After reading the article about Google Ventures, would you want to live forever? To 500 years old? What may be some issues not considered by those who want to dramatically extend human life. Respond in a thoughtful manner.
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3/10/2015 02:22:18 am
In my opinion, people in our generation should live up to 145-150. one reason because of the type of technology that we have today. Most of the medicine can help people with major diseases and birth problems. Another reason is the amount of knowledge the world has with science. Science is a big factor in living until 145-150, and without it we would die much earlier then 60-70 years old.
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Nick Powers
3/26/2015 07:58:38 am
I think that the way you said how people should live "145-150" years isn't something you can really choose on your own. But i do agree that we have advanced enough to live longer then 60-70 years with medicine.
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Lauren Barczak
3/10/2015 02:38:05 am
After reading the article about Google Ventures I would not want to live forever, and not to live for 500 years. Some issues that may not be considered by those who would want to dramatically extend human life would be the amount of people living on Earth. If no one is dying until they turn 500 years the population will grow immensely fast. With more people living longer we will start to run out of resources at a faster rate. If we consume resources faster than we can produce them, people will start to die earlier than average of life expectancy. The Google Ventures will hurt more than it will help us.
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Michael Durst
3/10/2015 02:48:17 am
I would like to live forever. I just want to see all the new and exciting things the world has to offer. Anything from 5-star food to outstanding new movies. I also need to keep people from selling my belongings. I'd like to see more of the world. Europe, Asia, and Australia are all places I'd like to see. Although nothing can beat the Great Lakes of Michigan. I wouldn't want to live forever alone. I'd want my family with me, and that includes my dog, Oscar. I'd have all the time in the world to enjoy myself. I could take a ride in a submarine or go fishing like I always wanted. I'd love to take Oscar fishing with me just to see his reaction when I pull a fish out of the water. I wouldn't have to worry about cancer or diseases either. I could try all the new gourmet food and watch all the new TV shows as much as I want. One of the problems of living forever is that the world would become overpopulated. Unless they put a new law in that no one could have kids anymore. Maybe we would have to find a new planet. Earth can't be the only planet out there that can support life. A world where people could live forever could possibly end all wars or start new ones. Anyway I think it would be a good thing if people could live forever. In a perfect world there would be no fighting, no murder, no war, and no crime.
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Brandon Gann
3/10/2015 02:59:03 am
I think that living forever or to 500 would have it's pros and cons. One person that can live forever (fictionally) is Wolverine, the Marvel superhero, when ever I watch any of the movies that have Wolverine played by Hugh Jackman, I think of what it would be like to live forever. I've came to see both good and bad things in being able to live forever or for 500 years or so.
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Tony Colucci
3/10/2015 03:35:30 am
I would not want to live forever. Don't get me wrong, it's better than dying in most aspects, but 500 years on your back seems weird to me. I mean, after 20% of your maximum aging is complete, you have almost noithing left for you in life if you don't end up with a lasting career. Retirement would take literally forever to come, and if you do it at 70+ like normal, you're stuck in it forever unless decreasing aging also decreases the rate your body grows. Plus, what if it was JUST you who were able to live this long? By the time you know it, all you ever love for and care about will be long gone without you. Just because you're immortal doesn't make you immune to pain. These guys have good ambitions, but they're rather childish ones at that (in my opinion).
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Kara Gerniski
3/10/2015 04:01:20 am
In my opinion, I would not want to live forever. Especially not to 500 years old. There is issues that come along with living forever or until 500. For example, our population would get bigger and bigger and where we are living will become over populated. It would be very hard to get around and our resources that we need to live like food would run out pretty fast. I think Google Ventures should stop their search because i dont belive it will help us.
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Alyssa Ziemianski
3/10/2015 06:37:31 am
After reading the article, I've come to the decision that I would not want to live forever or live to be 500. If you had the chance to live forever, you wouldn't have anything to live for. Your life would be a repetition of the same thing every day after you retire. Although, if scientists were able to make a cure for ageing then the thought of eternal life doesn't sound so bad. If you were able to stop your body from ageing then I would want to live forever. Just because I would want to live forever doesn't mean that it is a good idea. There would be many complications to eternal life. If the entire world was able to live forever there would be too many people and too little space and resources. For these reasons, I feel that Google Ventures should not support eternal life.
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Amanda Bruce
3/10/2015 10:54:50 am
After reading this article, I decided that I would not want to live for 500 years or more. Once you hit a certain age, you won't be able to do as much things that you would like to do. I think that half of the population wouldn't even be able to drive or walk because of how old people would live up too. It would be nice to live up to 500 to meet grand children and so on but I would possibly also be miserable because I wouldn't be able to probably walk and do things on my own. The worlds population would also be over filled with people. It would be nice to see what will happen in 100 years but I just would not want to live that long.
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Jazmine Weiss
3/11/2015 02:21:37 am
I would only like to live forever or 500 years, If only I was not the only one. For everyone to live an average of 500 years, would be a great advancement on technology. . I feel like life would be much different. There would be ️obviously a lot more people in the world. From these advancements, the world may be very agitated and conflict rising. There would be food shortages, low space on housing, and the earth it self would begin to go. With some many people, space is going to be needed. Judging by the way the world is now, not many countries really care about the environment as a whole. When the space in the Amazon forest is needed for homes, 20% of our oxygen is immediately gone. I belive living this old will only benefit the individuals.
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Justin Lenard
3/11/2015 02:30:27 am
After reading the article, living forever would not be something I would want. Living forever would seem awesome because you can get to see what the future brings but why would you want to live forever when you're living for nothing. People live life for a reason but living forever would cause you to not live for the right reasons. Also, the population will over grow and the world we live in will be a complete disaster. My final reason would be, won't you always want to know what happens at the end. That's a question everyone wonders and if you live forever, you will never know. You're given one life for a reason and living life till the end is something that everyone should do.
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Jade Harrison
3/11/2015 02:35:02 am
“We are trying to win the game. And part of it is that it is better to live than to die.” This statement is so false. Personally after reading the article about Google ventures, I still don't want to live forever, or even to be 500. Technology will continue to improve and society will only get harder to fit into. If by 2045 they have discovered something that will allow us to live longer, I would not want it. Some of my family will be passed on by then, and I will not want to continue living without the hope of seeing them again in heaven. We were put on the earth with purpose, but it's said that God will take us, when we are ready. I don't think that we are meant to live for ever or even 500 years. Our brains won't be able to adapt to that way of life. We will run out of resources, and be over populated if everyone lived to 500 years. We are meant to die. It is simply the circle of life.
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Raquel Jackson
3/11/2015 05:04:31 am
After reading this article, you start to realize that there are a lot of reasons you wouldn't want to live to 500 years old or forever at that. People now say they would like to live forever or just a old age in general, in my opinion it would be cool to a certain extent. After a couple years I feel that it would begin getting old and boring. Older people already can barely do some things for themselves, can you imagine even older than eighty or ninety? It would get old very fast in my eyes, you have nothing to do with your life. If you live a full life then you already tried all or most things. Nothing new would really come into your life the way it does now. So in my opinion, this is how I feel about living forever or just a very old age in general.
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Kylie Cutlip
3/11/2015 05:48:25 am
After reading the article, I have come to the conclusion that I would not want to live forever, let alone 500 years. For immortality doesn't mean you stop aging. Unless technology can stop or slow down the aging process, that would be a fate worse than death. When people get to live up to their 80's and 90's, their bodies become weak and feeble. Not to mention that things like dementia and other mental conditions pop up as well. And even if the aging problem was fixed, there would still be a lot of problems you would have to deal with. Housing, food production, and other resources would be used up at an alarming rate. Not to mention in the far future (forgive me for those who don't support evolution) but if enough time passed, humans would start to evolve and look very different from you and I. Not to mention if only you were immortal and everyone around you was not. You would lose everyone you ever loved and no one would want that. Living for only 500 years however seems to be a better option out of the two. Sure the aging thing I mentioned earlier would still present a problem but it beats living forever. I know no one likes to think about but death can't be cheated. We are all going to Die eventually.
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Celina Trucano
3/11/2015 06:07:38 am
After reading this article, I would not choose to live for 500 years. Everyone living for 500 years would eventually result in overpopulation. We would need to cut down even more trees then we already do, to build more homes, causing a major decrease in our oxygen supply, and we would eventually run out of food and fresh water. Also, after a while, you wouldn't want to live anymore. I believe we all live for a purpose and we are all driven by a dream. But once we've completed our goal and are living our dreams, we will realize that the satisfaction is only temporary. We will all die eventually and I believe that when we do it should be at the time God intended us to.
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Trenton Higgins
3/11/2015 06:23:21 am
In my opinion, I think that living to be 500 or longer would be cool and all but then again it would suck if nobody else could live that long with you. If nobody could live that long with you' all your friends would eventually die off and then you would have to keep making new ones. But it also would be cool to see everything in the world and to see how everything changes.
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Esmeralda Celaj
3/11/2015 07:22:27 am
In my opinion, I think we should live up to 500 years old. The type of technology that we have today could make us live up to 500 and by then we would probably have even more advanced technology. We also have the tools and sciences to achieve anything in life so this idea could actually happen. We also have medicine that could help prevent diseases and other problems. Also science and biology is very important without these we might not live up to 500 years old.
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Jason Kudwa
3/11/2015 08:15:27 am
Living up to 500 years or more, in my opinion, would not be a reasonable thing to do. Many of your belongings, and things you cherished way back, more than two centuries ago, will all be gone. If this would ever turn out to be successful, only a certain amount of people would be able to partake in the experiment. Anyone that would be left behind, which is more than likely your whole family, will be gone from your life. Inanimate objects can stay with you for a while, but there is a certain point you don’t want to live that long. When no one else knows you, and you’re all alone, there is really no point on living anymore if in your mind, you’re someone no one cares about. After a certain amount of time, you would have seen everything you wanted to see, varying from individuals.
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Nick Powers
3/26/2015 07:59:42 am
I agree with you and that how living to long could make you lose special things to you such as belongings and things that you cherished.
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Jessica Bozick
3/11/2015 08:40:41 am
I would not like to live to 500 one because i feel like by the time this was invented most things you've wanted to do have been done. Most likely all of your family has already passed and probably some friends as well. Sure it would be cool to live long enough to see what the future holds but i believe we all at some point would just get tired of it all. We would run out of new things to do and try and we would all probably get pretty bored with it all. Also the earth would not be able to hold that many people. At some point there wouldn't be enough resources left. We would run out of living space it would all just be one big mess. Living this long would really just make life lose some of its meaning. I just feel this wouldn't turn out as great as people would think. Just imagine what we would look like at 500. I don't even think we would be able to walk anymore.So yes in some factors it would be cool to live that long but in reality it wouldn't turn out as great as we expect it.
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Jonathan Harris
3/11/2015 09:15:15 am
After reading this article, I feel that I wouldn't want to live pass 100, let alone 500. Your body will naturally deteriorate and what is the point of living four additional lifetimes if all you can do is breath and get billed for expensive medications? Watching how the future would play out would be very interesting but isn't enough to make me watch my loved ones (and future loved ones) perish beside me. Since you only live once, you should experience life during your youth, so your not scrabbling at the end to make up for time wasted. Just like in school, you shouldn't get additional time for something that you could have easily completed at an early date.
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jalen mcgimpsey
3/11/2015 09:53:32 am
i would not want to live until i am 500 yeas of age. I think this is a good thing that can be helpful in this world today but it also isnt benifidhul to most people because most cant wait to grow old have grandchildren and die later on in life so this isnt good for everyone in the world.
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Carter Petty
3/11/2015 10:30:56 am
If I had the choice I would not want to live for 500 years. Surely living that long would have benifets of wisdom and seeing the world evolve but personally that's too long for me. If God wanted us to live for 500 years he would have made it that way. If I had to choose between living 100 years or 500 years of life I would choose 100 years and just live every moment to the fullest.
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Liz offer
3/11/2015 10:34:08 am
After reading this article, I feel that I would not want to live up to 500 because everything would have been invented by then and life would get very boring. Also, sports and activities would not be as well joyed if you played them for that long. There may be a lot of space for people now, but if we lived to 500 we would eventfully run out and the world would go crazy. If we lived to 500, I feel we would get very old and frail to the point where it’s not even worth living anymore. Family and friends would have already passed away and you would have no one. Life wouldn’t be the same without them. I think it would be a great experience, but it wouldn’t be worth it in the end. Everything you had from when you were young would tarnish and you would loose it all. I don’t know anyone who would wan to live alone without any of his or her most cherished items. We would also run out of oxygen, food and natural resources. I feel like I wouldnt even be that happy at 500 and I would be tired of living. Life would get very plain and dull. Nothing would be fun anymore and nothing great would come out of it. In conclusion, I think that it would be a one in a lifetime experience, but it wouldn’t be worth it in the end.
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Zeta barrie
3/12/2015 04:05:26 am
I believe living to 500 would have both pros and cons. I watch movies where people live forever and it seems so delightful because they have someone they love, and I do truly believe you can love someone for forever but it takes work. Having to put so much work Into one person is hard. I don't think its possible to be honest. Imagine doing anything for that long. There's only so many things you can do in life. Only so many jobs. Only so many people you can love. You can meet so many new people but you only have so many feelings to share. Life would get boring. You start to get lonely even when there are people around you. I just feel you would get sad and depressed because your loved ones die before you do. I believe the life we get is enough and you go see God afterwards, and live there outside of the world. That's all you can ever ask for, and you shouldn't complain.
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Nicole Killinger
3/11/2015 10:44:11 am
After reading this article, I don't want to live forever. There would be way too many problems to deal with. One of them is that the population would get way too high. People are already worried about that problem today, but if everyone was still alive at five hundred, it would be way to hard to deal with. For example, there wouldn't be enough houses for people, and another big problem would be food. If there is s growth in population then there would be a shortage in food and prices would go sky high. Then people would go hungry. And also I truly wouldn't want to live that long, I would get bored. And I don't wanna see what the world will be like in five hundred years.
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Taylor Graczyk
3/11/2015 10:47:16 am
I wouldn't want to live past 100. you are still aging and I wouldn't want to look like that for another 400 years. most people at the age of 100 cant walk that good or hear that good. who would want to be like that for a few more hundred years? i would rather just live until 100. whats the point of living that long?
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Kanai Dozier
3/11/2015 11:04:02 am
Personally, I would not want to live forever or even up to 500 years old because it would be completely pointless. Living for an elongated amount of time makes it harder to experience new things while having the thrill to quickly do things you've always wanted before you die. Bucket lists are filled with desires of people who want to be spontaneous, but having longer life does not give people the absolute rush of doing something exhilarating in a short span of time. I also believe that we were all put on this Earth for a reason and it was not to spend your life figuring out how to cheat life, but to truly live, in the amount of time given to you. The Earth will seemingly get smaller and smaller if lives become longer because the population will ultimately increase. As a result of a population increase, it would be harder to get resources and there would not be enough for everyone, even if there were some found. Competition would occur due to lack of resources causing violence and inhumanity to take place, defeating the purpose of truly living a meaningful, purposeful life.
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Patricia Camarata
3/11/2015 11:46:10 am
After i read this article, i have come to think that living forever would not be something i would like because if i did i would see all my kids grow up that would be nice and my grandchildren. But if i did live forever then i would experience so many deaths of people who i have grown close to over my long life. This article was interesting to me and i thought a lot about it and i have come to conclusion that yeah you would be able to see a lot more and do a lot more, but there are some withdraws that i would not like at all.
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Noah Cannon
3/11/2015 12:25:58 pm
Although living to be 500 years old would be very interesting, it would not be easy. One reason living to be that old would be hard is because you would have to keep up with all the new technology, you would loose your family/friends and be alone. Those are the reasons that living to be the age of 500 would be hard to do. but with science and medicine the way it is now it wouldn't be hard to believe that in the near future and possibly even in our lifetime that we will be able to live to be ages never though of before!
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Chris Henckel
3/11/2015 01:19:26 pm
Obviously, most people would want to live forever. I would also enjoy it. However, as selfish as it may be, i wouldnt want others to be able to. If everyone could live forever, the negative side effects would be terrible. The world is already over populated, imagine if people lived forever. There wouldnt be enough food, resources, and space to go around.
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Shayna Suit
3/11/2015 02:00:36 pm
Personally, I would not like to live for 500 years. I think that 100 years or so is long enough to live a fulfilling life. Additionally, with people living longer, and maybe having more children, the population would be too high, possibly eradicating all the earth's resources. Even today, we struggle with the high and rapidly growing population. In this article, they research ways to extend human life, but they do not research the resources needed the maintain the population.
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justin sochko
3/12/2015 01:01:14 am
I personally would not want to love forever, if we didn't already then I think we really weren't supposed to. People shouldn't be able to be immortal because it could alter the world in sever ways. With people living forever, nessecities would run out a rapid rate, things like food, water, even jobs would run out due to overpopulation and crowding. There wouldn't even be sufficent shelter for everyone to inhabit, people would be living poverty, and government assistance would be needed by more and more people every year. They world would soon climb to extreme debts and no way to pay them off. Living forever doesn't sound very appealing, I'd rather live as long as I'm supposed to, and pass once it's the right time.
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Brandon Manardo
3/12/2015 01:04:12 am
After reading this article I would not want to live to the age of 500. Reasons being is that at a certain point you would have done everything you wanted to achieve I life. You would also have to consider how populated the world would be. Also it would get to the point to were you will be to old to live independently, would you really want to live like that for hundreds of years?
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Cody Wallace
3/12/2015 01:59:03 am
I think that living up to 500 years has many downs and up. Some downs include the world running out of water or supplies to keep the world going. You would run out of stuff to do on your life, who knows where technology might end up to, and possibly medical issues. For some people living to the age of 500+ may be very appealing, there are many side effects. The world may become a chaotic disaster as well. As for me I want to live up to what I am supposed to and pass on from there.
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David Goralczyk
3/12/2015 02:11:35 am
I think that it would be horrible to live to be 500 years old. The world would be full of old people we would not reproduce and eventually the world would just die off. Also, it would be depressing to live to be that old. I would at most want to live to be 105 years old. At the absolute most. So over all I like our life range that we are at now.
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Chad onion
3/12/2015 02:16:58 am
In my opinion, i think that humans should be able to live a long life. But for someone living up to 500+ years seems pretty pathetic to me in a way. I dont understand why you would want to go through that many years. Who knows what could happen in the next couple hundred years. You would run out of things to do unless you were wealthy, then you would be able to many things. I think 100 is a good enough age to die at.
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Gjergj Markaj
3/12/2015 02:23:27 am
I believe living for 500 years would make you pretty depressed. Living up to 500, you would be able to see all the new technologies and other accomplishments. As well as the treatment or medicine for it would probably be very expensive. So if you are a luck person to have those types of funds available alot of other people around you without those sufficient funds would die causing you to be even more depressed.
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kyle wychuyse
3/12/2015 09:21:13 am
Before I read this article I thought it would be cool to live for a long time,like 500 years or so. However after thinking about more I do not think it would be as good as I thought. If you live fore ever your life would be so stress full. You Would See People Die and die all over agian. There would not be any goodness in that. Life is good enough if you live to 70 to 80 or so to years old. That would be the most appropriate age to love and die. Also if you lived forever you just might end up going crazy in the end.
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Brooklynn Schmanski
3/12/2015 10:07:12 am
I have mixed feelings about this topic. Many things make me feel like I want to live forever, but then there are also many other things that make me wish I won't. Seeing the new technology and cures for diseases that people will eventually invent would be awesome. If the human population continues to destroy our world and make it a mean and nasty place, I would not want to live to see that. Making more memories and buliding more relationships with people would make me beyond happy. When I think of how many more people there would be, I realize that we wouldn't have enough natural resources available to support that huge population. Unless, someone comes up with a way to renew our oil and water sources. I would hate to see any more poverty and hunger than there already is. Also, living 500+ years would cause every person to live through more wars and political troubles. Living 70-90 years gives one the ability to experience many wonderful and great things. When one dies they leave everything and everyone they love behind; with having the ability to extend a lifetime one doesn't have to leave behind anything. Overall, I don't really know what I would pick because they both have there pros and cons.
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Kim shults
3/12/2015 01:21:40 pm
I wouldn't want to live forever. The earth wouldn't be able to support all the people and then there wouldn't be enought food and fresh water for everyone. You would also have a ton of stress and the older you got the more likely you would get sick.
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Nick Powers
3/26/2015 07:56:52 am
I think that living forever would not be a good thing at all.. Seeing your loved ones die and going through alot of stress would sooner or later make you not want to live for more than a couple hundred years, but I think the idea of living a couple hundred years would be pretty sweat. I guess it would just depend on the way you live your life and if your family members can also live for 500 years.
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