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Think how expensive all those birthday/christmas presents would be for your 100 children
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Posted: 2005-03-15 11:14:20
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Hopefully if we lived to 1,000 we might take better care of the planet and start less wars, as the saying 'life's too short' will no longer apply, people may actually start thinking long term instead of just in front of their noses then burying their heads in the sand!
Mind you, I suspect you'd get bored after the first couple of hundred years, I think I'd like to live to be 200, but maybe not 1,000.
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Posted: 2005-03-15 11:17:10
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theyre playing with nature. you'll never beat it.
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Posted: 2005-03-15 11:19:58
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On 2005-03-15 04:00:57, govigov wrote:
Who would want to live til 1000? I think the right are to die is around 65-70.
That's not even considered that old in Europe! Most people here die around 80 or so and it isn't at all uncommon for someone to live quite happily to 90. There ar emore and more cases of people reach and passing the 100 mark when they get avery nice telegram from the Queen.
The oldest recorded human being lived to be 122, which doesn't seem too far off what many people reach at the moment, certainly one can imagine that in fifty years or so 122 may be a standard figure for life expectancy.
Living to 1,000 would drastically alter our culture. Procreation would have to fall to marginal levels, perhaps each couple only giving birth once in a millenium.
Our professional lives would alter dramatically, how does one advance in a job if the chap above one is likely to be in the job for 500 years? Would people work that long? Would we all do different things? Money would almost certainly have to be abolished; who would want to be poor for 1,000 years? Even if money weren't abolished it would be irrelevent because one could save up and become very rich over the course of 1,000 years.
There are too many problems for this to occur over night, it will be a gradual process and not really applicable until we have the social responsibility necessary to make it work, ot to mention the science too!
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[ This Message was edited by: scotsboyuk on 2005-03-15 10:26 ]
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Posted: 2005-03-15 11:25:40
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my Great Great Aunt Eva, lived till the age of 114. she was the oldest person in the world at the time (1999-2000) she was in the guiness book of records too. She lived in Stone, Staffordshire and said its because she has a tipple of whisky in her tea everyday. (was in The Sun newspaper for that too!)
It was amazing to meet and speak to someone that lived in the 1800's.
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Posted: 2005-03-15 11:30:51
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@scots...
the point i am arguing is, i would rather die at the age of say 60-70 when my health just starts to detiorate.... if i were to live upto say a 100, i wud be a burden to my family and myself, who wud have to help me to get upto go to the bathroom even to pee or worse, be made to pee and shit in a basin that no one dares touches, but someone will do it because they cant stand the stench any longer... you will be confined in a room filled with white clothes and the whole room will smell of medicine and feels sickly, i cant bearely read and i am having a hard time remembering faces...
i would rather die than lead such a pathetic live, being a burden to most ppl around me
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Posted: 2005-03-15 11:35:44
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waste money on trying to live longer when there is still no cure for aids or cancer.
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Posted: 2005-03-15 11:53:08
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I think many people would love to live to 100 or 120, as long as it was in good health. I've worked on elderly wards and seen how some people's health can really affect their life, and be almost totally dependent on others, which I would hate to be. I'd rather die at 75 in relatively good health than live to 100 but spend the last 20 years of my life bedbound.
Interesting points there scotsboy, you could equally say though that people could get themselves into one hell of a lot of debt over 1,000 years as well! Imagine all the credit cards you could run up in that time.
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Posted: 2005-03-15 11:55:43
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@govigov
The majority of Europeans in their 70's are actually in reasonably good health, certainly not a burden to their families. Most people in their 80's aren't in care homes and quite a number of them are still working and in very good health.
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Posted: 2005-03-15 11:56:00
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scots, how old was mr churchill when he passed away?
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Posted: 2005-03-15 12:07:09
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