These posts never seem to attract much attention on here, which is strange to me given the number of olds. That said, scientists for the first time were able to reverse aging in a small number of people with a chemical cocktail. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02638-w

Aging is a disease. We are rapidly leaning how to fight it. I'm not sure we will ever cure it, but I believe living to 120 while still functional will become common in my lifetime. (currently 37). I hope I can keep myself together long enough for science to hit it's next grand slam in longevity.

The worst possible thing for our planet would be extending life expectancy any more than it is.

There is some risk, but here's a few things to think about.

1. The olds are rapidly becoming the only sane people left on the planet. Their wisdom is useful.
2. We are talking about extending healthy productive life. Imagine if we could stave off cancer, heart disease, degenerative disease by twenty or thirty years in most people. That would literally inject TRILLIONS of dollars per year into the global economy through increased productivity and decreased medical expenditures.
3. In the coming decades our species will be expanding beyond this planet. We'll colonize the moon and mars and who knows where else in the coming generations.

We are going to need people to die sooner if we are going to get free healthcare

No we don't!

as one of the "olds" on here I can tell ya that it is a bad idea.

like said, people need to die off for the human race to continue to exist, we have more people now almost than we can handle as a planet.

besides, climatechangeglobalwarmingiceagearmageddon is comin in 11 yrs. and it won't matter then.

Well I'm fine with all you guys dying. As long as I can stay healthy and active I plan to try and hang on. Now that said, I will not hang on for 10 years living as an invalid hooked up to a feeding tube having some lady named Rhonda wiping by backside while getting visited by my kids once a month because "you have to fight until the bitter end." I plan to go elegantly as soon as I can no longer take care of myself.

So, it's not really a fountain?

The course of death you are describing is not the normal one for most. Definitely artificial feeding is not the norm. Raise your kids right and they'll be with you and around you until the end. If your kids only visit you once a month then you're a failure as a parent.

I can agree with the control of other diseases (cancer, heart disease, etc) as beneficial. Personally I wouldn't want to live to be way over 100. I'm looking forward to the afterlife.

You write like a 37 year old afraid of death.

I agree with your premise of quality of life, just not quantity.

My way of doing “old” is just trying to live a good life every day and enjoy the loved ones that want to be around me-
I will go when it’s my time, not before-
Everyone does it the way they choose-
You are right about the little interest in this subject, I may open a thread like this up, but I just don’t spend but a minimum amount of concern about when or how I am gonna die, I concentrate on how I live-

Just drink up

I wouldn't have a problem living longer if I was healthy. I suspect in the next 50 years we will see cancer stopped, birth defects eliminated, life expectancy extended, maybe even the ability to regrow lost limbs. We as a species would be be foolish to not try and go to the stars. The technological advances necessary to do so are possible, we just haven't figured them out yet. There is a person, perhaps born today, that will develop FTL drives for space, another born today will crack the cancer code to eradicate it.

Just because an Einstein says something can't be done does not make it necessarily so. He was one man, admittedly profoundly intelligent, but still just one person. The same applies to anything else that we as a species tackle....someone somewhere will come with a fix/cure/invention, etc. I'd just like to be around to see all of this happen.

I read the entire article.
Meh.