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Could increased lifespans lead to a lack of resources? The discussion of increased lifespans through medical and technological methods of addressing the various processes of aging raises the concern that this could lead to a lack of resources and result in conflict and suffering. The argument suggests that we will run out of resources if we develop the technology […]

Today we are going to take a look at how pensions fit into a world where healthy life extension is possible and the potential challenges that society faces due to that. When the old outnumber the young If you work in social security, it’s possible that your nightmares are full of undying elderly people who […]

Some animals don’t age; we may do likewise. “Could humans become immortal?” is something we get asked quite often, and the answer depends on what exactly you mean. When it comes to immortality, what you mean is important Whether human immortality is possible greatly depends on how you define it. If you define it as […]

Some people worry that increasing human longevity will stagnate society. One concern people have about increasing healthy human longevity is that society would become stagnant and innovation would cease as a result of people living too long. We will be taking a look at this concern and why we believe that stagnation probably won’t happen […]

Some people worry that increasing human longevity will reduce motivation. Of all the concerns and objections that I’ve bumped into as a rejuvenation advocate, saying that healthy longevity would deprive us of motivation in life is by far the most bizarre. I have a hard time believing this concern is so widespread that it needs discussing, but […]

Some people worry that increasing healthy human longevity will create a gerontocracy. Suppose there was a country ruled by an evil dictator. Further, suppose the entire world was plagued by a terrible disease affecting 100% of the population. The disease isn’t infectious, but it is congenital. It progresses extremely slowly over the course of several […]

Will Increased Lifespans Cause Overpopulation? Any discussion of rejuvenation biotechnology almost certainly includes the subject of overpopulation and the objection that medical advances that directly address the various processes of aging will lead to an overpopulated world. Such dire predictions are a common theme in many discussions involving advances in medicine that could increase human lifespans. Overpopulation is a […]

Jeanne Calment is commonly known as the person who has lived the longest, reaching 122 years old before her death in 1997. Born on February 21, 1875, she watched the Eiffel Tower being built, she sold blank canvases to Van Gogh for him to paint, she was nearly 40 years old when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was […]