How Long?

No...200 years old would be a tad too old. I will be 73 next week and I already get tired sometimes.. According to "The Tomb Clock" I will live until I am 92 years old!! LOL Check it out http://www.tombclock.com/

Just because scientists and doctors can make something happen, that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

Only if money didn't matter, and everyone was at peace. I doubt that people living to 200 would be routine for everyone, just the "elite" who can afford premium health care. Who would want to endure 200 years of poverty or pain?

hi P1kef1sh 200 years is a long time and I am not in my best of healths. I am also unemployed and stay at home (due to ill health) and during the past few years since my confinement I have found that relationships, friends and many other things change if such a thing happens. Considering the situations I am in... well, 200 years does seem to be quite a long lone battle. Things might have been different if I was healthy or even this 200 years thing came with a guarentee of great health, vigor, employment and of course... ample opportunities to learn and live.

i would love to live forever but always look the age i am now, or maybe 10 years younger

i dont want to live for 200 years because i know that not everybody lives that long, and eventually my loved ones will die. i dont want to be the one left and they are all gone. i dont want to feel that im along just because i wanted to live for 200 years. i want the normal thing.

Hmmm so have I. I am only 55, well nearly 56 but I am told that I am going to live for another 30 odd years and I am not sure I want to. What is the point if the quality of life is terrible. I currently try to live just day to day and not think about the future because it scares me too much. I am told I have rheumatoid arthritis and that is one of my all time nightmares. I have images in my head of twisted fingers that cannot function, not to mention the pain levels. I try not to think about it and I minimise how much pressure I put on my fingers so I do not get sore joints but I have no idea if I will get worse or not. The unknown is scary. I am already ill with chronic fatigue that no one knows anything about and cannot treat let alone cure and I think that the option of euthanasia should be allowed. I would like to go out at my own choosing. But live to 200? No. I believe that the future will be a nasty place and even if I was healthy with everything working fine I have no wish to see things get worse than they are now. Society writes us off at 50 unless we are rich and can pay our own way. If you are lucky you stay in your job as long as possible but if you lose it and you are over 50 you have no chance of getting another one. If you are rich, fine, if not then you face a life of poverty as well as growing ill health so why would anyone want to live like that.

hi pikey well I am 85 and in fairly good health, yes if I could stay at least this healthy although I now use a walker sure why not to 200 as it would be interesting to see how the world would change and hopefully for the better.Like you it depends if ]I could keep my mind as healthy as it is now and keep myself healthy.If I became like my roommate no no way she has become senile and its so sad as she was so smart a few years back. from hatley.

I would love to live for forever, but not feeling the way I feel now. I do take comfort from the fact that I didn't expect to get even this far, and now it looks like I might have another 5 years or so of ever-decreasing quality of life; I will likely even make my three score and ten. On the other hand, I am sorry I bred a child, since I wouldn't want to be him or his children in the world I see coming in the near future, so what would be the point of long life if the world is likely to be a fairly nasty place to live in? No, much as I fantasise about what I could do with another 150 years odd (assuming better health than I now don't enjoy), I think my plan to take early retirement once the quality of life becomes too negative is the right one. I can't afford Switzerland, probably, but there are people who can help in finding a painless retirement technique, so .... Lash

I personally would not mind living that long Why? I often find my self thinking what the world would be like in 50 years time! if what I think is going to happen come to pass...I Am just curious I think but it would be nice to be there to see the changes in the world and people...but if I Am to live that far I would like to be fairly healthy and sound of mine and of course not to live in poverty!...I guess living to 200 in the future is quite possible may be in the next 40 to 50 years or may be sooner...since I was born [ and I Am just 67] science have advanced incredibly fast and of course there is still much more to come so who knows what the future will bring? the possibilities are endless and lest be honest the human race is still in a very primitive stage there is still a lot to learn!

I could handle 200 years as it would give me more opportunity to do all the things in life that I want to achieve, like travelling to plenty of different parts of the globe. I would want to remain at least as good as I am health wise for much of that time in order to want to do it though. There is not much use in living long term if your body is not up to doing much. How are you feeling? Recovering well?

Definitely not. To be honest, I don't even want to see 100. I think the prospect of people living that long is dangerous for humanity itself. Even with an average life expectancy of--what is it now? 75? 80? Even with this shorter amount, people are still taking their time here for granted. Dragging the average human lifespan out even longer would encourage people to be less productive overall and put less influence on how beautiful life can really be. For example...if I had two weeks to get something done, I'd hurry and complete it. If that same project had a new deadline of a month or two, I might slack off a bit, waiting until the last week or so to even get started. This is how most people work...and waiting until the "last minute" simply doesn't work for life in general, since you have no control over when it abruptly ends. With a life expectancy of 200, you might see people waiting to fulfill personal dreams, putting less emphasis on keeping in touch with those who matter, etc., until it's too late. On a lasting note, people are so materialistic that I don't think anyone would want to live that long unless we could also prolong physical youth and attraction. Basic human biology follows its own course...all people hit puberty within a few years of each other, later on our skin loses its battle with the sun and the elements and creates wrinkles and spots, women stop being able to bear children around the same time as the rest of the women, and by 70, you've reached a point where your body systems will start to deteriorate and fail, and appearance-wise, you look just about what you will look like until you die. Naturally, our purpose in life is over at a certain point; trying to enforce a longer lifespan will have devastating consequences for both human culture and what it means to be human.

It depends on me or my health. I don't want to live more than 50 years.

i do not want to live untill 200 years lol i don not even want to be old. uyou begin to look miserable unbeaytiful. i do not want to do something myself. i think i am too little to decide something myself. i mut have somebody who tell me wthat to do. lol i don't want to get old. ~best wishes :)

Well now if we knew we were living to the age of 200, I think our bodies wouldn't get as old as they are now..well mine at least..haha...so maybe i would still look like a young lady at 100..heeheee..of course it depends on my lifestyle and what i would be doing at that age??

50 years is still a long way off and in the condition that i am in physically there is no way i will last that long nor do i want to.There is so much strife and stress in modern living that the prospect of living 200 years would be like having to face rigourous life imprisonment in jail. I will be very glad to exit this world when my time comes.

If I could live to be 200 years old and HEALTHY I totally would - of course! But the thing is I would imagine at the ripe age of 200, you would be falling apart physically and mentally.

I don't want to live till 200 years old because it is really hard to have friends for sharing at that age. If i don't have much money at that time, it will be the big problem also.

I would not want to live until 200 years old. my gosh, i would really feel all left out, with all my colleagues already gone. i'd be the only one who's still alive, and that could be a bit lonely at times. i believe that not even the presence of your next generation could suffice the loneliness. it's more of like a constant longing to the people you were with. i believe that dying is giving chance for another human to experience life, while we let go of what we have went through... so, living up to 80-90 years old would be long enough for me..

I have way too many interests, next year I'm studying mechanical engineering, although honestly I'd like to study all kinds of engineering, and that's not to say I wouldn't add design and business to my studies. I enjoy programming and photo-editing in my free time (when I'm actually supposed to be working). I have to say, I would love to live till 200 to accomplish all these things, although as you said, it would all depend on what my health is like.