viewzone.com — Human Immortality: A Scientific Reality? From the moment of birth, we begin the battle against death -- against the inevitable. Statistics say that a newborn child can expect to live an average of 76 years. But averages may not be what they use to be
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stevethegreatFeb 17, 2007
Why?
stevethegreatFeb 17, 2007
Let's put our faith on Ra ...
iambuttonFeb 17, 2007
Living Forever : Thumbs up? or Thumbs down?
aimlessabyssFeb 18, 2007
It seems like this would make sense. I mean, if people born in 1900 are still alive today, imagine how long the average baby born in the year 2000 will live. Given the better technology (vaccinations, medicine, surgeries, safety measures, food supply/quality, etc.) as well as the possibility of cloning or reproducing your own organs; I wouldn't be surprised if the average life expectancy rose to 100 or more. I think people will continue to live longer, but only up to a point, you know you can't live forever.
rydbergFeb 20, 2007
Actually, life expectancy for a newborn now, is already 100 years of age.By the way, I second the recommendaitons on SENS and ImmortalityInternational.com
xisterMar 5, 2007
I uh... was just joking- it's the line from "Fight Club" He intoned that you'll die in an accident or some sort of mishap if you live long enough, so by that reasoning I say again; on a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. (I mean, come on- the universe has to end sometime)
xisterMar 5, 2007
No doubt- I grew up in a very rural area in PA. and there are some old graveyards in that area from the 1700/1800's. Out of 50 or so stones in each cemetary, about 10 or so in each (if I remember correctly) had the same birth/death year. I couldn't figure out why so many had only one year for a minute, then it hit me.
xisterMar 5, 2007
Duh, not if they were immortal too...
tokyodMar 7, 2007
epic, I don't YET hold a PhD in molecular biology, but that is beside the point. Any slightly informed person could point out the gaping holes and lies in that article.
headsinkDec 30, 2007
I'm not a doctor or something, but what I witness was a different thing. Foreign western food made life my grandfather died early. His grandfather can live well over 130 years old, I don't care if anyone want to believe it or not and his mother lived around 110. I realised that air pollution made my grandfather died early at the age of 95. Plus the fatty western food.
evgeniy13Mar 18, 2009
and the sooner - the better, for some homemade philosophers )