Skeleton Cure

[Nightcrewman]

That's exactly the plot of the movie ' I Am Legend, ' except they cured cancer instead of all diseases and the disease turned people into some subhuman creatures who couldn't be exposed to light.

That sounds like our nightcrew LOL

NCM

[Chufty]

Good idea for a story. Are you thinking about a short story or a novel-length book?

If the life expectancy were to rise suddenly, it would not take long at all for some very serious population problems to begin happening. The planet is already very overpopulated. We are already running low on fresh water, and water will be a big problem before food is. The oceans are overfished, so any more stress on those ocean ecosystems, and the major fisheries will completely collapse as they have already done in some areas.

Some other ideas: We already have some social problems because of longer life expectancies. In the US, when the Social Security system was estabilshed, most people didn't live to 65, and those who did, didn't live much longer than that. So setting 65 as the age when you could start collecting benefits did not put much of a burden on those working to support the system. And it just meant that the very oldest people did not have to work into their very last days. Now the life expectancy is over 80, and it goes up something like 3 months every year. People go on Social Security and live on it for years. It is beginining to cost huge amounts of money to support people on this porgam for so many years. If life expectancy suddenly jumped to 100, there would be some major disruption to programs of this sort.

It started out as a short story, basically i always used to have a bit of a talent for writing, but i could never think of what to write, i just seemed to have no knack for the ideas side of it. I decided a few weeks ago to force myself to come up with something as i just wanted to write again. I started off with a terrible idea and evetually i turned it into the current one, but as that's happened the story just seems to keep growing!! So i'm going to write it with no expectations and see where it takes me.

I like the social security idea, maybe the government could retract all benefits to the over 65's as an emergency measure, effectively leaving the 'golden generation' to die.

See what i mean about the story just growing? There are so many possible stories within the story!

[Trip06]

Well If we got that big of a population where we ran outa food, im pretty sure we would have to start eating sea weeds. You know there is a lot of sea weeds down there. I hope you like your greens.

[Weekend_Warrior]

That does sound kind of like a story or movie ive seen before...
But you should still go for it bro :thumbsup:

[Blazed Deafy]

i can imagine that the life expectancy being extended to like 125 years old sometime soon our entire society will change who knows we will be gettin married in late 30s or 40s bc we have chance to experience life. im sure the elders will be revered for their wisdom and im sure some young'uns will be gettin laid at early age due to vast knowledge and education being instilled to kids. i dont know what else. maybe lower divorce rate? because nobody wants to get married knowin that they can live longer and live the life to fullest. be safe and stay high...:jointsmile:

[zeitgeist]

Maybe a formula for the fountain of youth is found. People will begin running out of space and then some of the population begins to migrate to another planet. Everything seems all good until a massive war breaks out between the two planets ultimately causeing destruction to both planets. That wold seem kinda cool to me