[2ndDivisionVet]

FULL TITLE: Would YOU choose to live forever? Age-reversing pill that Nasa wants to give to astronauts on Mars will begin human trials within six months

[Jonty30]

I would choose to live forever. Imagine what it might have been like to live in any of the world renowned cities from the time they were horse stables and watch them grow to become metropolises.

[heights]

Well, since I know there is an Afterlife ( NDE and other evidence) I would have to be insane to remain alive.

[Olog-hai]

No such thing. Temporary repair of DNA can only extend life, not create immortality.

It’ll be like Bilbo Baggins’ feeling after the One Ring extended his life: you’ll feel “thin, sort of stretched, like (too little) butter scraped over too much bread”.

[ducttape45]

I think I remember a TV series called “The Highlander.” People who (almost) lived forever.

[Fungi]

Christ solved it, just a question of accepting it.

[mom4melody]

If I could maintain my looks, yes.

The minute I go sea hag, I’m doing a Thelma and Louise.

[CaptainK]

Such a thing will never happen.
Longer lives, probably.
Forever, never.

[nickedknack]

Already have chosen to live forever. Eternal life? Check.

[Pollster1]

What’s the downside?

Dorian Gray?

Dracula?

Your wife lives forever too but turns into Hillary?

[Pearls Before Swine]

There’s a range between fourscore and ten and forever.

Wouldn’t it be nice to (using a phrase of Aragorn’s from Lord of the Rings) be able to give back the gift at an appropriate time of your choosing?

[Crash Fistfight]

We just want to cure for cancer released.

[Two Kids' Dad]

Assuming the pills only had a limited term effect and would have to be taken in regular doses to prolong a person’s lifespan, I’d consider it. But what if a person ran out of pills? Would the years catch up at an accelerated rate or would they simply pick up where the pause left off?

And could I still retire at age 65 or 67 and collect benefits even if I’m going to live a hundred years beyond that?

[blackdog]

Just what we need. A pill to keep John McCain around for another thirty years?

At least the averages will work out. The increased early deaths by suicide over the thoughts of Nancy Pelosi and her pals never going away should more than make up for any gains.

[roadcat]

Would YOU choose to live forever?

For those on pensions, heck yeah! But forever would be cut short when the government pension fund goes broke. They'd pass a law against giving the pill to pensioners.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

FULL TITLE: Would YOU choose to live forever?

Of course I would. There's a lot I still want to do that I will never have time to get done. Maybe not forever - I'm sure I'd get tired of it at some point, but not for a few hundred years.

We're not even at the beginning of advances that will allow human being to live in good health far longer than they do now. Unfortunately, those advances aren't likely to arrive in time to benefit anyone alive today, regardless of what Ray Kurzweil says.

[WhatNot]

People will live forever....for about five months, and then they will seek death and desire to die, but they will not find death.

[TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed]

I have chosen to live forever.

You can make that choice, too.

Here is the way. Seriously.

http://october-5-2017.com/#welcome

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Live forever, probably not.

Live a little better with fewer aches and pains?

Sounds good.

[arthurus]

My understanding is that cell division is programmed in to only happen so many times and when the last batch wears out you die. SO perhaps we are not looking at an eternal life pill, but an lifelong youth pill.

[wastedyears]

I want to volunteer.