Regenerative breakthrough ? Scientists identify gene responsible for aging .

[ThatOwlWoman]

Yes, immortality is stretching the advances a tad. Food for philosophical thought though.

Yes. I asked my dad once, when he was in his early 80s, what it was like coming to be his age. He said the usual aches and pains of joints and stuff was nothing. What he thought was the worst about aging was seeing his family, neighbors, friends, former coworkers, celebrities from his younger years, one by one pass away. At least if we all had immortality of a sort that wouldn't be so hard to face. OTOH how could the planet sustain 8 billion humans (and counting) who never die?

[moon]

Yes. I asked my dad once, when he was in his early 80s, what it was like coming to be his age. He said the usual aches and pains of joints and stuff was nothing. What he thought was the worst about aging was seeing his family, neighbors, friends, former coworkers, celebrities from his younger years, one by one pass away. At least if we all had immortality of a sort that wouldn't be so hard to face. OTOH how could the planet sustain 8 billion humans (and counting) who never die?

Right. It would become a choice between immortality or new birth.

[PostmodernProphet]

I don't want to live forever if it cannot keep me looking hot!

lol.....you may as well die now......

[PostmodernProphet]

my dad died at 95......he once commented that he hated the fact that all the old people walking up and down the hallway of the nursing home hadn't been born yet when he turned 21.....

[CFM]

Don't you think that chemical processes and time are inseparable ?

You're going to age by way of a calendar regardless of any chemical process.

[BidenPresident]

So then.......who gets to be immortal ?

Why would anyone want to be immortal?

[Micawber]

A non hot life would be unbearable. I'm going to need lot's of nip and tuck and tinctures and emollients
smushed into my skin to maintain my fox status into my mid hundreds. And botox, the immortal formulation.
And hair. What's hair on a 500 year old look like?

[moon]

You're going to age by way of a calendar regardless of any chemical process.

Yes, of course.

[moon]

Why would anyone want to be immortal?

Well....I've got lots of things to do.

[AProudLefty]

What a wasted study. What causes people to age is called a calendar.

Are you dumb?

[AProudLefty]

So then.......who gets to be immortal ?

Be careful what you wish for.

[Micawber]

Why would anyone want to be immortal?

This. ^

To stomp on republicans forever?

[CFM]

Are you dumb?

Just like me, boy, you're one day older than you were yesterday. If you don't believe that, you're dumb.

[CFM]

This. ^

To stomp on republicans forever?

You haven't stomped anyone yet, boy. In fact, when your baseless claim was rejected due to lack of evidence, you ran into hiding.

[CFM]

Yes, of course.

AProudLefty doesn't believe it.