Anyone Want To Live Forever?

[pastafreak]

This millionaire does, and devotes his whole life to it. I'm not sure it's a good look...in fact he's quite off-putting. I suppose the researchers he's working with might gain some positive knowledge.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12155695/Tech-tycoon-Bryan-Johnson-hopes-80-pills-day-blueprint-thatll-save-mankind.html#reader-comments

Almost forgot...$2 million a year pays for it. It's like being a very expensive lab rat.

[roopower]

Not if I'd have to look like a female version of that. He looks like he's been photo shopped.

[Untitled]

i fear death hugely and do not want to die... but if i had that much money i could not justify spending it all on my body!!

if you're that wealthy then you have an obligation to help others imo... obscene to sit on that much money and spend it all on yourself

[nailedit]

I've never understood this idea of wanting to live forever.
(Had many a debate on Religion & Spirituality about this concept)
Life would become meaningless. You get to live forever. And?
It would be like a game of football that never ends, pointless!
Nature decrees that we are born, live a little and then die.
Its only the fact that we WILL die eventually that gives life any meaning...

[Old_Geezer]

Once upon a time the idea appealed, but as time went by and I understood more of how awful the human race is, not everyone but enough to spoil the barrel, the more I feel I'd rather find myself in a better place. Trouble is, if souls are clamouring to get born here, what does that imply for existence in any spiritual realm ? Plus the bad guys will be both preceding & following you there anyway.

[Old_Geezer]

I don't see how death gives meaning. At best it may give relief.

[DTCwordfan]

And look like this - no way -
https://www.dailynews.lk/sites/default/files/news/2022/10/26/1-5.jpg

And then imagine having to deal with TTT's, Gromit's and Gulliver's grandchildren here on OAP-AB.....

[DTCwordfan]

in short, and with the risk of Alzheimer's well entrenched in the family, bring on Dignitas.....

[nailedit]

//I don't see how death gives meaning. At best it may give relief. //
There is no meaning to either life or death except the one we give to it.
Currently visiting a friend in a 'care' home where he is dying of cancer,
Be surprised if he makes it another week at the moment.
It would indeed be a relief when he goes.

[vulcan42]

He also thinks strenuous exercise will also help. I've news for him, all exercise does is give you a better looking corpse.

[DTCwordfan]

Cancer, Alzheimer's and other similar term diseases do have one advantage and that is it prepares the family and close friends for their passing. It doesn't come as such a shock..... I have real sympathy for those who lose someone in a tragic accident etc., particularly if they are of a younger generation...now that is a shock because one is so unprepared.

[jno]

I wuoldn't mind living to 200, should the human race that long, but I suspect I'd look like other people born the same year as me: skeletal and not breathing too well. But he's really just trying to stay young-looking, and lots of people do that. He's not doing badly for 45.

[DTCwordfan]

Or shouldn't come as a shock......

[nailedit]

// all exercise does is give you a better looking corpse. //
I've said for ages that a healthy life-style, is only going to make you look foolish when you are on your death bed dying of nothing!

[Ken4155]

I'd hate the thought of outliving my 3 daughters and my son, and having to bury them, not to mention all grandkids and great grandkids and great great grandkids and............ Need i go on:-)

[Tilly2]

Hi, Nails. How're you doin'?

[jno]

you could always pass on the secret to them, Ken. But I was watching The Asphyx last night and it didn't go well.

[pastafreak]

He might succeed in looking young...with his flawless skin stretched over his boney jaws. But will he actually *feel* young?
Will he look back at all those endless years with a feeling of having accomplished something?
In the comments there's lots of speculation that a bus might get him...

[jno]

we could all live in terror that a bus might get us, but most of us don't; and it doesn't invalidate our lives if it happens.

[nailedit]

//Hi, Nails. How're you doin'? //
Still up 'Anley duck.... ;-)

[Tilly2]

Good.