Can We Live Forever?

[@Storebrand_]

Age is just a disease we haven't cured. I want to live forever. Not because I fear death, but because I want to see the world evolve. I want to see my great great great grandchildren. I want to experience future technology. I want to travel to other planets. I want to choose when I die.

[@marko.smilja]

So much stuff to learn and see... So little time...

[@jasonupton2765]

Imagine if everyone lived forever, each person would have 1 square meter to themselves. Although i wouldn't mind seeing 300.

[@TheHorreK2]

i still hope that i will be able to see the first landing on another planet, i really really hope

[@mag0024]

Don´t you care about overpopulation? After all we are still limited to Earth and probably will be for a long time. There are already to much people on this planet...

[@reiokimura6519]

In fact we can get more knowledge with extended lifespan and use it to create better technology..

[@aliengrey6992]

I am 9467 years old and still going strong.

[@lightsidemaster]

IT'S OVER 9000!!!!! That's why you chose that number right? lol

[@Peng_Pong]

Im a penguin

[@jasonborrn6263]

not fair you have had way more time to do science stuff and stay away from our planet or i will cough on you, try fighting the common cold.

[@Anonymos185]

AYYY LMAO

[@damiangalaxy4838]

***** salve mon uchuujin suhubi!

[@alexsworld1999]

I don't care about anybody else. I want to see everything till the universe blows up. I want to see the end of everything. I don't care how sad I become, who I loose, how emotionally unstable or insane I become. It is worth it to me. I'm not sure why, I think it's just my nature.

[@jb280557]

Omg!!!! So fucking true!!!!!!!😱😝😝😝😝

[@person-wk2uf]

Maybe even after the end of the universe dot dot dot.

[@michaelmeenan2732]

I just find it so scary (I'm 13 so I'm still quite young) but I think life is just a total waste sometimes.like from 10 years old to 13 felt very fast for me so 13 to 16 will feel very fast to me aswell, life is a bitch,you are born,you achieve what you want to achieve,and then you are dead,everything you achieved is then nothing, I do believe in a real after life but I really can't say how I think it works. I find it sad some day that I'm gonna have to deal with my parents dying,and I would want my kids to be good people and that cycle continuing, I just want to make an impact on the world somehow and that people won't be sad after I die,I know this was a confusing comment but anyone feel free to reply :)

[@alexsworld1999]

***** I totally understand where you are coming from. When I was about your age, I had a similar phase. I'm actually 16 now. I've seen and done some things that would make you turn green. I even was suicidal at a certain point in my life for reasons that would be too long to explain. I've been really messed up. I became desensitized to death completely now. Honestly, I'd love to live forever but it isn't worth arguing about. Life is too short my friend. My parents always told me to enjoy life now while it lasts because you don't know what is on the other side. So, I'm enjoying it the best I can. I've turned my self around completely. I used to be a antisocial, suicidal, insecure child. Now, I'm a party animal who isn't afraid anymore of anything. Including death. Now, I don't suggest going crazy but make yourself happy while pleasing others. That way, almost everyone that wants to have a good time, will have a good time. Stay in contact if you want. Hope I gave you some sort of relief.

[@michaelmeenan2732]

Thanks,I'm not really that afraid of death anymore,because life is pretty long when you think about it,and i wont have to worry about death for a long time, One thing that scares me(This is very morbid now so be prepared) is the fact that one day i won't have my parents,my dad smokes and he is 53,although my mom is healthy and is 49,but im doing lots more things with them,im going on a trip with my dad soon,and ive been watching movies with my mom,im going to appreciate and love them while i have them! :)

[@insu_na]

I see no reason NOT to extend a life to 1000 years or more. If you get tired of living after a century or two, you can still end it. Extending life artificially only gives you more choice, which is always good in my opinion.

[@EastyyBlogspot]

i am dying to find the answer to this question

[@sambloomingdale7127]

^

[@AstraAnima]

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[@Toji101]

Usually humans age and die because of the mitochondria dna dysfunction/mutation.

[@lightindarkness9684]

What if I told you hundreds of thousands of people have died so that you could have that answer and its a true story. hundreds of men died and were murdered just because they seen a guy come back to life after publicly being executed. The problem was that he wasn't just some guy he made it know that he was the Son of God himself and he taught men what they needed to do to live forever. Please I ask all of us to consider this, why would so many people want to die for something they knew was a lie.

[@MrRomeyo93]

***** Vladimir Putin confirmed

[@sousaphonist]

"Would you want to live for 1000 years?" If I'm guaranteed mental clarity and wouldn't have to deal with a progressively emaciated physical form for all those years...sure! Just think; I could try my had at not just one but SEVERAL jobs that I think'd be interesting to do, have the time to become fluent in several languages, travel the world, hell yes!

[@GentleScreams]

So many people wanna die, what is this. HELL YEA I WANNA LIVE FOREVER. Don't even care if I'm alone and go insane. I'll figure something out. Screw dying, I wasn't born to do that, oh wait.

[@alexsworld1999]

exactly

[@matthewvang71]

To answer that question, Heck yea I wanna live an extra 1000 years.. I love where technology is going and it sucks how im not gonna be able to see us like star wars or something like that lol..

[@tylerolsen1643]

Would I want too live forever? if its with my family yes. but as time goes on no. In 1000 years I would forget theses moments and forget my loved ones who would of passed away.

[@TheTUDOR91]

But if you die, your knowledge of their existence would be erased, along with everything else you know (obviously).

[@tylerolsen1643]

I would rather die knowing them and having my memories of them then dieing alone not knowing them

[@tylerolsen1643]

I know that I mean the last seconds beaofre death that clarity of the ones you love not being able too remeber them

[@Johncornwell103]

***** Original

[@kristinaplays2924]

john cornwell flaming is just not smart enough to think of a better retort than a lame insult. It means you won the argument. Rejoice.

[@ej_tech]

Reminds me of Adam Savage's "Can You Live Forever" documentary

[@lianinerte]

well my grand parents are 94 and 92 respectively... healty natural food, and home made meals, oatmeals, honny, cereals, meat, etc... and they always stay active... my grandad is in charge of the garden and its a preatty big one. ( 2 normal american household's) he has 3 plants of papaya, 3 banana trees, a lemon, 2 oranges. and other 50+ species of roses and other flowers. my grandma still is on the selling business with that natural sunshine herval products and she is in charge of the cleaning and cooking on the house. not because she has to ... but because she will kick your ass if you try to take that away from her.

[@GengoNoTabi]

Thank you. I always get frustrated when I hear people say they can't know what to do with diet, because science is always changing. You stated it clearly. The media and people trying to sell books make it seem like the science isn't steady. We have understood for a very long time that fat and cholesterol are important parts of your diet for one example. If you ignore the hyperbole from sensationalist sources and follow good credible sources of information you would see that while understanding continues to grow richer, the comprehension of good dietary practice has been pretty solid for the lat several decades.

[@tonyreno3168]

"But when will it be possible to live forever?" Sometime between 2040 and 2060. Sometime during those 2 decades regenerative medicine will finally have reached a point that, instead of getting physically weaker, more frail, more susceptible to disease with each passing year, people will be able to get physically more robust and healthy, less susceptible to disease with each passing year. At that point people who opt to pursue it will be the first to have a shot at living forever, as each healthier year will be followed by a year in which technology has advanced still further and even greater health advantages have become possible. "And would you want to?" Yes.

[@himynameis2739]

Cool story bro. Lol.

[@tonyreno3168]

Think if it like flying. Flying sounded far fetched until someone barely did it, the Wright brothers in 1903. Once someone barely did it, it got better and better. We think it is nearly impossible, but it's actually not that hard, conceptually. We just haven't been working at that level of complexity. If you watch videos on deep learning machines you'll realize that our medical R&D efforts will be computer driven within 5 years from now, and from that point forward the pace of medical advance will be extremely rapid. Now first keep in mind that you don't have that many kind of cells, only 30,000 genes but only about 200 types of cells. Now imagine a tiny machine that can go through and repurpose each cell it runs into into a perfect version of one of the 200 types, replacing each cell with an exact duplicate but without any maladies they may have built up over the years. This is way beyond anything we can do today, but should be easily doable by 2060, hence the far end date.

[@himynameis2739]

Tony Reno The reason I said cool story bro is because every single thing you state in both comments now, is pure speculation, imagination and assumption. You have presented no evidence to back up any claim of capability or time frame. Without any form of evidence then what you are saying is just like I said, a story.

[@AstonishedByTheLackOfCake]

How to keep you alive until 2040-2060 so you CAN live forever? Cryogenics!

[@tonyreno3168]

I'm in great health. Barring the unforeseen, I'll still be around then. But just in case, I did sign up for cryonics over 30 years ago, even bought a lifetime membership.

[@Ramt33n]

living 50 years a proper life with happiness, would be all I wish for :)

[@suzieboo3984]

It's all in the BIBLE read it it's amazing how true it is even though it was written more than 2,000 years ago it's the most accurate book ever!

[@mountaindank7817]

It is not at all the most accurate book ever moron, ffs the old testament thought the earth was flat and that the sun revolved around the earth

[@JMJF55]

Mountain Dank wow. Tell me what verse

[@mountaindank7817]

Cmiccaf biblebabble.curbjaw.com/errors.htm

[@ericcartmann]

Mountain Dank correction the bible thought the earth was a crescent like a snow globe. And apparently the sun came after plants and light because logic.

[@110gotrek]

oh the irony :p

[@Singularity2060]

the most important point on living forever is to have a plan, to structure your life in cycles that keep it fun and remove the feeling of boringness

[@WCephei77HD]

I would absolutely want to!!

[@Crashandburn999]

I believe that's the case for everyone who isn't suicidal or depressed. Most people who say that they would not want to live for 1000 years, are just lying because it's the social norm to not want to live for a very long time.

[@MrVavo007]

***** I'm not suicidal or depressed, and I wouldn't want to live for 1000 years. What would you do with all of that time? Most people would just become bored and lose the purpose of life. I prefer to have an amazing 80 year life span than a boring 1000 year life span. I thought the social norm was to live longer. lol

[@MrVavo007]

***** and to be honest, I think people who say they want to live for 1000 years are terrified of death.

[@WCephei77HD]

***** Absolutely right! :)

[@WCephei77HD]

Ozzy Long, medium or short, life is what you make of it, I would make it really fun and would study heaps of different things, would be setting up so many different businesses, the possibilities are endless.

[@mr.steveblazer7478]

Yes I would want to live longer of not forever , see the world evolve , use the skills I developed over time for a longer period of time , meet all kinds of people and have many accomplishments .

[@annefrank1301]

Oldest person ever? 122 years old? Her secret? Wine and chocalate.

[@izthemovie]

I don't ever want to die. I don't ever want to stop thinking, feeling, caring, knowing, experiencing, tasting, smelling, etc. I know everyday I'm getting older, I'm only 27, but I hate knowing that each day is a day I'll never get back. My body is literally dying right now. All of our bodies are. As soon as we are born, we start to die. I want to live forever. I never want to cease to exist. I just hope that in my lifetime, it may be possible. Or at the very least, to at least live to see my 300th birthday. And still feel healthy.

[@glyrad21]

If I could live a thousand years, I'd probably be like Dr Who!

[@hackman669]

longer live span = better tech and more informed decisions.

[@malaquiasalfaro81]

People would care about the earth now especially if they know they'll see the effects in the long run. Often times they don't care because it doesn't affect them directly in their time but this can change that.

[@usmarines376]

Even if I lived 1000 years fallout 4 still would not be released.

[@13ullseye]

The struggle is real :(

[@TheGameO47]

It released & got old.

[@TheDestroyer73]

can i just say you have been the best host so far since i have subbed to Dnews? i like how you give examples to things that you are explaining to thanks for that :D

[@cheyennevv8852]

I don't want to live forever..

[@supercakefish]

I'll happily take any years you don't want. As long as I'm in good health, the more the merrier I say!

[@pseudolemon8272]

i want to live forever. Be the only thinking thing, be the only thing to see what it is like to stay blank in the universe, with billions of years to think and develop myself into an all knowing creature, or simply wave around until i land in a planet and create life myself and popularize and entire planet and be their god. living forever is the most fantastic no limits thing possible. I'd give anything to have it.

[@pseudolemon8272]

***** i technically am anyways. I'm giving my life to immortality. If you're saying that in order to get immortality i would have to give my life, that would be a paradox. I would be immortal so i wouldn't die, but if i gave my life i would be dead. Only possible way out of this is becoming a soul without a corpse and if so, no thanks x)

[@skylagale6960]

Juan David Mejia Mena i think you be reborn and dont remember who you were

[@sbellaharris]

Not forever, just a million years.

[@supercakefish]

As long as I remain in reasonably good health, yes, I would want to live forever. It's not like you could ever get bored - the universe is infinitely huge.

[@DerekKildall]

I would not like that, if I loved for a longer lifespan than all of my friends. Who would I talk to? Would my life even be worth living if there was no one there to live it with?

[@Pebkio_Nomare]

Living forever would be a nightmare. The implications on social progress would be disastrous. Imagine if someone like Strom Thurmond could live for 1000 years. Or *any* politician. We generally vote for the same person over and over and over. So we'd be getting the same policies over and over and over for 900 years. Even worse, the older generations with older beliefs and practices get to influence the growth and education of upcoming generations. I mean, we still have entire religions who argue against using birth control. What would that do to our ecosystems if people who live 1000 years have babies regularly... and then those people live 1000 years having babies regularly even while their parents are still having babies regularly? Just thinking about all the implications is causing my skin to crawl.

[@superflymonkey100]

I personally think they should make people unable to have kids once they have 3. No one needs or should have more than 3 kids. Also, new generations would fight the older generations and probably start a civil war within countries since times change and old people still live in 1900's. So it would get ugly, but I think it would be cool. It's not like this world isn't already full of war and power hungry politicians.

[@Pebkio_Nomare]

superflymonkey100 Why would the younger generation do such a thing? The younger generation only differs from the older slightly... it's just that small changes over several reiterations causes changes in beliefs and processes. But if it's the oldest generation informing even the newer, then change will take a lot longer. Centuries instead of decades... and millennia instead of centuries. Scientific progress will still be based on empirical evidence and still change as it does today... but science isn't enough to keep things like human rights and the system of government from growing, in all likelihood, corrupted by personal interest (far more than it even is now when we only live 70-100 years). In short, long life spans will just make things worse.

[@thenight1732]

That is why you put a cap on how long they can serve for like the president. The same should be applied to congress. I'm not sure why president goes up for reelection every four years but senate is every six. John Murtha served in Pennsylvania for 36 years. The problem is the citizens really don't give a damn about any election but the presidency. People don't go out and vote against these guys so they just win indefinitely and you allow the corruption to continue. I'm sorry, but after 36 years you have your special interests and you are no longer working for the people.

[@Xpwnxage]

That's why we resort to fascism and kill anyone with an IQ under 115. Yay! Fascism and Genocide! My favorite!

[@TheDestroyer73]

you forget the part where by then people would have started to travel to other planets so even if they did have kids they would be traveling :P

[@swordofsteel]

I have survived everything that life has thrown at me thus far. If that patter continues, I should live forever.

[@supercakefish]

Invent a time machine. Problem solved.

[@TommyMG96]

Your body will still age

[@supercakefish]

Sanyo [ABANDONED] ah, but my point is you could travel to the future where they have already cracked the secret to immortality.

[@20sam00]

Cakefish But if you bring the secret of immortality back then the people of the future will never bother to invent it because it already exists, thus you cannot take it from the future because they never invented it due to you taking it.... its a paradox.

[@joshhesketh8962]

Cakefish Get this try this if you never age then you can never die from old age and your skeleton will not be able to join the skeleton war but instead be a dirty peasant as he would have been crippled from being hit by a car, being shot ect

[@supercakefish]

Sam Bridge if the time machine could only travel forward in time then no paradox could be created. Problem solved.

[@erocicTheGreat]

Yes, I would want to live 1,000 years. Also, nice glasses!

[@harborwolf22]

I love people in these comments that REALLY think they have 'THE Answer'... Good luck with that, let me know how it turns out.

[@Mica_T]

To live a immortal life? No To live a life where I die at 70-100+? No To choose my time of death? Yes To put it simple, many of us want to live as long as our will to continue. Sadly, we do not have such a option.

[@BmW13294]

This is all amazing and awesome, and for the ppl who want it there's nothing better. For me though, I don't even want to hit 70. I want everyone to remember how much of a fun life I had. Not well grandpa had an amazing life up until the point he got sick and everybody had to take care of him until he died. I don't need to put anybody through that. No if you could live that long and reduce the actual aging process itself then I guess I'd be all for it who doesn't want to live forever and be 20 or 30 years old the whole time.

[@djgamer5546]

Am I the only one having problems whenever an Allstate commercial plays before a DNews video? The commercial plays and the video stops, when I try to start it again a new Allstate ad plays instead.

[@peter320vn]

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[@RemizZ]

Yeah yeah yeah. Eat healthy, exercise regularly, dont smoke, don't drink... This is all I hear every day. The goal we all seem to set for ourselves today is to live as long as possible, but what good is it to be 90 years old, when you spent all of those 90 years not enjoying yourself. I'd rather live a sweet short life than deny myself the pleasures around me, just to get the _chance_ to live long.

[@DameiusLameocrates]

I wouldnt want to live forever, but living longer, could be good. 1000 years would be a long time to experience so much.

[@KalisaFox]

We just need to make it to the point where life expectancy is increasing as fast as we age, and as for the people talking about overpopulation, between space, and other advances in technology to help the earth support more, I highly doubt we would have a problem in that area, the biggest issue would most likely be the social impact of it all.

[@MusicThrower]

I plan to live forever.. So far, so good.

[@rhoskii3308]

a problem with living forever, memory. Just like a computer we will run out of space in our brain to store all our memories unless we find a way to expand the brains capacity or start deleting irrelevant memories we would eventually run out.

[@rinsewind]

living forever, very questionably and controvert but for a thousand years you can sign me up.

[@LilChuunosuke]

I see living forever as a curse, not a blessing. You struggle to live longer, everyone around you dies, and you're stuck watching the world around you change where you are left behind, not understanding. You watch your children die, your grandchildren die, your friends, family, and neighbors... Why do you want to struggle and watch the world change? Life will lose meaning. There is a line I really like from a song about a world where everyone is immortal, but anyone who eats the fruit from a certain tree will die: "Even if we die tomorrow, we can easily treasure the 'now'." Life no longer becomes a lovable gift when you always know there will be a tomorrow for you to do things. The idea of doing something now while you are young and alive won't matter.

[@YeHnJaCk]

but wouldnt the Earth be OVERpopulated and then we cant feed em all and then we will have the battle for survival.... better keep refreshing the population :s

[@vcr4497]

That's why we would have the purge...

[@ChocolateMilkyBoi]

Space is mind bogglingly huge, a population crisis would only spurr the growth of space exploration and colonization, a good thing in my opinion

[@ElementZephyr]

So? The universe can support an almost infinite amount of people. Why are you assuming humans will live on Earth for the rest of our species' days? The sun will destroy the Earth in five billion years ...

[@Dexyu]

We need to modify how much food we need.

[@yourusernamehere]

It's not like there are trillions of planets out there...

[@HunMin004]

I would be honoured to live a short fulfilling life rather, than a long unfruitful one. Many of the people others look up to have lived a life such as this. It's not how long you live, but what you do with the time you have.

[@scotthard3798]

I think it is way more important to improve ones lifequality. So quality over quantity.

[@raybribreezy]

How will the limited amount of resources that have at this point in time ever allow for the immortality of the living + the future living beings?

[@icelandknight]

I am ready... ... to live forever. ("thank you", to anyone who can make it happen)

[@IAmNumber4000]

I'm not scared of death, I'm scared of aging. I don't know how to deal with the fact that one day I'll be past the point in my life where I'm able to participate in sports or any intense physical activities.

[@MrDjoppio]

How about LDeprenyl or Oxaloacetate, both can increase life span by aprox 30% and are (as far as science can tell) risk-free drugs. Any one had heard something about these?

[@crackteon3978]

Living forever without aging would eventually become a curse. Every time you made a friend, they would eventually die, you watching them wither away while they try to preserve a spot in your brain, that will probably one day be forgotten. After all, your first life is the best one. Your original life is always the best because that's your one go, your one game that you can never save, restart, or pause. Eventually you'd just be writing down friend number twenty hundred and girl/boyfriend number five hundred. You'd experience the death of your close friends and family so often you'd become numb to it, eventually just not even caring when they pass on as number 4700. Living forever is something that should only stay in the minds of the emotionless, who don't care for relationships, and can get through the repetition of deaths over and over and come out fine. That must've been the longest youtube comment I've ever written right there. Probably made a mistake somewhere. Oh well.

[@Cambesa]

I would like to live up to a thousand years, seeing how earth develops etc. And when I ever get tired of life I could always decide to die in other ways

[@KnightRaymund]

Of course I'd love to live 1000 years. You have 1 life, I'd like it to last as long as possible.

[@zacheffertz142]

I would live 200-400 years if i was given the option just to see the world change in that time. Btw Julia i love the glasses i have a pair of my own in black.

[@soulofangel1990]

Yes you can, by doing something good to world, innovate, create new ideas that may change the world to a better place so people can remember you even if you died 1000s years ago, that's kinda living longer...

[@adamsgary56]

Restricting caloric intake causes your body to eat itself. Which cells do you thing the body gets first? The weak and damaged. Thus explaining the longer life span. People don't need nearly as much food to be healthy as they think. Its what you eat not how much.

[@SnifferRiffle]

The only way to keep living is to completely understand & master how our brains work along side cloning copies of our selves. Then Growing those copies till they mature to what age you want to start living from again, and transfer your mind to the clone. Now there you go the secret to virtual immortality

[@LemonsRage]

I think that to live up to 1000 years would be very interesting. At the first it would be hard to see lovedones age and die but with time you would accept it and it wouldn't be so hard anymore.

[@badgod3358]

should i buy a iphone 6 from this seller frostyseal or should i buy it from another seller. And btw it's I'm talking about eBay. Should I get its 749 And It looks new. Also if anyone knows how much a iPhone 6 with 64gb is can u tell me.

[@Giga_Pudding]

I'd rather live my natural lifespan and treat every day as gift. Then again, 10-30 years extra wouldn't hurt and I'd at least be able to spend that time with family.

[@archiecook55]

I would rather live a short and satisfying life than live a long life filled with suffering and/or boredom.

[@navtium]

What about nanorobots that would repair cells on a molecular level? I know that's probably a couple of hundred years off, but it seems like it could potentially work.

[@SebastianLundh1988]

Bill andrews has some interesting things to say about telomeres and aging.

[@dierderikd3986]

I like your glasses!

[@tobybuckle743]

i fear death in every way i want to live for ever and if the only way to do it is to download my consciousness in to a computer to stop me from dying from cellular degeneration i would do it in a heartbeat

[@giseladoroteo6652]

I am sacred and I can not stop thinking about it.😢

[@FoxxyEntertainment]

If it is possible then it would be great! It's like living another century

[@marko.rankovic]

Well living forever is difficult to say because you don't know if at some point you will lose the will to live

[@MyLittleMagneton]

You shouldn't ask yourself if you want to live forever, you should ask yourself if you want to die.

[@undeadmuffin]

Yes. I'd love it, I want to see where we as a species go.

[@Harjawaldar]

the question is: where do I sign up?

[@djunior874]

Counter-arguments against overpopulation: 1. Space colonisation 2. Mind uploading 3. Programmes to have fewer children 4. Post-scarcity (think molecular assemblers) + 100% recycling using renewable energy

[@synni3379]

I wanna live a thousand years. Imagine how smart we could become...

[@arpitnot4u]

everyone will choose death but after living life to his full extent. People will go for 1000 years of life span and at a certain point in time they will wish for death - this stage of wishing for death comes in most of our life's.

[@ManicMindTrick]

Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.

[@SparkSkel]

Yes I would want to.

[@saraharchibald6623]

Thanks im 10 and im told im going to die when im 60. Because you said someone 5 years younger will live until 70 - 80

[@COLLAXHD]

That backround music.. Frozen Let It Go?

[@tbone007]

I was actually a science channel episode with one of the guys from MythBusters went through a lot of the stuff and one of them is body part cloning but the big thing is can we live forever no for one reason it's that even if our body can live forever Armind or our brain cannot it actually shrinks overtime

[@hexaciousjinx6923]

It's not living for ever....It's ETERNAL youth that is what a person seeks..Like me :3

[@DanielBucknor]

Loving the glasses Julia

[@RodneyWilder]

I wouldn't want to live 1000 years, life would get quite boring, not to mention the exponential over-population problem if this became the norm , but I think have a reset to bring body back to my 20s or even 30s would be worthwhile a cople of times So many things I'ld like to throw myself into, so little time to do it in..

[@ChrisRobertsThe]

1000? I could see doing that. Forever? Would have to try it and see. Such a big universe out there, there's so much to learn. But as you say, overpopulation would quickly become an even bigger problem.

[@draculakickyourass]

The overpopulation is not the a problem ,simply because there would not be such a thing,and i'll explain the reason: in the developing conturies the reason they have many kids have a selfish reason:,,i have many kids to be sure i'll be taken care when i'll be old'', meantime in Europe for example,where the people are certain they will be take care of by the social system,they don't have many children,the great majority of the couples have only one,rarely 2,or some haven't at all or they never even get married. I'm from Romania and here it seems the population is decreasing because of the low rate of natality,it is estimated that if this rate will continue,in about 400 years the romanian population would be reduced to couple of thousands persons. in the last 30 years the population decreased fro 23 milions in 1988 to 18 milions in 2013 in this contury.

[@andrewgilbertson6534]

I saw that episode of curiosity with Adam from mythbusters. From what I saw there, I don't want to live forever.

[@123A34]

also, is it possible to replace the tips at the end of dna?

[@astroman0500]

I've always dreamed with the power of extreme healing of wolverine, so that I can live maybe up to my 2 to 3 hundred years looking like I'm no more that 35(?), and then... as my healing factor deminishes with my age I would age normally and that would be it! :) 350 (maybe 375?) years of life would be awesome!

[@DrWasayKhan]

Yes.

[@21EC]

wow if anyone could leave to a thousand years he/she could make it to a far more superior and advanced era of technology which would eventually allow them to extend their life even longer, much longer than 1000 years...

[@BADblake00]

I like how the time is 3:14 and that goes on "forever"

[@ThemanlyTor]

I'll take a 1000 years thank you

[@Koolboy996]

What's the tip of the shoelace called? (Phineas and Ferb reference)

[@mikewasowski6964]

Aglet?

[@Koolboy996]

@@mikewasowski6964 this was 5 whole years ago man, I've grown since then. I'm a man now, studying for a degree in Physics. How are you doing?

[@erok135]

I'm pretty sure a scishow talked about those worms same studyand they were saying they also stayed younger as well. Of course you would be frail longer too, because the whole life was extended

[@ClubBangerTV]

I think I'm pretty satisfied with the average lifespan. I can't imagine living forever in such a cruel, classified world. Let alone 100 years. Majority of elders spend their time reminiscing on the old days. I can't imagine doing that for 1,000 years. That would be depressing.

[@GKMcWhite]

With so much time on your hand you just need endurance to change what you don't like. :P

[@AvangionQ]

In the future, with advancements in age-related medicines and geriatrics, human lifespans should extend to 130 years as an upper limit, with more than half of that time being youthful years. Agelessness to the point of living forever, that's not going to happen for us ~ but living for much much longer, that will, and with such changes, society will have to adapt to new and readily foreseeable pressures.

[@nolongeractive2536]

DAFUQ! The commercial just keeps going on loop.

[@mexander8345]

yes.

[@DragonFae16]

I think the question shouldn't be can we but should we. If you were given the choice between living a few hundred years or having children, which would you choose? As human life-span gets longer, we should start majorly restricting the number of children people have.

[@JustAnotherHo]

an extra year of being able to tell people to get off my lawn, IS A YEAR WELL LIVED PEOPLE.

[@rawstarmusic]

This included all the old things we know I think.

[@wallyzielinski5097]

I think we as a society are too caught up with living longer. A short life can be more fulfilling than a long one, if you play your cards right. All things are impermanent. It's the nature of the universe. Instead of trying to artificially lengthen our lifespans, we should be trying to build a more full life with the short time we are given.

[@lt.infernape7733]

i honestly think not our generation not the next generation but the generation after that where our great grandchildren live is when they have invented enough medicine to live for possibly 500+ years because medicine like technology is rapidly growing and eventually our great grandchildren would say " he died at 200 years old? what a shame he was so young"

[@MellonBrewd]

You expect people from our generation to make smarter people?? Good luck

[@lt.infernape7733]

-_- welp its possible

[@chubles42971]

You got your title wrong DNews, it should have been "Can We Live *Longer*?"