Longer life could have downside

Hearts, lungs, veins, ect...aren't built to last more than 100 years or so, and it all depends. It is pretty much impossible to stop the natural affects of aging, the reason the age of death has gone to higher ages is recent years, is, in part, because of much better health care, but unless you plan to start making cyberoptic and robotic parts for everything, there's a certain age that we all reach and then die, and that's pretty much not changable.
 
Aging seems to be a process, but it seems to be a natural process that has predictable events. If the cells can be convinced to not age as quickly, then the person won't age as quickly. Meanwhile, this buys time to try to find alternative ways of getting the cells to become younger (and it some cases, it would make sense to rejuvenate cells with younger cells, and let the younger cells take over function).

In today's MSNBC article on this topic, they debate whether life extension would make us less human. I cannot see how it would, but the President's bioethics advisor seems to think that human lives are better if they're short (and this guy helps form medical policy?)

As well, they touch on the concept of boredom. I don't really understand that - being bored is something that aflicts people, sure, but there's no reason why you should get more bored the older you are .... there are always challenges and entertainment.
 
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