Hi Terethian-
I like the idea of getting rid of death. There are a lot of medical people who are hard at work in that area, and the current thoughtis that we can probably go as far as a couple hundred years. - Now, does that mean that all these wrikles and age spots will go away, or am I going to get pruney all over, like a crinkled ball of foil?

The idea of a pill is a good one. Some form of Viagra might be good, but then we'd have the problem of how to get the coffin to close.

At risk of being called a horror monger who is trying to scare people, My vision of death is a replay of what I've already done, although without havng the ratiocination to argue against it. As I age, I am losing faculties. Memories vanish as neurons get untied. Soon the entire brain will stop, and so will everything that I've been getting from it. Based on that, it seems that we'd do well to live in a manner that won't be a bother if we need to face it later. Actually, this isn't necessarily scary, but more like being bounced back through a mirror - like Alice in many ways. The only other proviso that seems prudent is to leave myself a heritage that I can encounter next time around so as to save a lot of huffing and puffing to recover it.

dave

Well the way I see it we may one day discover the solution to stop cells from deteriorating and stop reproducing. If we in fact do this we would drastically slow the aging proccess. At this point when people die from tragic accidents it would be even more of a blow to everyone. Imagine someone dying of an accident when it could have been avoided. Naturally even with stopping aging we would most likely have to deal with cancers and other deadly health risks like heart disease. I think the average life expectancy however would easily increase to 150 years old if we could stop the aging proccess... with some lucky ducks living 200+ years because of good health and pure dumb luck!

Oh, and the people that are just a head in a jar but undergo the same age prevention proccess would most likely have a life expectancy of 200+ easily... perhaps HUNDREDS of years more! They no longer have to worry about a heart attack or other body factors that could fail and lead to death. Before you say, but that's not life!!! They can probably let you control a computer using special techniques be it controlled by muscle movement, eye movement, or even a special voice implant (which would have to be invented) or actually connecting usable arms that accept commands directly from the brain. (That one would be really hard to make. Probably not going to happen.) Bottom line, you would be able to interact with people and use computers. I'd be happy using a computer or talking with people.... especially if someone told me the alternative was permanent death!!!!!