people can maybe live for thousands of years=should we?

No, no, no!

It's a good thing that we die, and it's bad enough that we live as long as we do. Can you even imagine 30 or so generations all living at the same time, with all of them trying to impose their own generation's cultural, moral, and social standards on everyone else? Christ, I can think of 10 other reasons humans should never average past the 100 year mark off the top of my head. Bad, bad, bad idea.

i'd only want maybe 300...... and can you still live a normal life, or are you like today's average 90 year old, getting around is hard and such.

I will live as long as my body lets me. When I'm too old to function, for God's sake let it end.

The human brain perceives time differently as it ages. Remember how when you were 10 a five minute timeout was an eternity, and now five minutes is taken up in a flash? Multiply that perception of time by 100. You would perceive a day as an hour. There is no point in such a long existence.

I was watching that's impossibe show and they were talking about how people could very soon live for a thousand of years. They would do this by putting like nano-bots to kill off cancer and make repairs whenever necessary to our body and they would also keep replacing our organs. My question is this a good idea would you really want to live for a thousand year? I don't think it's a good idea because there is a reason that cancer and other diesases were put here to help control our population to make sure that evil people would not live forever to keep doing evil stuff and also our resources are already strained imagine if everyone could live that long how bad everything could get and relationships would become meaningless anyway Discuss l4dak47

I dont even want to live much pass 60, let alone 1000 yearstester962

I'd like to belive for 1000 years, but i have to be young and healthy.

Re-visit this question thousands of years from now, our knowledge is still too young.

The catch-22 about living (for animals anyway, the other kingdoms of life don't really have these problems as bad) is that the very processes that it takes to live are also the same processes that will kill you.

For example, one of the byproducts of cellular respiration is hydrogen peroxide. Your body is good about removing this as quickly as possible but after 60 years or so of being subjected to minute amounts of it your tissue starts to degrade causing skin wrinkles among other things.

Another example is breathing. Yes, every breath you take is literally taking you one step closer to your last. You see, oxygen is actually not good for you. It's a very potent biotoxin and was responsible for nearly killing off all life on Earth when the atmosphere suddenly become inundated with it (long story). The only reason life uses it today is because 1) life had to adapt or die to the new oxygen-rich environment which meant coming up with a way to detoxify oxygen, and 2) oxygen provides much better methods of cellular respiration. Unfortunately, each oxygen molecule also comes packaged with two free radicals (contrary to what you learned in high school chemistry, O2 is not a double bonded molecule. It is, in actuality, a single bonded molecule with a radical on each atom although it does behave like a double bonded molecule in most cases). And free radicals are extremely reactive. This results in oxygen reacting with your DNA which is a fancy way of saying it destroys it.

So unless these nanobots know how to repair damaged DNA and counteract all the suicidal crap that your body does to itself, we aren't living to 1,000 anytime soon.

I think I would. As far as we know there's nothing on the other side.

Who wants to live forever, when love must die?