Could a person achieve immortality?
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I think that life will continue to be more prolonged and prolonged...but immortality?  I don't think so.   I don't think it can happen, but more importantly, I don't think that it SHOULD  happen.\n\nI think immortality would probably be a curse more then a blessing.  I don't know if I would want to live forever.
749263
No.  For 6,000 years of recorded history (note:  I said recorded history) man has managed to get thru life.  I think he will continue to do so.
286141
I wouldn't want to live forever. I would just want to live life to it's fullest, doing everything I can. Because otherwise, it'd be boring. You wouldn't have the joy of taking risks, or if everything was perfect, there would be nothing to spend time on to improve. It'd be pointless because if you lived forever, you would be able to do everything, not get those feelings of when you have to choose one thing. I don't know, I just think it'd be better to be on "a restricted time frame"
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I believe that there will never be something like that invented. However you might cheat a bit (not in the near future). You could use a device that copies everything in your brain everyday. Next you would need something to form your body when you die. That would be best done when you are younger. So when you die a machine automatically brings back you to life and you then go and install your latest memories. In that way you lose only the most important knowledge and that is how and why did you die! Personally I believe that you must not even try to live indefinitely because we are here to evolve and nothing more...
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No. Never.\n\nThe average age, while increasing will hit a maximum for a variety of reasons.\n\nGeneral wear and tear. We can cure and prolong disease but even with the most advance techniques we cannot replace plain worm out parts. \n\nEven if this could be done in the future, it would pose a bit of a problem.  POopulation overgrowth. Where woould peopel live? What would they do? How would they eat?  It is not like your boss would die or retire, if immortal there would be food shortages, job and economic issues, etc.\n\nThe current focus is about improving the quality of life of the years we DO have and making them more enjoyable.
830997
Yup, like God--eternal.  More than our minds can comprehend.
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A female, age 53,could outlive her  63 yr. old husband by 12 years.  This of course  doesn't take into account any pre-existing medical conditions.\nRN
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Immortality is a tough one.  There is, however, plenty of scientific evidence that aging is in large part genetically programmed. Individuals with certain genetic mutations for example succumb to a premature aging disorder called progeria. Teenagers with this disorder have grey hair, wrinkles, bone degeneration and many other symptoms associated with old age. The fact that these events are genetically controlled, indicates that drugs or genetic therapies can be designed to regulate either slow down or completely inhibit these processes. We would first need to identify the genes that are important.  Studies from a number of groups working in the fruit fly system have used old school breeding strategies to accomplish this.  They raised a colony of fly's separating males and females.  They then allow the last remaining, oldest male and female to breed. Repeat this process 10,000 times over 15 years and what you get is a fly with a life span >3x that of a normal fly (that's 400 years to you and me).  You can then compare the genes that are expressed in your super-fly to that of a normal fruit fly and identify candidate longevity  genes.  This has been done and the human versions of these genes have been identified. The results are fascinating and certainly have the potential to guide therapeutic development.  All of this will not help you if you walk in front of a bus at the spry, young age of 184. Alas immortality is just a dream, rooted in selfishness and a fear of the unknown. Live the life you have to the fullest and try to make a difference in the lives of others.
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Thats an interesting question.\nSorry to hear about ur granny's death.\nU cant say anything surely about science, but I dont think Chemists will be able to create the elexir of life.\nRather Molecular Biologists or Biochemists are better candidate, who deal with living cells and organisms and all the chemical reactions going on there.\nPersonally I think its quite impossible for us to be immortal, there is a Bioloigcal clock which regulates all the processes, but surely we can delay the date.\nAbout ur comment, "There is no reason u wanted to be a chemist if u dont have a dream......" I disagree. There r some who r fascinated with Chemistry without just any reason........(at least me, though I'm studying undergraduate course on Genetic Engineering & Biotechnoogy).
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Yes, it could be possible but are you willing to live that way throught out your life?  If you ask me, I prefer to live as human being. To be able to live, to care for each other. \nThere is nothing wrong if we die one day, its because we are HUMAN BEINGS.
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Never dying... because that way.... you could live forever... have many different careers or many different spouses too
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I like this.  I really, really like this.\n\nAbout the immortality part...I feel we are immortal as long as some part of us, even an influence on another person, goes on.  So, not just genetically, as in having children.  But if I've touched someone's life, then I live on through them.  And if because I touched their life, they shared something about me with someone else in their life, then I live on through that person as well.  And so on, and so on.  So in this way, we are all immortal.
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It is impossible to do so.\n\nTo escape old age, one must die earlier. To escape death, one must get older. But everyone will die eventually...
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Yes.\nBut some - no, make that a lot of - scientists are working on aging, and some believe that if you can eliminate aging, then the natural lifespan of a human will be on the order of 1500-2000 years.\n*Then* we run into some major, new social problems (read John Wyndham's 'Trouble with Lichen' for a slightly dated but still unsurpassed exploration of some of the issues), but I imagine they're not insurmountable.\nNew Scientist ran an article on this in January (link below.) If you want it free you can download it in podcast form. It's pretty neat.
216331
He came from someones imagination. It is impossible to has existed for eternity. Everything has to have a point at which it was created or began.
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Unless they are in frozen state for long periods. As in long distance travel. They will not age.
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If you are now middle aged or younger and in average health you are probably already immortal. If you read Ray Kurzweil's books or web site with an open mind he makes a very convincing case for technological progress within the next 15-20 years being able to push back the average life expectancy to the point where by 2040 we will not only be able to eradicate but reverse all effects of aging and to greatly enhance our mental and physical abilities.