chance to live forever (or as long as possible).

If you had an indefinite lifespan you would never get bored. Just think about the technological advance you would witness. Eventually, humans will develop better means to escape the Earth. Just think, you could easily do a hundred year space voyage if you had eternity ahead of you. Who wouldn't relish the prospect of exploring the stars?
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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
I think I'll see some form of functional immortality in my lifetime. I too would like the chance to live forever (or as long as possible).

If you had an indefinite lifespan you would never get bored. Just think about the technological advance you would witness. Eventually, humans will develop better means to escape the Earth. Just think, you could easily do a hundred year space voyage if you had eternity ahead of you. Who wouldn't relish the prospect of exploring the stars?
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Yes I believe that we will start improving lifespan through stem cell and gene therapies within the next 5 years. Regenerative medicine is the future and within the next 10 to 15 years I would expect that we would find the techniques to extend lives indefinitely through body systems repair and disease reversal.
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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
Immortality is slated to arrive sometime around the middle of this century. Most likely via digital technologies such as a digital backup of your mind, or transferring your consciousness completely away from the biological and into the digital realm.
We will have also mastered the human body, being able to clone and grow an entire body complete with all organs for replacement as the current one gets injured or ages. We will have also mastered all diseases.
Life is a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
I think I'll see some form of functional immortality in my lifetime. I too would like the chance to live forever (or as long as possible).

If you had an indefinite lifespan you would never get bored. Just think about the technological advance you would witness. Eventually, humans will develop better means to escape the Earth. Just think, you could easily do a hundred year space voyage if you had eternity ahead of you. Who wouldn't relish the prospect of exploring the stars?
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Yes I believe that we will start improving lifespan through stem cell and gene therapies within the next 5 years. Regenerative medicine is the future and within the next 10 to 15 years I would expect that we would find the techniques to extend lives indefinitely through body systems repair and disease reversal.
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Yes I think that would be the first positive step towards immortality. Ensuring continuity of mind through biological immortality would be necessary to enable you to live long enough for the development of more robust technologies such as mind backup, AI, machine bodies etc.
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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
I for one wish to live forever, or as long as I can. Does anyone share this view? I've asked friends/family before about this, a few said they don't want a longer lifespan which always confused me.
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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
YES IT IS POSSIBLE...

BUT ...

YOU DO HAVE TO DO SOMETHING!!!

WHAT???

Thread: YOU CAN LIVE FOREVER !!!

ALL THE ANSWERS ARE IN THIS THREAD!!!
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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
They proved a long long time ago that you can keep a cell alive forever.

We are built as perfect machines. We are designed to live forever.

Living forever is a reality, but you are going to need 2 things:

1 - a pretty healthy body, so start being healthy and doing everything you can to improve your chances
2 - a buttload of money, so start making money and figuring out how to become a billionaire.

It will be the very healthy private billionaires who are the first to live forever, guaranteed.
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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
YES IT IS POSSIBLE...

BUT ...

YOU DO HAVE TO DO SOMETHING!!!

WHAT???

Thread: YOU CAN LIVE FOREVER !!!

ALL THE ANSWERS ARE IN THIS THREAD!!!
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Jesus and stuff?
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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
With as corrupt as 95% of the people are in this world...None of us; including me, deserve immortality on the physical plane.
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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
YES IT IS POSSIBLE...

BUT ...

YOU DO HAVE TO DO SOMETHING!!!

WHAT???

Thread: YOU CAN LIVE FOREVER !!!

ALL THE ANSWERS ARE IN THIS THREAD!!!
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Jesus and stuff?
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HE IS THE ONLY ONE IN ALL OF HISTORY TO SAY...

"I AM"...

'THE WAY'...

'THE TRUTH'...

AND 'THE LIFE'...

ALL ABSOLUTE STATEMENTS!!!

CAN YOU BEAT AN ABSOLUTE???
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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
After doing my own research on immortality I have found biomedical gerontology to be the most promising area of study out of all the others of extending human life spans within our own life times, specifically Dr. Aubrey de Grey and the research being done at his SENS Foundation in California.

I support the cause of immortality because not dying is my life goal, I love life and would never get bored. There is simply too much to do, to learn, to experience for me to ever get bored with life. Thats why I find it absurd when people say they would get bored if they lived forever, how can you possibly get bored?
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there are few immortals but they are not in physical form..i have heard of immortal people who can still be contacted
but i wont waste your time..go on
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 66286386


Please....please....expand on that..
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you wont believe me if i tell you
but certain practices and lot of factors which are not under our control can make a man immortal
like hathayoga can easily increase life span by 300-400 years but you need very good teacher and constant practice

apart from that,there are certain secret ways which make person immortal..there are still immortal people in world but their numbers are very small..something like 7-10 people are alive from last 15000 years..looks like fairy tale but they can be contacted
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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
Disgustingly selfish and spiritually loathsome concept.
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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
With as corrupt as 95% of the people are in this world...None of us; including me, deserve immortality on the physical plane.
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YOU JUST SIGNED YOUR DEATH CERT!!!
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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
Disgustingly selfish and spiritually loathsome concept.
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YES...

YOUR RIGHT!!!

IT IS BETTER TO DO AS YOUR MASTER SAYS...

DIE!!!
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With as corrupt as 95% of the people are in this world...None of us; including me, deserve immortality on the physical plane.
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koolaid oh yeah

but also, living longer would change perception of events over time and would get new meanings ie we would be learning
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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
YES IT IS POSSIBLE...

BUT ...

YOU DO HAVE TO DO SOMETHING!!!

WHAT???

Thread: YOU CAN LIVE FOREVER !!!

ALL THE ANSWERS ARE IN THIS THREAD!!!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 66288148


Jesus and stuff?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 38910983


HE IS THE ONLY ONE IN ALL OF HISTORY TO SAY...

"I AM"...

'THE WAY'...

'THE TRUTH'...

AND 'THE LIFE'...

ALL ABSOLUTE STATEMENTS!!!

CAN YOU BEAT AN ABSOLUTE???
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 66288148

YOU NEED AN ABSOLUTE...

FOR ABSOLUTE CELL CREATION!!!
I HAVE QUESTIONS

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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
After doing my own research on immortality I have found biomedical gerontology to be the most promising area of study out of all the others of extending human life spans within our own life times, specifically Dr. Aubrey de Grey and the research being done at his SENS Foundation in California.

I support the cause of immortality because not dying is my life goal, I love life and would never get bored. There is simply too much to do, to learn, to experience for me to ever get bored with life. Thats why I find it absurd when people say they would get bored if they lived forever, how can you possibly get bored?
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there are few immortals but they are not in physical form..i have heard of immortal people who can still be contacted
but i wont waste your time..go on
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 66286386


Please....please....expand on that..
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 27420690


you wont believe me if i tell you
but certain practices and lot of factors which are not under our control can make a man immortal
like hathayoga can easily increase life span by 300-400 years but you need very good teacher and constant practice

apart from that,there are certain secret ways which make person immortal..there are still immortal people in world but their numbers are very small..something like 7-10 people are alive from last 15000 years..looks like fairy tale but they can be contacted
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 66286386


could you give more info on that please?
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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
It's foolishness. Life happens in all planes of existance and this plane is the "less fun" of them all.

Anyway, in a purely materialistic point of view, it depends on how are you going to live this "endless" life.

You want to stay immortal at the peak of your 30's vitality or as a 16 year old tetraplegic?
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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
Indefinite lifespan wouldn't mean immortality.
If you don't die of old age or an illness you will eventually die of an accident or violence.
Only a very small percentage would see their 1,000s birthday.
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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
Indefinite lifespan wouldn't mean immortality.
If you don't die of old age or an illness you will eventually die of an accident or violence.
Only a very small percentage would see their 1,000s birthday.
book
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Unless you create multiple backup copies of your mind and place them in secure secret locations throughout the galaxy.
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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
So when you say live forever you really mean work forever. I don't see how that is a good thing. If we were all to live forever while continuing to reproduce at the same time technology moves forward reducing the number of workers needed we will end up with generations of unemployed. This then leads to a drain on the economy through welfare/aid which then forces those working to hand over more and more of their earnings causing them to live an impoverished life style. I will pass on your world of living forever. We must all die to make room for our children to make lives for themselves and hopefully learning from our mistakes and making the world a better place. Living forever is a scam to enslave the population while the rich elite do become gods.
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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
OP.

I am actually Jesus THE jesus , better known here as the nobody.

i am posting on your thread because this is the highlight of my knowledge!

The only think that really makes me Jesus is the fact that i have returned to lead my followers to the tree of life.

I am here to teach you how you will live a life just as methuselah. you can live for 969 years just as he did.

and then
i am also here to teach you how beyond the physical , i can teach you what eternal life is, and you shall not see death!!!!



There is no other man here or on this earth who has this knowledge.

just me the boring ole nobody.


what u want me to do!?!?!?


teach the whole world? easier said than done.
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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
Indefinite lifespan wouldn't mean immortality.
If you don't die of old age or an illness you will eventually die of an accident or violence.
Only a very small percentage would see their 1,000s birthday.
book
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Unless you create multiple backup copies of your mind and place them in secure secret locations throughout the galaxy.
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A copy of me is not me.
Just someone who thinks is me.
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Re: What do you think about the prospects for indefinite lifespans? Immortality.
Death can be a good thing.

Let's say a kidnapper abducts a child, and decides to torture her in an underground cellar.

If there's no death, the kidnapper could potentially abuse and torture the person for thousands of years.





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