A pill to double our lifespan is in the making

[Julgran]

According to this article, scientists are working on a pill which may be able to double our lifespan.

Isn't it ironic... it's like rain on your wedding day... ha ha!

Those scientists are working in the opposite direction. This article will give me nightmares.

 

[Ethereal Knight]

one thing people often forget to mention or don't know is that, although our life expectancy increased, our quality of life during our last decades actually decreased, as we are more and more plagued by chronic diseases like dementia, Alzheimer's, sarcopenia, diabetes and so on...

I don't think there's a lot of value in living long if we don't get basic autonomy and dignity.

 

[Julgran]

one thing people often forget to mention or don't know is that, although our life expectancy increased, our quality of life during our last decades actually decreased, as we are more and more plagued by chronic diseases like dementia, Alzheimer's, sarcopenia, diabetes and so on...

I don't think there's a lot of value in living long if we don't get basic autonomy and dignity.

I fully agree. We were meant to perish sooner and live a full and valuable life in fewer years. It's like comparing watching an interesting movie for two hours, in contrast to being forced to watch an uninteresting one for 90 years.

 

[Againstthewind]

Oh god, sounds like torture!

 

[symphony]

Kinda interesting to me that they don't bring up societal implications. Every aspect of the world around us is shaped around the assumption that most people will reproduce in their 30s and die in their 70s or so. If people could suddenly live until 200, that would all have to radically shift.

On the other hand, in this sort of world, voluntary death might be more accepted. 200 years is a long-ass time, and if people could theoretically eventually extend their life with "no upper limit", at some point there would have to be a choice to die, right? And maybe people would empathize with that more?

 

[FuneralCry]

I do not understand why anyone would want to live longer. The longer that someone stays alive, it is just prolonging their suffering. To me, non existence is always preferable to living. Death is the absence of all of lifes problems. Existence is completely pointless and unnecessary.

 

[Lost Magic]

Whenever I hear about people who want to live forever or get frozen or some shit I just piss myself laughing.

 

[outatime_85]

The story says the pill would remove cells related to aging.

Now, I do not know if that means it removes any of the other health issues that people deal with. If they do, that might be a game changer for some.

Just a thought.

Could the research imply that they are working on a way to keep future generations young or at least youthful enough so they can continue to be a part of the machine in case birth rates fall further than they appear to have already?

Also, should they become publicly available or mandated to be given at birth, would it possibly help the powers that be eliminate most government safety nets, etc.? (since no one would need to retire, etc.).

 

[Julgran]

The story says the pill would remove cells related to aging.

Now, I do not know if that means it removes any of the other health issues that people deal with. If they do, that might be a game changer for some.

Just a thought.

Could the research imply that they are working on a way to keep future generations young or at least youthful enough so they can continue to be a part of the machine in case birth rates fall further than they appear to have already?

Also, should they become publicly available or mandated to be given at birth, would it possibly help the powers that be eliminate most government safety nets, etc.? (since no one would need to retire, etc.).

You are making me see the future as even more bleak, but you are probably right

Such a pill may even only work on young people, since older ones have already aged to a degree that they may not benefit much from the pill.

As you say, it may be possible to hide our falling birth rates under the rug, and also to make people work longer - that's a horrific thought...

 

[GentleJerk]

I don't believe it. Modern science still refuses or is unable to do anything of great value for 99% of chronic illness, disease, and the various suffering that people around the world are enduring... yet they want us to believe they are going to make a pill that can double our life span? Could be on the market in the next ten years Pffff what a fucking joke. A new skin cream or dick pill maybe, but this?

It's tiresome. Oh, new HD images of deep uncharted space? Yeah. Well. The homeless guy I see everyday who sleeps outside of the bus station is still hungry and can't get anything to eat for dinner, so what fucking good is all this nonsense really.

 

[Julgran]

I don't believe it. Modern science still refuses or is unable to do anything of great value for 99% of chronic illness, disease, and the various suffering that people around the world are enduring... yet they want us to believe they are going to make a pill that can double our life span? Could be on the market in the next ten years Pffff what a fucking joke. A new skin cream or dick pill maybe, but this?

It's tiresome. Oh, new HD images of deep uncharted space? Yeah. Well. The homeless guy I see everyday who sleeps outside of the bus station is still hungry and can't get anything to eat for dinner, so what fucking good is all this nonsense really.

Well said!

I wonder, though, what an overdose of those pills would look like - would one live to be 9 000 years...?

 

[Moonlight Tears]

I couldn't do it.

 

[FML_]

I think I'll pass... Being alive for 20 years has already been bad enough, I don't need 140 more.

 

[castler]

Course I laugh at shit like this as they can design a so called solution. Same with how I just posted on the 'say anything' thread, u can drink basic stuff like coffee and gain a few extra miles, I mean days to live longer. But in the end we all know how we were created. So ultimately we can't do anything to "live longer" - all the scientists gags are just come-ons, but we can choose how to die faster. The man upstairs determines how long we live (normally).

 

[LastFlowers]

I fully agree. We were meant to perish sooner and live a full and valuable life in fewer years. It's like comparing watching an interesting movie for two hours, in contrast to being forced to watch an uninteresting one for 90 years.

As I am somewhat of a cinephile, your analogy is positively horrifying..

 

[KuriGohan&Kamehameha]

When can I get the pill to half my lifespan?

 

[not-2-b-the-answer]

According to this article, scientists are working on a pill which may be able to double our lifespan.

Isn't it ironic... it's like rain on your wedding day... ha ha!

Those scientists are workings in the opposite direction. This article will give me nightmares.

Why??????

Even if I didn't want to die, this planet is so overcrowded we are killing it!!!!!
Another fact the prolifers don't seem to understand.

 

[Julgran]

When can I get the pill to half my lifespan?

You will need to take the first pill and live for 200 years, and then you may know if there will be another pill which can cut your lifespan in half.

Why??????

Even if I didn't want to die, this planet is so overcrowded we are killing it!!!!!
Another fact the prolifers don't seem to understand.

You asked the right question - "why?". I believe that their answer would be "because we can". I'm leaning towards what @outatime_85 wrote above, though.

 

[castler]

The planet is overwhelmed with people, that's why I still c deer in the city where their clearly out of their zone.

 

[Rapière]

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I don't believe it. Modern science still refuses or is unable to do anything of great value for 99% of chronic illness, disease, and the various suffering that people around the world are enduring... yet they want us to believe they are going to make a pill that can double our life span? Could be on the market in the next ten years Pffff what a fucking joke. A new skin cream or dick pill maybe, but this?

Yeah, I don't buy it either. There isn't even a cure for cancer yet, because modern medical research has been moving at snails pace over the past few decades.

My guess is that this is just more hopium for normies, like space travel, designed to keep them docile despite the otherwise bleak future outlook and plummeting quality of life.

It does show how great people's fear of death must be, for them to embrace manmade horrory like this ons, just so they can keep flipping burgers, delivering amazon packages or sit in a tiny cubicle all day for another 100 years. Pathetic.

 

[GentleJerk]

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Yeah, I don't buy it either. There isn't even a cure for cancer yet, because modern medical research has been moving at snails pace over the past few decades.

My guess is that this is just more hopium for normies, like space travel, designed to keep them docile despite the otherwise bleak future outlook and plummeting quality of life.

It does show how great people's fear of death must be, for them to embrace manmade horrory like this ons, just so they can keep flipping burgers, delivering amazon packages or sit in a tiny cubicle all day for another 100 years. Pathetic.

It's not about a cure for cancer, it's about controlling it.

No joke, dead serious, on the news last night: Scientists have made a recent discovery that diet and exercise may be safer and more effective for preventing death from a certain type of heart disease, than the current recommended surgery and stent implants. However before any recommendations can be made, further research and clinical studies will be needed to better understand this, which may take another 20 years or more.

 

[LastFlowers]

The planet is overwhelmed with people, that's why I still c deer in the city where their clearly out of their zone.
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Looks like the deer had second thoughts..

 

[castler]

Looks like the deer had second thoughts..

Fortunately the consist was not hooked to anything, but the deer just watched me as I passed by - not afraid at all.

 

[whatevs]

My father said that until they start dispensing pills that double the size of your D he isn't interested.

 

[castler]

My father said that until they start dispensing pills that double the size of your D he isn't interested.

I wonder if woman could get a pill to double the size of their V/P?

 

[Someone123]

According to this article, scientists are working on a pill which may be able to double our lifespan.

Isn't it ironic... it's like rain on your wedding day... ha ha!

Those scientists are working in the opposite direction. This article will give me nightmares.

This is a theoretical plan, so that the people who take care of their health extremely well, and who get lu8cky, can have a lot longer lifespan. For most people their lifespan won't change based on this though, since once your arteries are clogged or you get cancer, the tqwo leading causes of deaths that accounht for the large majority of deaths, these pills won't help at all.

 

[lofticries]

It's like a vampire turning a person at the old folks home. Nobody wants that?

 

[Lost in a Dream]

This pill sounds like BS, but even if it ever becomes a real thing, I certainly don't want it. It would be nice to get a pill that puts me to sleep forever instead. That probably won't happen anytime soon either, but it's a pleasant thought.

 

[Enigmatic Sailor]

Any article website ending in ".uk" is tabloid garbage.

 

[Jumper Seoirse]

There are very rich people who would fund these trials, but the cost would be out of this world, there would still be mental health, disability, cancer and various other diseases, and no jobs for the young, I mean the 100 years old, . The government would raise the state pension age to 170 years old, and the pension providers would do the same so basically, you would work longer to pay more tax. The world would run out of space and war and famine would follow.

They should be funding trials to solve the problems we have today.

Cheers

Jumper Seoirse