1.1 Billion people to die...

[EPW]

...within the next 20 years.

Just putting things into perspective.

[DaShi]

All because Ben wouldn't apologize to Asher.

[Asher]

H1N1!!!

[Heraclitus]

I don't understand why we waste all this money on "cures" for AIDS and cancer. Why don't we slay the dragon already... A "cure" for aging is what we should really be after I mean its the only disease we are 100% certain we shall all suffer from if only we live past our midlife.


And before people waste time arguing with me on all the supposed reasons we shouldn't ... http://www.senescence.info/myths.html

[Blaupanzer]

Be aware that virtually all 6.5 Billion people alive today will be dead within 100 years. If anyone could figure out how to prolong people's lives without further deterioration, they would be very rich. So people try. But prolonging one's life from say 90 to 102 when those last twelve years are spent deteriorating and demented does not seem like a good idea.

[Provost Harrison]

Be aware that virtually all 6.5 Billion people alive today will be dead within 100 years. If anyone could figure out how to prolong people's lives without further deterioration, they would be very rich. So people try. But prolonging one's life from say 90 to 102 when those last twelve years are spent deteriorating and demented does not seem like a good idea.

Well a significant increase in longevity only really makes sense if it is productive life. I think people are looking for eternal youth rather than just getting older and older...

[Space05us]

I know the first steps to eliminating cancer and heart disease!

1. Private citizens cannot use modern vehicles, they must ride a bike, or walk, or something of that nature.

2. Companies can no longer sell products that are not whole foods.

3. No more cancer or heart disease! We all live long enough to die of dementia, yay!

Unfortunately very few people are willing to cooperate with such a plan, so they all continue to die at 50 from heart attacks and cancer, and doctors waste their time trying to solve a problem that really shouldn't be a problem to begin with. As a result awesome people like us are doomed to only live to 100-200 years.

[Provost Harrison]

You'll live a long life...of utter boredom...

[Space05us]

You'll live a long life...of utter boredom...

Just because you hate yourself doesn't mean we all hate ourselves as well.

[Provost Harrison]

Well I'd like to know how you got to that conclusion. I was thinking that if all you could eat were beans and bizarre powders and never drinking or anything, well, rather you than me.

[Japher]

Cancer was created by drug companies so they can sell you drugs. I know, because I used to work at a drug company, and basically all we did was repackage tic-tacs.

[EPW]

I don't see what dragons have to do with aging.

[Space05us]

Well I'd like to know how you got to that conclusion. I was thinking that if all you could eat were beans and bizarre powders and never drinking or anything, well, rather you than me.

I thought you were talking about living a long time being boring.

I like to drink, as evidenced by my many drunk posts, and I like junk food. The problem is that most people never learn moderation and as a result they end up with high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, all the leading killers in the western world. Many of which are preventable by living a healthy lifestyle, yet instead of *****-slapping people and telling them to straighten up the medical community has been busy designing pills to help extend their last few miserable years on Earth. Instead they should be designing pills to help extend the well being and lives of healthy people.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I don't see what dragons have to do with aging.

I believe it is because we failed to keep up the human sacrifices.

[EPW]

I believe it is because we failed to keep up the human sacrifices.

Oh, well that makes sense.