[clee1]

Only the good die young. I'll be around for awhile.

[Grut]

On the other hand, Psalms 90:10 rather casually puts the normal lifespan at 70-80 years, just about where it is now. So if medicine is doing us so much good, howcome people aren't living any longer (or at least, dying of old age later) than they did in biblical times?

[ColdSteelTalon]

the first 150-year-old is quite likely also to be the first 1,000-year-old.

People in ancient times lived to be near 1000 years old.

[LauraleeBraswell]

That's scary. Imagine having someone like Hitler or Saddam or Osama bin Ladden around for 1000 years.

[Tax-chick]

Blech. This life going on forever would be hideous ... and I have a comfortable and happy life.

[andysandmikesmom]

Good grief...I will have to print this article out for my husband...he also thinks like this and has for a long time...he is just an average guy, no scientific training of any sort...but he has always believed that the human body, is like a car, and that it can always be fixed...he does believe that we should be able to live at least a couple of hundred years, and in relatively good health...

Yes, I am married to and live with a whacko....he has a lot of odd beliefs...its never dull around here, thats for sure...

[stylin19a]

Nothing wrong with dying...I just want to die last.

[Kirkwood]

I would be bored silly after the first couple hundred years.

[SamAdams76]

I'm going to die in a tequila drinking contest in 3734. Don't feel bad for me though. I brought it all upon myself.

[GSlob]

The immortality recipe is much easier and does not involve either gargantuan amounts of money or gene therapy; more, it has been available for ages.
Here it is pro bono, albeit FR might charge small royalty from nonmembers:
If one recalls all the dead people one has personally known, one would see that most of them were good people, and that one would normally be hard-pressed to remember a death of a scoundrel. From here it necessarily follows that the scoundrels are either immortal (since they do not die) or at very least enjoy unusual longevity.
Since becoming a scoundrel [if the reader is not one already] is manifestly within the powers of health-conscious person, it is self-evident that the solution to immortality quest is at hand, and available. QED.

[Imaverygooddriver]

The day people can live to be 1000 is the day I put a gun to my head. 5 minutes of Hitlery Rodaham in my face is already pushing that, but 1000 years? I`ll take a pass on that hell.

[Light Your World]

Well, if this happens, there's gonna be a lot of old people around..not just in age but in mental process. The world will seem a more dreary place.

(Not to mention the trouble Social Security will be having!)

[spinestein]

People living to the age of 1000 years?

This is NOT to be desired.

[Kirkwood]

I seem to recall a 60s tv show called "The Immortal" where the lead character couldn't die and he was constantly running away from the bad guys who wanted to experiment on him and learn his secret for immortality. It was sort of the flip side to "Run for Your Life" where the character had only months to live and tried to cram as much life in without getting involved in relationships.

[only1percent]

This story does a terrific job of summing up the speculation about the technology and the notion of the "escape velocity" -- i.e., that any set of technology which enables people to live to 130 will probably enable them to live indefinitely.

I've got no idea how probable any of this is, but it's just one of the (many) things which current economic and political theory has no imagination and no planning for.

Of course, one of the nifty things about the future is how what happens is always essentially unpredictable and completely radical from the standpoint of prior expectations.

[Imaverygooddriver]

This would never happen even if they could, because eventually you would have to ban sex and people would be knocking themselves off left and right than go centuries without getting laid. But on the other hand, into your second century everyone would start looking like Helen Thomas or Ted Kennedy, and I think sex would be the last thing on your mind by then. They wouldn`t be able to from the gagging. It would be a stunt on Fear factor or something.

[Lockbar]

I only have two words to say:

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Great. Living forever will be like watching "Fame" for the rest of eternity, LOL!

"I'm gonna live forever
I'm gonna learn how to fly
High

I feel it coming together
People will see me and cry
Fame

I'm gonna make it to heaven
Light up the sky like a flame
Fame

I'm gonna live forever
Baby remember my name

Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember
Remember..."

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

After she divorces Bill, I'm going to marry Hillary. I won't live forever, but it will seem like forever.

[workerbee]

There Can Be Only One.