The Quest for Immortality -

[SFGurrilla]

Aubrey de Grey, Nick Bostrom and Anders Sandberg

The three men who may have found the biological fountain of youth. If this ever happens, death may not be a problem anymore.
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YouTube - Quest for immortality (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfTqXL0d9Ls&feature=related)

[keeko]

interesting, but whats life if there is no death?

[SFGurrilla]

interesting, but whats life if there is no death?

Immortality.

[ghosty]

I read a fictional book for school once, if I could only remember the title, about a man who in his twenties had drank from the fountain of youth when he was younger. He talked about how for the first while it was great cause he kpet in good health and feeling young. But then in later years he came to regret it, because all of his friends and family grew up, moved on, and eventually died and he would remain. He also had to keep relocating himself every so often because over years of being in the same place people would become suspicious of his eternal youth and begin to question why he didn't age. It didn't sound like a lot of fun.

I think death is a necessary part of life. It helps if you look at death as not an end, but a transition. Death is the transition stage between this life on earth, and he afterlife, or reincarnation whatever you may believe. By denying that phase, you are denying the progression of your soul...

[dragonrider]

Even if we find a way to prevent aging, we will all die someday. It just wouldn't be from aging --- it would be from injury, accident, disaster, or some kind of incurable illness.

Wouldn't it be wierd if that's the only way people died, suddenly from accidents?

"Did you hear about Bob? He DIED the other day when his hovercar ran out of plutonium and just fell out of the sky!"

"Oh my God! What a shock! And he was only 275 --- so young!"

[NextLineIsMine]

I read a fictional book for school once, if I could only remember the title, about a man who in his twenties had drank from the fountain of youth when he was younger. He talked about how for the first while it was great cause he kpet in good health and feeling young. But then in later years he came to regret it, because all of his friends and family grew up, moved on, and eventually died and he would remain. He also had to keep relocating himself every so often because over years of being in the same place people would become suspicious of his eternal youth and begin to question why he didn't age. It didn't sound like a lot of fun.

I think death is a necessary part of life. It helps if you look at death as not an end, but a transition. Death is the transition stage between this life on earth, and he afterlife, or reincarnation whatever you may believe. By denying that phase, you are denying the progression of your soul...

yeah... but what if you believe death is oblivion, and you dont believe in souls, only brains. Then you would be fully in your right to be terrified of death

[dragonrider]

If someone found a cure for aging and made it available to everyone, we would have some serious problems in no time at all. Our population would explode exponentially. Likely we would all end up dying of starvation instead of old age.

Death pursues us, but it also opens a path in front of us. If the old did not die, there would be no room for the young.

I don't think I would want to refuse the cure, but what would we do?

[dutchy420]

I think this would cause a major population issue...especially considering resources are running low.