Like everybody before you, you’re going to die. But thanks to modern medicine and health practices, you’ll probably live much longer than your ancestors did. On average, at age 50, you have more years of life ahead of you than your great-grandparents had at age 40. Not just more years of decline, but more years of health. And these changes in life and health expectancy aren’t just happening in rich countries. They’re transforming the world.

That’s now. But aside from bad lifestyles, accidents and such, research into longevity might one day extending lifespan to hundreds of years. Imagine the changes that would incur and require. Issues like health care, population density and so on. And if we reach a point where you die only when you want to, suicide would have to become an accepted part of life. Mandatory birth control? Serial marriage contracts?

So, would you want to live forever if you could? If not, how long? Assume that we’re talking also being able to at the least, push off our current physical and mental health issues of old age until you’re hundred of years old so you are active and productive all that time. Science fiction has dealt with this issue for decades. How would you if it were possible?

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