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What Happens When the Average Lifespan is 150 Years?

Posted by samzenpus on from the first-century-is-the-best dept.

First time accepted submitter Macgrrl writes "It was reported today in The Age newspaper that scientists believe they will have a drug within the next 5-10 years that will extend the average human lifespan to 150 years. Given the retirement age is 65, that would give you an extra 85 years, meaning you would probably have to extend the average working life to 100 or 120 years to prevent the economy becoming totally unbalanced and pensions running out. That assumes that the life extension is all 'good years', and not a prolonged period of dementia and physical decline. Would you want to live to 150? What do you see as being the most likely issues and what do you think you would do with all the extra years?"

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  1. Re:Easy by Lumpy · · Score: 0, Troll

    " food and other resources will become scarce,"

    why? are you assuming that the bulk of the population will still be retarded and have kids like rabbits? Honestly, when are we going to get pas the stupidity of religion and embrace the fact that you can have sex without making babies?

    Birth Control people, it's not a new invention..

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  2. Occupy All the Time by sycodon · · Score: 0, Troll

    The people who think like those at Occupy Whatever would be protesting that the old folks aren't dying fast enough and that they are entitled to the jobs and property of anyone over 80.

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    1. Re:Occupy All the Time by LifesABeach · · Score: 1, Troll

      I believe the "Angry White People Crowd" are at the "tea party" meeting down the street. Those people seem obsessed with a value system that seems to contradict itself after every sentence. But one thing is definite with the tea party, and that is death to everyone. I have seen to much death to agree with the tea party. And the logistics of living to be over 100, and maintain our population growth, is to go to a space faring culture.

    2. Re:Occupy All the Time by sycodon · · Score: 0, Troll

      It's not "Angry White People Crowd".

      It's the "Paying the Freight" crowd.

      They are the ones that go to work every day and pay the taxes that allow these Occupy WTFE people to piss and crap on public property and then pretend to claim so higher moral ground.

      The Occupy crowd is asking to go to an economic system that has been shown empirically (by about 100 million deaths) to not work.

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  3. Occupy Whatever by sycodon · · Score: 1, Troll

    And he's probably at some Occupy love in.

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