[Red Badger]

More info here:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-163400-test-that-tells-you-how-long-youll-live-2284639.html

[r9etb]

This should set up an interesting contest between people and their insurance companies....

[Logic n' Reason]

So.................I zip in, get my blood tested.

The doc calls me and tells me he has the results.

I go see the doc, and he looks at me very surprised.

I say, "why the surprise doc???"

He says...."because according to your blood test, you died four years ago!!!"

Now what??????????

[oh8eleven]

I think just knowing your family history is pretty accurate too.

[UCANSEE2]

And they though palm readers were crazy.

[Sacajaweau]

Unless you get hit by a car, fall off a ledge, bump your knee, have a stroke, get hit by lightening, fall in the tub, get shot during a bank robbery......

[Vermont Lt]

So if it comes out short, I can stop this foolish exercise, diet, and start smoking and drinking again.

And screw the credit card bills. Come get all that crap back from me.

Yahoo!

[Little Ray]

I think the headline, properly written, would have been more along the lines of “...how long you COULD live.”
After all, your telomere count has is noting to do with you from getting hit by a train or catching pneumonia.

[RnMomof7]

Does that figure into getting hit by a car :)

[Morpheus2009]

Okay, well all the telomeres do say, is how “original” your blood cells are, or how many replications, or generations they are from the original embryonic cells you originated from at conception. Supposedly this tells how advanced your aging is. This test means nothing if you suddenly get a benign tumor detected, end up in a serious automobile accident, or other events that can occur aside from your natural aging.

[blueunicorn6]

Down in Mexico, the marijuana dealers can tell by your blood how long you’ll live. When the blood quits pumping out of the top of your neck where your head used to be, you can pretty much be sure you’re dead. Marijuana use in the US has never hurt anyone.

[goseminoles]

I actually wouldn’t want to know. This is.morally wrong.

[RedMDer]

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[PLD]

It will tell you how long you will live if you are not murdered, run over by a car Etc..I want mine to be a surprise..And wouldn't this cause people to be a nervous wreck before the grim reaper visited you..No I have been near the valley of the shadow of death twice now so I can live not knowing when the end will come..

[freekitty]

What? This test knows if you are going to get run over by a bus?

[Gator113]

I would rather be surprised.

[Salamander]

Am I the only one thinking of the Viking “Web of Wyrd” woven at your birth?

The skein of your life is measured, finite and predetermined.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Telomeres...teloshmeres...I already know all there is to know about my future.

[21stCenturion]

Robert Heinlein published a short story, “Life Line”, in 1939 in which such a ‘test’ was introduced by a Dr. Pinero.

Complications ensue ...

I believe it was his first ever published story.

[Tailback]

Coming soon, the government installed death panel indicator.