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WOUD U LIVE IN GOOD HEALTH FOR 1000s OF YEARs ?

 
 
Reply Sat 2 Jan, 2010 08:25 am

If it were possible for u to live in good health
for 1000s of years, wud u choose to DO it ?
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djjd62
 
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Reply Sat 2 Jan, 2010 08:38 am
nope, 70+ years is fine with me
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Sat 2 Jan, 2010 08:51 am
@djjd62,
We 'll miss u.
Region Philbis
 
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Reply Sat 2 Jan, 2010 09:04 am
@OmSigDAVID,

that was a great twilight zone episode...
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djjd62
 
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Reply Sat 2 Jan, 2010 09:11 am
@OmSigDAVID,
where am i going?, i'll only be dead
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Sat 2 Jan, 2010 09:14 am
@djjd62,
djjd62 wrote:

where am i going?, i'll only be dead
To another dimension of sight, of sound & of mind
whose boundaries r those of imagination.

ONLY your human body will be dead, not u.
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Brandon9000
 
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Reply Sat 2 Jan, 2010 09:31 am
Yes, I would.

To the people who say no to this, I wonder if we came up to you at some point , say age 75 or 100, and asked if you were ready to die immediately, if you'd ever say yes. The hypothesis is that you are, or would have had an option to be, youthful and in good health.
djjd62
 
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Reply Sat 2 Jan, 2010 09:55 am
@Brandon9000,
what is this obsession with long life, it would never be enough, what's 1000 over 100, your still going to die eventually

now complete immortality, that i might consider, as for having to die eventually, the status quo works for me
Brandon9000
 
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Reply Sat 2 Jan, 2010 10:00 am
@djjd62,
djjd62 wrote:

what is this obsession with long life, it would never be enough, what's 1000 over 100, your still going to die eventually

now complete immortality, that i might consider, as for having to die eventually, the status quo works for me

Okay. But if you didn't age, would there be some point at which we could come up to you and you'd agree to be killed at once?
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sat 2 Jan, 2010 10:11 am
I do not wish to die so long as I can live in good health and circumstance - be it 75 years or 750 years.
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BillRM
 
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Reply Sat 2 Jan, 2010 12:54 pm
@OmSigDAVID,
The average age would likely be limited far below a thousand years by the law of chance causing deaths by unavoidable accidents or the actions of your fellow men and women.

I wonder if someone had ever run the numbers for the average life span if no one would die from sickness or old age.
Brandon9000
 
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Reply Sun 3 Jan, 2010 02:42 am
@BillRM,
BillRM wrote:

The average age would likely be limited far below a thousand years by the law of chance causing deaths by unavoidable accidents or the actions of your fellow men and women.

I wonder if someone had ever run the numbers for the average life span if no one would die from sickness or old age.


Without sickness or age, the only thing left is misadventure, and there is no way to calculate a probability distribution under those circumstances. For one thing, it would depend on how much misadventure.
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Sun 3 Jan, 2010 02:48 am
@djjd62,
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what is this obsession with long life, it would never be enough, what's 1000 over 100, your still going to die eventually

What an amazing legacy one could leave after living 1000 years. The accumulative knowledge alone would make it worth it.
BillRM
 
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Reply Mon 4 Jan, 2010 05:30 am
@Brandon9000,
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Without sickness or age, the only thing left is misadventure, and there is no way to calculate a probability distribution under those circumstances. For one thing, it would depend on how much misadventure.


Do not tell the life insurance companies that.
BillRM
 
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Reply Mon 4 Jan, 2010 05:50 am
One of Robert Heinlein series of books deal with a Lazurus Long who did in fact live for thousands of years in the books and all that time living a life of high adventure with not a moment of boredom.

I love Heinlein writings and his books but in the back of my mind was a voice stating that no matter how wise or skill he was with weapons sooner or laster someone was going to shoot him in the back or he is going to be at the wrong place at the wrong time well short of the time span we are talking about.

Then Heinlein have him machine gun in no man land in World War One after time traveling there, however his friends then used time travel to save him.

But short of being able to be save by time travel rescues there is no way anyone can live for thousands of years without having a tree branch or something similar fall on your head.



chai2
 
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Reply Mon 4 Jan, 2010 06:39 am
Yes, I would, if I were in good health.
Brandon9000
 
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Reply Mon 4 Jan, 2010 06:53 am
@BillRM,
BillRM wrote:

Quote:
Without sickness or age, the only thing left is misadventure, and there is no way to calculate a probability distribution under those circumstances. For one thing, it would depend on how much misadventure.


Do not tell the life insurance companies that.

Insurance company actuaries use the observed rates of death due to aging. In the absence of aging and illness, if all deaths were caused by misadventure, one could simply observe the distribution which occurred, but one couldn't calculate it from theory, and the distribution would likely have a vary large standard deviation. The Central Limit Theorem dictates that the distribution would be n0rmal.
djjd62
 
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Reply Mon 4 Jan, 2010 07:38 am
@Brandon9000,
Brandon9000 wrote:

djjd62 wrote:

what is this obsession with long life, it would never be enough, what's 1000 over 100, your still going to die eventually

now complete immortality, that i might consider, as for having to die eventually, the status quo works for me

Okay. But if you didn't age, would there be some point at which we could come up to you and you'd agree to be killed at once?


that point is called sunday afternoon
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djjd62
 
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Reply Mon 4 Jan, 2010 07:41 am
@tsarstepan,
tsarstepan wrote:

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what is this obsession with long life, it would never be enough, what's 1000 over 100, your still going to die eventually

What an amazing legacy one could leave after living 1000 years. The accumulative knowledge alone would make it worth it.


personally, i doubt i'll leave any better legacy the longer i live, more likely the opposite, more chances to screw up

i care not for long life, as it is i set very simple goals for existence, once it was to live long enough to see the harry potter books published, my current goal is the release of the last harry potter film, after that, who knows
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BillRM
 
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Reply Mon 4 Jan, 2010 09:31 am
@Brandon9000,
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Insurance company actuaries use the observed rates of death due to aging. In the absence of aging and illness, if all deaths were caused by misadventure, one could simply observe the distribution which occurred, but one couldn't calculate it from theory, and the distribution would likely have a vary large standard deviation. The Central Limit Theorem dictates that the distribution would be n0rmal.


Why do you think that accidental deaths can not be figure in the same as any other cause of deaths and as a matter of routine happen to be?

Why do you also think that the SD would be larger for dying by way of a car accident then by dying from some disease or other?

Most people who are cover by insurance in their 20s or 30s overriding likely cause of death would be by accidents and the insurance companies figure out their rates with no problem at all.
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