Longest Possible Human Lifespan?

[Scott Lawlor]

So I had a random thought today, I remembered that the oldest person to ever live was this French woman named Jeanne Calment who lived to be 122 years old, born 1875 and passed away 1997 (crazy!).

Then I wondered to myself, if a person had very good genes and a healthy lifestyle then once they were old were hospitalized, getting frequent medical attention, any replacement surgery needed or machine-type life support systems (maybe stem-cells?) etc, how long could they live? What is the extent of human mortality?

 

[Aegon Spengler]

http://www.manhattanbeachproject.com/

Maybe forever...

 

[SevenSamurai]

The Singularity is nigh

 

[mrsinister]

Methuselah lived to 969 years. It's a fact.

 

[Anung Un Rama]

http://www.manhattanbeachproject.com/

Maybe forever...

lol, that read like a dick growing ad for old people.

 

[Aegon Spengler]

One species of jellyfish, Turritopsis nutricula, reverts to a sexually immature stage after reproducing, rather than dying as in other jellyfish. Consequently the species is considered biologically immortal and has no maximum lifespan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_life_span#Exception

So far its 122 but if we can get a few things down, change the way our cells do their thing, we could live foreverrrr

 

[A Very Serious Cat]

I think there's a good chance that during my lifetime we'll see the average lifespan in first world countries increase significantly

 

[Aegon Spengler]

lol, that read like a dick growing ad for old people.

 

[Lead]

For my generation, I think 90-100 could be a more likely lifespan. However, I bet I'll die earlier than that.

 

[ThinkGreen]

I watched a thing on 60 Minutes a few months ago that was saying that ~120 yrs old could be the average in the very near future. Pretty crazy.

 

[BEER]

I watched a thing on 60 Minutes a few months ago that was saying that ~120 yrs old could be the average in the very near future. Pretty crazy.

I don't want to live that long.

 

[Scott Lawlor]

I watched a thing on 60 Minutes a few months ago that was saying that ~120 yrs old could be the average in the very near future. Pretty crazy.

Woah, I couldn't imagine living another hundred years. I'd probably be like a great, great grandfather or something. Imagine what MMA or the fight business would be like then, we'd be sitting in our wheelchair telling stories of "back in my day, you had Anderson Silva!"

 

[ThinkGreen]

I don't want to live that long.

Well you'd be a lot healthier too. You wouldn't be old and frail at 80 like people generally are today.

This was somewhat theoretical, though.

 

[SevenSamurai]

Methuselah lived to 969 years. It's a fact.

imagine the testicles on that old dude

 

[ApatheticNerd]

I wonder how responsible it is to go after a technology like this? When I think of no death I think of massive overpopulation. How could we counter the massive boom from an extra 40 years on the lifespan?

 

[D3thr0n3d K1ng]

Who would want to live long unless they could remain relatively youthful the bulk of the time? I mean would you really want to live an extra 100 years in a wheelchair?

 

[footgod]

the mind is the biggest problem
even if we dealt with the various degenerative disorders how much information can it store?

200 years worth? 300? We forget to save room in the brain. What happens to a mind that rooms out of memory?

 

[Benoco]

Woah, I couldn't imagine living another hundred years. I'd probably be like a great, great grandfather or something. Imagine what MMA or the fight business would be like then, we'd be sitting in our wheelchair telling stories of "back in my day, you had Anderson Silva!"

Anderson will probably still be champ.

 

[Scott Lawlor]

I wonder how responsible it is to go after a technology like this? When I think of no death I think of massive overpopulation. How could we counter the massive boom from an extra 40 years on the lifespan?

In a expanding universe, if we could develop faster means of space travel and learn how to live on similar planets to Earth then its possible. Obviously, lots of variables involved though.

 

[Anung Un Rama]

the mind is the biggest problem
even if we dealt with the various degenerative disorders how much information can it store?

200 years worth? 300? We forget to save room in the brain. What happens to a mind that rooms out of memory?