Living Forever - our near future

[ChristIsTheWay]

I think that life extension will be successful but it will not result in the posthuman technological utopia of the transhumanists and other immortalists. Mostly, we’ll live longer, healthier lives. So maybe I’ll live to 120, or 200, or even longer. Eventually, though, I’ll get hit by a bus, upset the wrong guy, or put off getting treatment for what seemed like a minor illness. We humans simply can’t defeat death. It’ll always be lurking around the corner. To paraphrase a Star Trek quote, we can put off death with doctors and elixirs and what not, but death is the predator that will always catch up with us. Time is the fire in which we all burn. Only through Jesus Christ can we defeat it and truly live forever.

 

[m134e5]

Advances in science and technology have always interested me, such as the human genome project. This article of essays seems pretty confident that immortality will be arriving soon at your local hospital and drug store. Please take the 10mins to read through it and share your thoughts on what dilemmas this might bring. I do not know whether to view this as moral or immoral but it is hard to resist technology that may increase your lifespan “permanently”.

dimaggio.org/Eye-Openers/living_forever.htm

I get tired of seeing people make the same stupid mistakes over and over again and I’m still young. I cannot imagine how frustrating it would be to be 1000 years old and see people *still *making the same mistakes.

 

[John_Kearns]

And did your teacher tell you about the Rule of 78?)

Last time I checked it was the rule of 72? Where’d 78 come from?

 

[vern_humphrey]

Last time I checked it was the rule of 72? Where’d 78 come from?

Nope. 78. Try it yourself.

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