Micah Tillman

I, personally, like the idea.

More time to figure out how to do life right.

Posted in Science

on 20 Nov 2008 at 4:46 pm1Jeff Stallard

Yeah, but what about those people who don’t have any desire who live, who just drift through life like it’s a burden instead of an opportunity? Wouldn’t extended life be torture for them?

Besides, will an extra 50 years answer more questions than it creates? Although…I suppose discovering new questions can be kind of an answer.
on 21 Nov 2008 at 11:17 am2joanna

Well, it seems to me that if living longer would be torture then the tortured souls simply wouldn’t get the telomerase boost.

I’d be OK with an extended life (depending on the circs. Could my youthful self be extended or would it be my middle-aged, rapidly decaying self? Guess it would depend on when I got the boost…), but the whole increased risk of cancer thing would probably deter me from trying this particular method til they worked out the kinks.

Do You Want Immortal Cells?