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  • Someguy · 1 year ago
    To be immortal would be really cool, assuming you didn't get bored of life eventually. However, lets get one thing straight: death is a GOOD thing. Maybe it's hard to appreciate while you're lying in bed with terminal cancer, but death is a necessary part of life. If you take out death, you get extreme overpopulation, infinitely more polution, and the cheating of the already cheated natural selection of humans. There are many other reasons but this is just food for thought.
  • MikeT · 1 year ago
    I have two questions:

    Who will gets th technology that extends life indefinitely?

    Who will control the technology?
  • Evan Ackerman · 1 year ago
    Whoever invents it, probably... And we all know how compassionate biotech companies are (!).
  • Someguy is stupid · 1 year ago
    Someguy is a moron, with extended life comes respect for life in higher terms, so you not NEED to keep mating for overpopulation, you see your results through out the years of your footprint on life, see, your thinking in a limited I gonna die in 80 years way, when you live for 100 of years, you do not over populate, Trees live for 100's of years and we sure do NOT have a overpopulation problem with those, trust me, there WAY to many morons to allow you to overpopulate death is not a good thing in any idealistic way you make it
  • Ben Abba · 1 year ago
    I just found your blog post and found it quite interesting.

    If you are serious about this subject, then you will be quite interested in my reasearch and findings on this very topic.

    I have summarized what I have found on my main blog:
    http://www.Ben-Abba.com

    Check out the post “Summary of the Facts” whne you get a chance and then my followup book “Secrets of an Immortal - An Eyewitness Account of 2,800 Years of History”.

    Blessings!
  • SmiteTheFail · 9 months ago
    Computers are going to disappear 2010 eh?....wow we must be advancing pretty quick. Actually sounds like you need to check your math. Also I didn't get my retinal implant device in the mail yet, I've stopped reading for years waiting for this thing and its almost out!* (note the sarcasm)