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Originally Posted by bookyboy
I have to be honest - I'm glad this sort of thing doesn't exist (yet).
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And I honestly don't want to die. Even more, I don't want my children and grandchildren to die.
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Originally Posted by bookyboy
One of the key abilities for society to change and evolve is that "people die".
When you see how inflexible and "against change" huge swaths of old people become . . .
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I think the original idea of the thread is that you don't get biologically elderly (see
#4).
In your favor: Many today lock themselves into a POV or ideology or scientific paradigm well before their life is half over. The OP idea will give us more humans like that.
On the other hand: The worldwide decline in birth rates, now under way, will probably result in a big human population decline before this medical advance occurs. This means that the human population will already be heavily skewed towards the elderly coming into the medical revolution. The new eternal 40 year olds would then make our average psychological age younger.
I'm thinking that:
a. There's likely to one day, long after I'm dead, be a medical advance putting us in just the situation this thread proposes.
b. The effects on humanity are impossible to know in advance. Maybe suicide will be more socially acceptable. Or maybe, because parents will have to live with their sorrow for a much longer amount of time, suicide prevention measures (like accident prevention measures) will become extremely effective. This will, I'm guessing, be accompanied by an anti-suicide ethic making the OP survey into an absurdity.