Re: longevity in 20 years

From: Joann Evans (bondage_at_frontiernet.net)
Date: 01/19/05 

Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:01:05 GMT

imbibe@mindspring.com wrote:
>
> James Hollingshead wrote:
>
> > "Philip" <quilan@delrio.com> writes:
> > >
> > > Philip wrote in message ...
> > >>Who believs in 20 years we will live to be 200 yrs old and beyond
> >
> > I doubt it somehow :(. If you look at what medicine has done it has
> > not actually increased people's maximum lifetimes - even 500 years
> ago
> > there were one or too people who were lucky enough never to get any
> > serious diseases who made it to 100. Modern medicine / general
> > improved living standards stop a lot of people dying while they are
> > still young, but it has made no difference to the maximum limit of
> > around 100 or so.
>
> We need to stop making flu vaccines and stop killing
> infected birds, so more people can reach a timely and
> merciful end. We have so many things that were luxuries
> or nonexistent just 100 or 200 years ago; we should be
> satisfied with moderate, rather than extreme longevity.
>
> --

   Are you volunteering to be first to refuse treatment? What makes you
think death by infection is 'merciful?' Depending on the particular
infection, it can be a very messy way to go.

   In any case, speak for yourself.

   Go to: news:sci.life-extension for ongoing discussion. 

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