http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/diet.fit ... index.html

An interesting article about Ray Kurzweil and his ideas, and new book about attaining immortality.

So I ask, would you seriously want to live forever, or just longer?

Personally, I wouldnt mind seeing 2100, but to do that I would be 131 years old. Knowing what we do now about medicine and disease, what kind of life could a person expect post 100. Would it be worth living?

only if i didn't age - if i was stuck being old and feeble the whole time, probably not.

if i could just stay a certain age forever, then sure.

I'm having enough trouble preparing myself for a lifetime of dissapointments. I'm not sure I could take that for much more than 70, 80 years...

How does he find the time to take all of those supplements every day?

hell no.

According to Kurzweil, you would still age, you just wouldn't die... does that make sense? I take it as, you would appear older, but your body would be "helped" by science/nanotech/medicine.

I dont take it to mean you look like 25 forever.

If I could be in the shape I was in in 1988, sure, bring on the forever. I was hot. Now? Gimme a break. Too many health problems.

I think disappointment would be easier to take, if I knew I was going to live forever - setbacks wouldn't feel like a waste of my time, and it would be much easier to see the big picture and not get troubled over little things...

I fear baldness far more than death.

Apparently more 65's+ commit suicide than any other age band.

My 4th all time favorite CD is called "Spiritual Machines" by Our Lady Peace, and its a concept record based on Ray Kurzweil's book "The Age of Spiritual Machines". For the CD, he read some passgaes of the book for seques in between songs....This one stood out on this particular topic...

"Take death for example.
A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it.
We make extraordinary efforts to delay it and often consider
its intrusion a tragic event.
Yet we'd find it hard to live without it.
Death gives meaning to our lives. It
gives importance and value to time.
Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.
If death were indefinitely put off, the human psyche would end
up, well, like the gambler in the "Twilight Zone" episode. "

Hell yes as long as my brain an communicative functions were still in tact. I could acquire more information than anyone ever.

short answer: yes.

If I was some kind of pimped-out Nosferatu-Eurotrash-Black Hapsburg, with unlimted supplies of money and nubile young women: HEEEEEEL YEEEAH.

Like my life now: maybe, I'm on an upswing.

As a vegetable in a catatonic state, shitting and pissing myself, but still technically alive, or even Matrix like in some kind of growth bubble: Nope.

If I were Duncan Macleod, yes.

If I were Mr. Burns, no.

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Result of huffing Krylon

sure. nothing like an eternity of underacheivement.

yes, and i would suck social security DRY

Nah - after 25+ years, everything still hits about the same - plus, I'm sure that dissapointments/passions wouldn't change much as I get older...

Of course, I'm basing all of this on "Being John Malkovitch", minus the peeing orange while sitting down "like a little girl" part...

This would totally suck for those people who get those sentences of 200,000 years of prison or whatever.