Do you wish humans lived longer?

Question

The average life expectancy changes throughout time and continents, would you like it if we lived for 200 years

Answer 1

Yes I do so wished, but our days are sorted by our ways of acting, and the foods that we eat from one day to the next.

Answer 2

I think the only people who would answer yes are those who haven't lived a decent part of their life already, or actually have to work for a living.

Imagine this, the current age for retiring is what, 65, so to live to 200 the retirement age would be upped to....hmmm would 160 sound about right?  Maybe more?

Now then, what can you honestly imagine someone over the age of 100 could possibly do to aid the economy of the world?

Now for instance if you had said, live to 200, don't age past your 30's.  Then yeah that would be great fun...oh well you know, until famine, strife and war took us all out.  So if we ignore all these things then its a great idea.  When can i start?

Answer 3

Being an unwanted child ,  I just wish I had never been born. There are too many people on he planet as it is, and we all have to find other ways of controlling the earths population.

Answer 4

As long as the aging process is slowed down, yes... I am curious of what the Earth will look like in two hundred years.

Answer 5

for sure! that would be amazing but only if the aging process took a longer time!!

Answer 6

Recent research showed that aging may have a large part to do with the environment stem cells (cell reserve without a specialization, that can take on any type of cell needed) are grown in. A recent experiment that connected the blood of a young rat to an old rat, caused the old rat to become "young".

So before too long, it will possibly be possible to live for ages. Literally.

Answer 7

yeah that would be so exiting

Answer 8

Not until we get the population under control.

Answer 9

That is an interesting question.  I have always had the goal of living to be over 100 certainly.  When I was a kid, I was fascinated with how societies and cultures change and develop with time.  I think I was starting to notice at that time that this change, due to technologies, was accelerating.  I wanted to be able to watch the changes.  Also, from hearing about other family members living so long in my family history I felt that my goal was at least somewhat attainable.

I still feel that way today now that I am in my thirties.  However, I am beginning to understand why some elderly people have a hard time handling it.  Accepting change is not something that comes naturally to all people.  Some elderly people have actually said that they have seen all that they think they can handle.  Their very full lifetimes have been enough.  This isn't the case for all, I'm sure.

So, I haven't really decided if that seems as interesting to live 200 years.  I guess it would depend on how I felt about it after 100 years.  It would also depend on the aging process.  I would not want to live to be 120, let alone 200, if I had to be encumbered by machines or bedridden.

I think further generation are taught to handle the changes better, being born at a point of excellerated change.  They would probably be more comfortable with this aspect of living that long.

Answer 10

I actually do not wish to live for that long.With old age comes health problems and many other unpleasant things. However, if we could be young and healthy enough to live longer, than it would be nice.

Answer 11

I rather reach 100 in sparkling good health and drop dead looking pretty, than spend 30 years as a wreck in care home and live to 200.

Depends. If you didin't get old and infirm, I'd cheerfully take up space for a thousand years.

Answer 12

No bacuse if we had soo many people in the wrould it will be tooo hard