I want to live as long as life has meaningful interactions. Medical advancements will eventually allow the wealthy to live for much longer, but I'd guess the vast majority of wage slaves will always live and die in a span of decades, not centuries.
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I'd only want a longer life-span if it also meant I didn't have to deal with being in a biological body. Something as ordinary as eating is already a chore for me; it is difficult for me to eat enough food to maintain my weight and I don't derive any sense of gratification from eating.
Give me a robotic body and I'd be fine with immortality. Being human is precisely why being alive sucks, from my perspective.
Until I get bored and decide it's enough.
Seriously, there's no point in going on for an infinite amount of time. At some point, I'll just get bored -- or perhaps I'll just have nothing left for me.
So in the end, I would love to live more than a single lifespan, but I'm not sure I'd want to live several thousands of years.
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With optimal health? Maybe until I'm too bored or depressed of life. If I'm still aging, to a point where my natural handicap prevents me from living an independent life.
Maybe set a sanity test that I would need to pass in order to access my medication.
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I want to live to 114, so I can say I've lived through three centuries.
103 years, 62 days, 52 minutes and 8 seconds.
for sure a few thousand years, millions might be too much.
We'll never know, Uther. I intend to live forever.
More seriously, It'll be like the elves of Arlathan in Dragon Age. After a while, we'll get sick of living and go to sleep in our own tomb.
This. And since my wife is not in good health, I want to live long enough and be physically strong enough to take care of her. However, other than that, I am not in the least concerned about dying. I believe strongly this life is not all we are. It is only a stepping stone. So no need to wait and hope for a futuristic scientific discovery.
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Lol! Good one. Worth a good chuckle for sure. And I agree.
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As long as possible. Already married with kids. I wouldn't mind outliving them. Could always support the family from afar.
I want to die right now.
I want to see the next Pangaea. That's going to take a while. Then my robot overlords can whisk me away to a new planet.
Would I want...
Kids? Maybe...
Wife? Absolutely.
It can hopefully only get better after this world
Millions i guess as long as i dont look like the great, great, grandad of a California raisin!!!
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Honestly, I'm not going to answer the married/kids part because that's like a whole different topic regarding whether or not my so called extended lifespan applies to everyone or just myself.
As for how old i want to live, it's a good question i'll give you that.
Fairly speaking, from a logical stand point, everyone would want to live "forever".
But since i'm not a kid anymore i'd say living forever is actually exhausting and unrealistically taxing to the mind.
Matter of fact, the mind can never be altered by technology, if it does then it is altering your very existence and then we start to question existence itself.
So regardless of whatever technology is invented in the future , whether it be artificial bodies,eternal regeneration or consciousness uploaded ( although in this case i feel like the mind can never be uploaded digital only mimicked), i'm unsure whether the mind can truly stay unaffected.
Inevitably if we live long enough we are bound to get increasingly bored until there comes a point in life where nothing ever surprises you nor will ever bring you joy nor sorrow again, i believe at that point we are simply fading.
So I would probably say more than the normal lifespan but probably nowhere near a thousand years ( in fact I don't think anyone can retain their sanity after more than 300 centuries).
Live forever and young looking. Never get married and never have kids.
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