POLL: Do you want to live to be 120?

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I am just asking a couple questions here. Please answer truthfully as I am going to be using these results for a little experiment. I cannot explain what at this point because I do not want to taint the results. More later.

Poll Information
This poll contains 3 question(s). 50 user(s) have voted.

Poll Results: Do you want to live to be 120? (50 votes.)

Do you want to live to be 120? (Choose 1)
* Yes - 50% (25)
* No - 50% (25)

Are you a male or female? (Choose 1)
* Male - 86% (43)
* Female - 14% (7)

How old are you? (Choose 1)
* <15 years of age - 14% (7)
* 16-25 years of age - 66% (33)
* 26-35 years of age - 12% (6)
* 36-45 years of age - 8% (4)
* 46-55 years of age - 0% (0)
* 56-65 years of age - 0% (0)
* >65 years of age - 0% (0)

 

I don't think old age would go down well, definatly not that old! You'd be pretty much useless

 

That was quite difficult to answer, I would have preferred an "it depends" options for the first question. I'd only want to live to a very old age if I could keep a reasonable amount of health and mental faculties, and if those I loved around me were also in a similar position. But as that's not likely, I voted "No".

 

Yeah same thing that's been said already. If you're talking about living to be 120 with the 40 last years of your life being seriously ill, restricted from normal life, and so on.. then it's a definite no. If it's a life of a fairly good health till the end, then why not?

 

I definitely wouldn't want to live until 120. Your gf,and your family dies,even your sons die and your grandsons have their own sons.Well that would suck!
"Look son this is your grand grand daddy,he's 120!"
YEEEECK

 

If i now had to choose, without knowing what the future holds (ill health, nuclear war leading to the survivors living bad quaility lives, etc) then i'd have to say that i'd prefer to live until i'm supposed to. Not that i'm saying i believe in fate, coz i prefer to think i affect my own journey through life.
My vote reflected this.

 

I'll qualify my YES vote with the assumption that medical technology has advanced to the point where everyone can live a fulfilling life - not merely exist - to that age. Otherwise, there's no way I'd want to be a lonely, freakish machine-bound vegetable simply for the sake of saying "Hey, I made it to 120!"

 

Personally, barring un-natural methods (what the hell ever that actually means), I'm expecting something at or just over 90.

That age pretty much runs in my family. The few people that have died before, were subject to some other kind of fairly intense pressure.

Mustard gas. Car wreck. Diabetes. Hepatitis.

You know, come to think of it, no one has ever died from liver sclerosis. And, I know a few of them qualify as alcoholics.

Lord help me. I think I've got the "drinking gene".

 

Just bring the years on baby! I am counting on medical science here and at the time I start to get old they have actually a cure for aging! Then 120 is nothing and I will be able to live several centuries more in the body of a 35-40 year old man. Mhwuhahahaha!

 

Likewise, I would have to say yes, provided I'm healthy enough to actually DO something with these last 40 years, and that it doesn't involve me outliving most of my contemporaries by a long margin. Hopefully, the extra time would allow me to figure out exactly what I want to live for, and then do it .

 

No. If I look at how so many old people have to spend their last decades, I'm happy to leave by the time I'm 60.

I think I'll be more than fed up with mankind's stupidity by then anyway.

 

No way. I've worked in an old people's home, I know what goes on behind the scenes. You do not want to know. And what kind of life do you have at that age? It's pointless

 

Asthma, irregular day/night cycle, specific lifestyle, drinking... Well being 20 in three months I feel like getting close to halfway.
On the other hand being able to have a dancing each night in a week and active sightseeing each whole day (aka holidays) or drinking&dancing each weekend in whole semester I could add some ten years for will/charisma-based functionning bonus

120 is too much anyway. Maybe if aging didn't apply or some elf-style longevity were concerned... Then yes, it would be wonderful to see how the world changes on a 1000 year basis for example... But only then. Not if I were going
to undergo aging up to that level.

 

heck when Im gonna do weird, funny, **** in me pants since i´ve lost my musclecontrol, then you just can kill me, no serious

 

The way I'm going, I'll be dead at age 30. Oh, wait...that means I should have had my mid life crisis 3 years ago!

 

When this body gets too run down, I'll just forcibly project myself into someone else's again.



[ January 28, 2003, 07:25: Message edited by: The Deviant Mage ]

 

Okay ... this is my case. And this is making certain assumptions.

Basically once i've reached retiring age with my wife (whom i love very very much and our bond is so close that it is truely bonded into one) and my children are set up and living on their own. From there, I would want to die with my wife ... or if not, die of a broken heart.

 

Hell yeah! I want to live as long as I can, because when I do get there, there will be advanced enough medical technology to keep me well

To be honest, I don't think I am going to live that long. My habits are so unhealthy that I doubt that I'll see eighty. Besides, I will probably manage to cut my own head off with a bluntr sword or soemthing

(The loony sword gal)

 

Heh... I don't want to be over 40. All of the good things have already happened and you are soon going to be senile. YEK.

 

It depends. In good health, and my family is with me till the end, yes. That is not very likely though, so I voted no as what's the point of getting 40 extra years if you have nobody to spend them with?