Knowledge of our own mortality can be one of the largest fear-provoking thought exercises and motivating forces. One way this motivates scientists is to try and solve the riddles of aging, and the once science-fiction idea of immortality has become something that may actually be in reach.
If any of this is interesting to you, then take a look at this recent piece from CBS news on the advances in aging research. If some sort of procedure ever actually makes living indefinitely possible, it will be quite interesting to see how people make decisions regarding it.
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“Can Humans Live Forever?”
Obviously not. The universe itself will end. Before that, the last star will burn out. Before that, the Sun will burn out. Before that, it will flare up and bake the earth. Before that… well, you get the idea.
If you’re bothered about intimations of mortality, try reading Tolstoy’s “Confession.”
I would think it goes without saying that living longer is only desirable if we can maintain health, too. Who would want to be old and infirm for decades?
Obviously, we can’t outlive the universe (unless there is somewhere else to escape to or ourselves in the remote future can somehow build someplace else) and we can’t outlive the Earth unless we can escape to other planets. In fact, we probably couldn’t last more than a couple of thousand years before having *some* sort of fatal accident. But living a couple of thousand years as opposed to 70 or 80 is *almost* forever, subjectively.
The universe doesn’t die dipshit, ever heard the term matter cannot be created nor destroyed? Next your going 2 say time can be destroyed.
As what I read, being able to live for a very long time would not be good. Defects in the cell reproduction would inevitable surface. Such defects would not be a pretty sight.
It is true that the universe will not end but stars do, and even the balk holes has its end as well. What is left is just a sea of electrons and some other particles.
there was a doctor in usa that said there is no reason why we die, we should be able to live forever but for some reason our body and cells just shut down.
O.k. so in my opinion–humans so far dont even know the full potential of the human body and its capabilities. For example, Im not sure if scientists have the question to why we(right now) only have the potential to use One third of the brain. think about that for a second, if if einstein used 1/3 and he was one of the greatest minds…what does the other 2/3rds of the mind hold? the possibilities could go far past just living forever.
i wanna live fo’ever
Well yes we will die but i wish som would hurry up and make something to make humans live longer or maybe even forever.
I read an article and some scientists have actually found a way to lengthen human’s live up to 30-50% and it might be out in the market in 5-10years time! Just about the age I could get them (I’m 14 now and I would be most probably just in time to get them), although it wouldn’t make us live forever! I hope it’s sooooo true! Cuz I dun reli like the sound of DYING!
Think about time as a bunch of moments that stay forever. If it is possible to do time travel then there is no way someone can go into the past and interact with dead people. So you have to be alive even though that past is your current ‘present’ and the people interacting with you would be your future even though you cant interact with them during thier ‘present’. This kind leads into the next point someone mentioned with the theory of matter which can never destroyed it just changes form. Pretty much the only way we die is if we think of time as being a line like born->live-> death. We have an innate fear of nothing because what we think of ourselves will is always changing from you growing up to growing wrinkles and rotting from which those remains are reborn into something else like a plant. Basically you may lose your ability to collect and connect complex thought. But the body you have is symbolic of life which never dies-its always ressurected in another form. So technically speaking something of you lives on forever while part of you dies. With manipulation of time and stuff you might be able to live in a state most closely related to your current form indefinately. There is a spiritual element to all of it where life comes from death but your death allows new life to grow. Some religons say your soul goes to heaven which means there is always a positive growth of life…life and death dont cancel each other out. Death doesnt even exist. Anyway the whole concept of life and death is so far beyond our understanding and fear leads us to make assumptions. Kind of like how a dog puts its tail between its legs when it hears a loud noise even though we tune it out like it were ‘white noise’ because we can understand where it came from and that fearing it would be utter stupidity.
Hi Everyone, How are you guys? I’ve seen the movie of Tucker. It is really good, because it was about the two boys can live forever. I believe that god sent people here to learn something, it is not all about just living on the earth. If someone is smart enough to make something and research how everything works for humans’bodies and everything about it. I would want to be able to see God too. I would also want to see how everything change in the future. I know this would be bizarr to tell you thing, but there might be some flying cars, you know? I mean that would be great. Anyways back to this, yeah i would want to live forever, but i believe someone can figure how to deal with our cells where we don’t grow old and have winkle skins.
Hi Everyone, How are you guys? I’ve seen the movie of Tucker. It is really good, because it was about the two boys can live forever. I believe that god sent people here to learn something, it is not all about just living on the earth. If someone is smart enough to make something and research how everything works for humans’ bodies and everything about it. I would want to be able to see God too. I would also want to see how everything change in the future. I know this would be bizarr to tell you this, but there might be some flying cars, you know? I mean that would be great. Anyways back to this, yeah i would want to live forever, but i believe someone can figure how to deal with our cells where we don’t grow old and have winkle skins.
sorry about the first one, i messed up.
p.s God rocks and I love him very much! Without Him, i don’t know where i would be! GOD IS AMAZING!
Oh & I would not want to live forever if we would look so old! I would rather to stay young forever at least in our twenties.
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well people no matter how advance we get, when it comes right down to it, we really don’t whant to live for ever, for you see even the great sun dies, the best and most expensive stuff rots or eventualy gets destroyed, so imagine for a moment a future in wich there aren’t 6 billion humans but double, or triple that amount, where you would only be a mere #. From my perspective having an end is well sad, but is the way of life we come and have our own experiance, and leave this world with more knoledge, and understanding for future generations to come, the point is we would be exausted and would eventually seek eternal rest, after we accomplished our goals or dreams. Hope you comprehend what i’m trying to say.
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“me: The universe doesn’t die dipshit, ever heard the term matter cannot be created nor destroyed? Next your going 2 say time can be destroyed.”
Evidence strongly suggests the universe will die. You’re correct that matter cannot be created or destroyed (though this point is debatable…) but it can fizzle away into other forms. All around us every particle that constitutes everything is decaying and will forever continue to do so. Before you make such an insulting an ignorant comment, please do SOME research. I’ll point you in the right direction kid. Start will goggling “the big freeze universe”, “infinite entropy”, or “heat death”. Dipshit.
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