Would you want to live to 140?

[naomi24]

http://www.dailymail....ecret-living-140.html

[boxtops]

if we could live that long but still have all our faculties, and bits not falling apart or dropping off, then it's an interesting proposal. My mother went to the optician in her 90s and was told that the eyeball is only made to function for about 80 years - I don't know if that's true, but it's possible to imagine that cells have a certain use-by date. The pension implications will be enormous!

[rowanwitch]

Live to 140 would mean working to 120 or thereabouts.... and the world could not afford it without measures to control population,,,,,, because people would know they had so much time the motivation to do things would be far less ..... Extending the lives of key people might be worthwhile..but who would chose....a lesser extension might be nice if the aging process was slowed too but at the moment we probably live far longer than we were meant to....as far as I am aware there are few other cases in nature where members of a species survive so long after their reproductive lives are over,,,,I believe only elephant, and possibly the larger primates but not to the extent we have managed it.....

[Gromit]

From the Daily Mail's Chinese correspondent perhaps?:

// They also noticed that the fries seems to be fitter and healthier //

[jno]

your cells start slowly switching off after you're about 30 - by which time your genes suppose you've reproduced, thus ensuring their own continuation. Gerontologists are always looking for the switch to see if they can in effect tape it in the On position. The side-effects would be considerable, though: twice as many people at any given time; society would have to completely rethink itself.

[pilotlight]

100 would do for me, then to go very quickly. - - - - being shot by a jealous husband !

[rov1200]

Maybe its a way of solving the shortage of burial places: for a few years anway.