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We will gain the means not only to heal ourselves, but to heal Earth of the wounds we have inflicted. Since saving lives will increase the number of the living, life extension raises questions about the effect of more people. Our ability to heal the Earth will lessen one cause for controversy.

Although people of all ages will benefit from these advances, the young will benefit more. Those surviving long enough will reach a time when aging becomes fully reversible: at the latest, the time of advanced cell repair machines. Then, if not sooner, people will grow healthier as they grow older, improving like wine instead of spoiling like milk. They will, if they c...

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Eric also said:

We will gain the means not only to heal ourselves, but to heal Earth of the wounds we have inflicted. Since saving lives will increase the number of the living, life extension raises questions about the effect of more people. Our ability to heal the Earth will lessen one cause for controversy.

Although people of all ages will benefit from these advances, the young will benefit more. Those surviving long enough will reach a time when aging becomes fully reversible: at the latest, the time of advanced cell repair machines. Then, if not sooner, people will grow healthier as they grow older, improving like wine instead of spoiling like milk. They will, if they choose, regain excellent health and live a long, long time.

Eric said:

Imagine someone who is now thirty years old. In another thirty years, biotechnology will have advanced greatly, yet that thirty-year-old will be only sixty. Statistical tables which assume no advances in medicine say that a thirty-year-old U.S. citizen can now expect to live almost fifty more years - that is, well into the 2030s. Fairly routine advances (of sorts demonstrated in animals) seem likely to add years, perhaps decades, to life by 2030. The mere beginnings of cell repair technology might extend life by several decades. In short, the medicine of 2010, 2020, and 2030 seems likely to extend our thirty-year-old's life into the 2040s and 2050s. By then, if not before, medi...

Eric said:

Imagine someone who is now thirty years old. In another thirty years, biotechnology will have advanced greatly, yet that thirty-year-old will be only sixty. Statistical tables which assume no advances in medicine say that a thirty-year-old U.S. citizen can now expect to live almost fifty more years - that is, well into the 2030s. Fairly routine advances (of sorts demonstrated in animals) seem likely to add years, perhaps decades, to life by 2030. The mere beginnings of cell repair technology might extend life by several decades. In short, the medicine of 2010, 2020, and 2030 seems likely to extend our thirty-year-old's life into the 2040s and 2050s. By then, if not before, medical advances may permit actual rejuvenation. Thus, those under thirty (and perhaps those substantially older) can look forward - at least tentatively - to medicine's overtaking their aging process and delivering them safely to an era of cell repair, vigor, and indefinite life-span.

I know people like that also, but the people who don't are far fewer then the ones that do learn from there mistakes. Personally I don't know if I'd want to live to 1,000 but longer then 90 with slowed down or no aging would be amazing. Think of the advances in technology that would be made. What new things would Einstein have come up with if her had lived for even double the human life-span. Some people will say that extending the human life span would lead to over population. True, but, I believe that not to far in the future humanity as a species will be about to live off the planet Earth. So to me I've come to the conclusion that the benefits far out weigh the risks, sure we might repea...

I know people like that also, but the people who don't are far fewer then the ones that do learn from there mistakes. Personally I don't know if I'd want to live to 1,000 but longer then 90 with slowed down or no aging would be amazing. Think of the advances in technology that would be made. What new things would Einstein have come up with if her had lived for even double the human life-span. Some people will say that extending the human life span would lead to over population. True, but, I believe that not to far in the future humanity as a species will be about to live off the planet Earth. So to me I've come to the conclusion that the benefits far out weigh the risks, sure we might repeat some terrible mistakes and blow everyone up or something, but it seems like that could happen now anyways.