Comment on Living to 120 is becoming an imaginable prospect
MonkRome@lemmy.world 8 months agoI would happily live 500 years if I could keep the quality of life prior to old age. The issue isn’t a number, it’s what your life is like in those last 20 years. I can’t imagine we will regularly get to 120 without slowing the aging process, which would improve quality of life.
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve not been enjoying the last 30 all that much, I don’t think I want another 90 or nearly that far even
MonkRome@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve enjoyed a fairly privileged life in recent years so I suppose that changes my perspective. I fully recognize that not everyone is dealt a fair hand, whether it be financial or the chemicals in ones brain. Though even when I was poor, I always valued a long life. There are so many interesting things in the world, I want to live long just to see what happens to humans. Will we get over our fundamental flaws as a species, will we make it to being a space faring civilization? Will we protect the environment and create artificial consciousness? Also I value new experiences and life always offers more.