Like say if you were immortal but you still age. How will your body continue to function after say 100, 150, 300 etc?
What would happen to our bodies if we lived forever?
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Like say if you were immortal but you still age. How will your body continue to function after say 100, 150, 300 etc?
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Impossible to answer since we do not live forever. It probably would not be great though.
There’s a short science fiction story on this somewhere.
The reason we die is cells break down. To live forever you would need perfect cellular health and therefore the body would be fine.
Immortal but still aging? That’s just a cursed existence. You’d basically be a slowly decomposing zombie with student loan debt forever.
At 93 my mom said “When you can’t see to read, and you can’t hear, and you need a wheelchair to move, and the food doesn’t taste all that good any more, and the kids don’t come around to visit much, the whole ‘eternal life’ thing doesn’t seem to be what it’s cracked up to be.”
Well, if we lived forever it would be because our bodies could somehow regenerate itself. For me a more interesting question is what would happen to our minds. For instance if you were 800 years old, could you still remember your childhood, your parents?
Aren’t there apps that will age a picture? Maybe AI can do it? Tell it to keep aging the picture but ignore death
You’d want to die in about 125 years.
You would slowly forget things and people you once knew. Your life would become some weird fiction if you looked back at it.
It would be a nightmare.
Obviously asked by a person not yet in their 50’S or 60’S – about he time the pain starts to settle in as your daily companion. I seriously doubt any but a tiny number get any joy in living past 100.
how would immortal apply to cell replication?
Run out of houses
Right now I think the research for aging says our cells would need to remain youthful to live longer. But, I would theorize that very old people would have drooping earlobes while looking 24 – 40. Anything that loses elasticity over time would still do that.
They will eventually give out on us so I guess we would just suffer after that point
We’d need continuous replacement parts when the old ones wear out
They’d probably demand to be moisturized
Outside of injury and disease aging is what kills you.
Your DNA becomes more and more damaged over time and starts making worse and worse cells.
If you kept living and kept aging, you would just acquire more and more genetic damage and mutation.
You’d basically look like Trump and be as brain dead. That orange is actually chemicals to keep his head moist
If we find a way to house consciousness outside of the body and place it into a new body with the human experience I’d be good with that. I’d happily live forever. I can never get tired of staring at a stream or walking in the woods.
For sure somebody’s already pointed this out, but this is the premise of Jonathan Swift’s island of Luggnagg in Gulliver’s Travels, from 1726.