Can science provide us a special medicine that can let us live forever?
468539
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...
641207
read this.  http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20060522/sc_space/towardimmortalitythesocialburdenoflongerlives  i think it WILL happen. and for me i WANT to live longer. I want to see our species travel beyond our solar system and find new life. Then i will be happier.
844863
i think we can only stay alive til we're 100.  my friend said that her grandma is 106 but i think she's lying. but if you stay healthy u can live up to 102 probably.  the meaning of life is to enjoy and get loved.
355091
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.
72319
Live long and prosper.
173949
I'd rather not live forever and enjoy life as much as I could. There's a reason why nature has a negative side to kill off the humans with diseases. Not only this, but if one was mortal, one would feel that he/she should try his/her best to achieve life to its fullest. Besides, who are we to play God and say that this person should live forever?
301189
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.
102356
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).
324197
No- it is impossible.  All of us are forever changing as a result of continued life experiences.
1011711
Depends if you are the biotech godzilla or the person with the disease.  If you have a disease and actully want to live then curing it would be the only viable solution.  However if you are the drug maker you are going to want to run people dry to fill your pocket..  that is what is happening only in this country as medical is government fed in virtually every other country around.
2475
no.I believe you will die at 100 years.Are you happy now???You should not think too much, or consult a doctor and find another work to do.Don't worry,be happy!
704129
Allow me to address your questions in a different order than you have asked:\n\nFirst of all, there is a reason why it seems like they're saying stem cells might cure just about anything.  The reason is that it seems that way to scientists too!  Let's put it this way - given the right set of stimuli, we KNOW a stem cell can grow into any cell in your body.  We know this because that is what stem cells already do on their own.  The potential for medicine is staggering.\n\nImagine what repairing a car would be like if all you could use were whatever parts happened to be in the nearest junkyard.  You might be able to use duct tape to hold things together a little longer, or if you're lucky you'll have exactly the right part available, but otherwise mostly you're making do and hoping.  That's kind of where medicine is now with major problems.\n\nIf some of the promise of stem cells pan out, however, the potential exists that any time something goes wrong, doctors could produce a new part and replace the old one.  Like having a catalogue of custom car parts at your fingertips.  Lost your arm in a car accident?  Your pancreas stopped producing insulin and now you're diabetic?  You don't like that old, wrinkly skin you have and want something new?  NO PROBLEM.  (You can see, I hope, why that might make people excited)\n\nBut it's not easy.  There HAS been some success with stem cells of various types.  An experimentor in Asia caused some stem cells to grow into new capillary tissue in a patient, replacing something which medicine is otherwise completely incapable of fixing right now (those capillaries are just too small).  Some isolated tisue has also been grown from stem cells such as cartilage and heart tissue, demonstrating the possibility of growing just one organ for a graft.\n\nMajor diseases are still in the works, however... in large part because we still have a lot to learn!  One study just recently started injecting stem cells into the brains of terminally ill children - not intending to cure them, but just intending to learn how many they have to use, how and where they will implant, and what risks they pose to the patients.  As you can see, we're still kind of at the beginning of this whole thing, even though there has been some very promising work.\n\nAs to why the government has to pay for it... it actually is the case that the government pays for MOST scientific research that goes on.  Who else is going to pay in a capitalistic society?  Companies only want to fund things that are going to pay off directly for them; in this field they ARE competing with other countries and applicable results are probably still a ways off for things that would be massively profitable.  Private citizens don't usually have the resources to fund research much themselves, though Howard Hughes' vast monetary legacy would be one notable exception.\n\nThe bottom line, really, is that if researchers can't find money to do their work here, they will go someplace where they can.  That is why Missouri was trying to pass a law explicitly allowing such research - biotech companies in that state found that they were completely incapable of attracting scientists to work for them at any price that they could afford.  Some countries DO have different research structures:  in Japan the government can get all affected companies to pool resources and share the resulting technology, for example.  And perhaps for humanity as a whole it hardly matters whether Sweden, South Africa, or America makes all these discoveries... but it CERTAINLY matters for the economies of those specific countries!
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well based on the second law of thermodynamics..that the entropy (disorder) of the universe always increases and a living organism fights entropy to build its complex structures I would say no. \nAlso, most human cells have a built in number of times they can replicate themselves (called telomeres, the ends of the chromosomal DNA) which acts as a "cellular clock" to tell a cell when it is time to die or stop reproducing. \nBoth make immortality pretty tough to conceive of.
519458
of course- if I was dying of a serious illness I'd want any medication that would help me- tested on animals or not. Its survival of the fittest, simple.
460950
You're referring to mind over matter and/or biofeedback. Anything is possible when it comes to the mind and body. Even science doesn't know our true potential yet. The smartest of humans only ever use approximately 30% of their total brain power. There is so much untapped power in our minds that it will never be assessed in out lifetime.
833388
Yes..\nas long as they continue all doctors care and take their medications as directed...\n\nIt is Possible
803355
there is no exact treatement on traditional , one of advisce is please consulth the physical thearpist  he will give extended affected person life