Immortality (in Medicine)

[Deacon Frost]

Not to kind of sway off topic here, but a form of immortality that you really do see in science fiction a lot is closer than you think and is even close to human trials.

http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_roth_suspended_animation.html

Suspended animation allows for a human to be alive, but not age at all. The applications for this are endless, and they've already seen positive results on a few animals. While this doesn't technically increase our life expectancy, it allows us to live past our probable death date.

 

[oxlogan23]

One thing you guys must remember is that medicine doesn't cure aging... You will still age the same, but there will be less dangers to kill you

 

[Vulge]

One thing you guys must remember is that medicine doesn't cure aging... You will still age the same, but there will be less dangers to kill you

In the future, there might and most likely will be; a medicine to make your body flush out your aged tissue and re-grow new tissue. I believe the human body has the power to do this

 

[owain jones]

human brain is generally good for 250 years (how they calculate that i'm not sure)

but I do know we have mechanical/manmade parts for just about everything, excluding the liver which is currently being worked on in the UK. I can't see average lifespan going past 100, considering the stress it would put on the government.

 

[tiger9110]

Such a thing as extending our life expectancy is nice however the human body has its limits, and such methods of doing so would be enormously expensive :s

 

[stasior]

im back on sythe
some sciency nerdy junk
-mitosis is cell replication
-i am literally a totally different person than i was 10 years ago...why?
-mitosis and its products (daughter cells) so i am composed of new cells.
-naturally mitosis is controlled after a few cycles we die.
-cancer cells are uncontrolably growing.
-uk scientists are trying to harness this to create...in theory a "death vaccine"
im an AS bio students ny post grads feel free to laugh at me

 

[stasior]

i know the above post is abrupt and leaves alot of stupid questions soz im on psp but my exams are over, i wont hesitate to expand on any point in more detail- i wna be a biochemist so this topic is intresting to me

 

[dieseL x]

I spoke to a professor working at the NPL in Britain who talked to me about helping to remove tumors through the use of bubbles in the next few years!

 

[BB Services]

This thread is not here to discuss 'magical' immortality. Rather, it is to discuss the medical possibility of immortality. As noted by some other users, we are on a whole new paradigm of medicine; the life expectancy for American men in 1900 was 47.9. Today, it is 75.6.

In just over 100 years, we nearly doubled our life expectancy. Many illnesses and inhibitions (e.g. Polio and bone wear) are now treatable and in some cases fully curable. This is just the beginning, too - scientists and doctors are still cutting people up on cold beds with sharp metal objects.

These facts considered, what do you think will happen within your lifetime? What do you think your actual lifetime will be? Will we be living to the age of 150 or more by 2100 if diseases such as heart disease and cancer are as easily treatable as polio or broken bones are today?

I'd hate it if we found immortality. When family members die, you wish they lived forever, but if you had to live forever, you'd HATE it, it'd be just a curse. Look, I'm alive and I always will be, or for atleast another 1000 years.
I'd hate it anyway, IMMORTALITY IS A CURSE.
Plus, as Finn said, It's inevitable. You can replace pretty much any vital organs, but really, Your body itself is just going to decay away and rot. Even if I replaced all my vital organs, I'd still have my brain rotting away and if they replaced that, I wouldn't be the same person anyway. Death happens, everywhere around us is death. Immortality is never going to happen.. and if it did, I'd never opt for it, I'd rather die before I live that curse.

 

[Zulwarn]

I believe the oldest living person recorded was around 110-years-old. I'm pretty sure (with the right health attributes) that people could achieve to living over 100 more often, and possibly even hit 150-200-years-old at a maximum.

 

[Angelmax]

I believe the oldest living person recorded was around 110-years-old. I'm pretty sure (with the right health attributes) that people could achieve to living over 100 more often, and possibly even hit 150-200-years-old at a maximum.

How can you possibly say that someone could live to 200? You said it yourself, the oldest person on record was 110.

The only way anyone living today could extend their own lifespan would be to somehow adapt to the extremely slow metabolism possessed by some animals - notably the giant tortoises, which have been known to live to and possibly exceed 200 years.

However, surviving solely on grasses and occasional fruits would, of course, have it own health risks, not least boredom.

 

[Mechanical Scythe]

I believe it is possible but our general publics stupidity seems to be advancing us in the wrong direction.

 

[Tgump]

How can you possibly say that someone could live to 200? You said it yourself, the oldest person on record was 110.

The only way anyone living today could extend their own lifespan would be to somehow adapt to the extremely slow metabolism possessed by some animals - notably the giant tortoises, which have been known to live to and possibly exceed 200 years.

However, surviving solely on grasses and occasional fruits would, of course, have it own health risks, not least boredom.

I don't think you observe the full grasp of what immortality in medicine means. Mentally, humans on their 'last limbs' before they die of 'natural causes' are still alert and sound. If there was a way to negate diseases such as Alzheimer's, granting that it's a medicinal eventuality that all bones and organs in our body can be replaced, I don't see it at all improbable that we could live for hundreds of years.