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Pill to help you live past 100 years soon - but would you?

post #1 of 29
5/12/10 at 9:46am
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Enough with the politics right now.

There may be a pill to help you live past 100 years old available soon. Obviously it won't be covered by insurance - or will it? They are saying that centarians are usually quite healthy and die suddenly; they don't get the horrible diseases like Alzheimers or cancer. Regardless I'm sure it will cost a pretty penny.

Would you take a pill to artificially give yourself extra years of life? What price (monetary) would make it worthwhile? Would you do it if it means leaving nothing to your heirs except longer time with them?
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post #2 of 29
5/12/10 at 10:09am
Will it make everything that's already worn out quit hurting? If it's still gonna hurt, I think I'll pass.
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post #3 of 29
5/12/10 at 10:25am
OMG yes!. I want to live for as long as i can
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post #4 of 29
5/12/10 at 10:28am
Wow what a great idea; something to artificially enhance the human population. Just what the planet needs.
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post #5 of 29
5/12/10 at 10:36am
I've had two great grandparents who died in their 90s, and they had such different attitudes about life.
My great grandfather was talking about death for as long as I could remember him, and it seemed like he was tired of life, and some family members think he ended his own life because they found an empty prescription pills bottle, next to his bed, but they aren't sure he just finished a prescription or took it all at once and didn't do an autopsy because he was very very sick anyway. He was such a great guy though, and was a world war 2 veteran..
Anyway my grandmother who is 85 is paranoid of dying, she is in perfect health but she is always measuring her blood pressure, which is 120/80, but she won't believe the blood pressure monitor... the idea that a lot of her friends have died really scares her and I know she loves life and would do anything to have more...
So I guess it depends on the person. I really have no idea what I would feel like, but I would most likely get the pill if I could afford it, because I really think life is much more interesting than death, and I don't believe there is an afterlife, just that we die and turn to dust or plant fertilizer.
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post #6 of 29
5/12/10 at 10:45am
. A longer life doesn't mean a better life. If I could keep my health and mindthen I would consider it.
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post #7 of 29
5/12/10 at 10:48am
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Originally Posted by Keycube View Post
Wow what a great idea; something to artificially enhance the human population. Just what the planet needs.
Except it would only really be available to those who could afford it. Those that are adding large amounts of births to the population are in developing countries.


It sounds interesting, but what would the eventual economical cost end up being? Unless the people taking it stays small or most keep working many governments (at least now and for the next few years) wouldn't be able afford a larger population living even longer.

But since it's cell death that causes aging, this could have other applications. So I do think it's good to keep developing it and to see what else it could be used with.
Though to be honest, I'm more excited about the fact that there seems to have been a cure for cancer discovered.
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post #8 of 29
5/12/10 at 11:03am
Id personally prefer if there was a cure for cancer, alzheimers, etc etc etc found rather than a pill that can add years onto someones life. I wouldnt take it, when its my time its my time just send me to wherever with my Mom-Mom and all my fur babies that passed away.
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post #9 of 29
5/12/10 at 11:12am
No way, Jose!!! I really don't to live any longer than nature wants me to
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post #10 of 29
5/12/10 at 11:21am
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Originally Posted by 3CatsN1Dog View Post
Id personally prefer if there was a cure for cancer, alzheimers, etc etc etc found rather than a pill that can add years onto someones life. I wouldnt take it, when its my time its my time
Yeah i have to agree with that, id rather cures were found first
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post #11 of 29
5/12/10 at 7:01pm
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Originally Posted by Skippymjp View Post
Will it make everything that's already worn out quit hurting? If it's still gonna hurt, I think I'll pass.
Good point. And I think I'll pass anyway. I've got lots more living to do, but when it's my time, it's my time.
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post #12 of 29
5/12/10 at 7:10pm
Depends on what kind of years are added on. Good productive years where I could travel, help people, and have fun? I could go for that. Respirator years? No thanks.
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post #13 of 29
5/12/10 at 7:56pm
I'll pass on it.
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post #14 of 29
5/12/10 at 8:17pm
Given my family history I expect to live to at least a hundred anyway. So no, I don't think I'd take a pill to extend my life. However, if it could cure my dad's Alzheimer's I'm all for it.
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post #15 of 29
5/13/10 at 5:22am
It depends on my quality of life.

I admit that I do not intend to go graciously....I intend to go fighting every step of the way! As long as my health is good and I could still be a productive member of society, I might try it.
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post #16 of 29
5/13/10 at 7:33am
If I knew that this world would be better, I would say yes, but I know there's a much better place to go and not have to go thru this world's destruction. So I will decline - I don't WANT to be around when the end comes!
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post #17 of 29
5/13/10 at 8:38am
Nope, I think I'll just live as long as I'm intended to live, and be happy with that.
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post #18 of 29
5/16/10 at 7:11am
Probably not. I don't intend on dying while I'm healthy, happy, and capable ... so why prolong my life if I'm going to be hurting or sick? I don't believe I'm going anywhere except into a crematorium when I die, and when it happens, it happens.

I'll go when it's my time. Plus, I'd hate to pay so much money for a pill and then some freak accident happens to me anyway and family members could have used that money for other things.
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post #19 of 29
5/16/10 at 9:39am
I don't believe it. That pill is going to cause some kind of bad side-effects for sure. I want to see cures for cancers, then many of us would live a lot longer.
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post #20 of 29
5/16/10 at 9:57am
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Originally Posted by SwampWitch View Post
I want to see cures for cancers, then many of us would live a lot longer.
Look it up, there is one. Though it still has a lot of testing to be done it looks like it's going to work. Expect to see it available in around 5 years.
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post #21 of 29
6/26/10 at 1:36pm
My answer: "I'm not sure --but probably no"

Goldy, there's hope on the horizon for Alzheimer's. This article is from last year: http://blogs.ft.com/scienceblog/2009...ays-off-again/

Let's hope funding for this professor and his team doesn't stop.
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post #22 of 29
6/27/10 at 4:07am
In a heartbeat. Sometimes, I wander around outside and look at my trees and gully and creek and feel sad that someday I will be gone and it will continue without me.

I do want to live forever. i love my home, my family and my critters. So, the answer is yes, I would take the pill.
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post #23 of 29
6/27/10 at 8:13am
I might... but only if my husband, my Mom, my brothers, their families, our cats... all took it too!
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post #24 of 29
6/27/10 at 9:36am
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Originally Posted by strange_wings View Post
Look it up, there is one. Though it still has a lot of testing to be done it looks like it's going to work. Expect to see it available in around 5 years.
There are cures for some kinds of colon and breast cancer and that's about it. Even then, cancer can always come back and it will continue to until we figure out all the origins and are able to avoid the causes... and there are many depending on the type of cancer. Some melanomas are even thought to be a type of fungus - we actually know very little about what triggers the cancer cells. I wish that I could "look it up" as you say, and see that cancer will be curable in 5 years. I'd love to give my sister that information.
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post #25 of 29
6/27/10 at 9:40am
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Originally Posted by SwampWitch View Post
There are cures for some kinds of colon and breast cancer and that's about it. Even then, cancer can always come back and it will continue to until we figure out all the origins and are able to avoid the causes... and there are many depending on the types of cancer. Some melanomas are even thought to be a type of fungus - we actually know very little about what triggers the cancer cells. I wish that I could "look it up" as you say, and see that cancers can be cured. I'd love to give my sister that information.
You'd have to look in science journals. When I originally made that post it was being talked about on the news and on some science programs. It's for more than colon and breast cancer, in fact they discovered it because it kept killing the leukemia cells they were trying to study in the lab - apparently the students were getting really upset that their lab work..well, wouldn't work.

Again, this is new. If you're referring to something else it's not what I'm talking about. The guy only recently made the discovery and the lab/company backing and our FDA are going to sit on it for at least 5 years. Then there may be some phase III trials.
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post #26 of 29
6/27/10 at 9:43am
Even a cure for leukemia will not be a cure for all cancers - far from it because, like I said, cancers are all very, very different. But I think we're getting off-topic here.
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post #27 of 29
6/27/10 at 9:58am
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Originally Posted by SwampWitch View Post
Even a cure for leukemia will not be a cure for all cancers - far from it because, like I said, cancers are all very, very different. But I think we're getting off-topic here.
I never said it was a cure for leukemia, I said they discovered it because it killed leukemia cells. They've done more testing (yes animal testing) and it has so far gotten rid of several different types of tumors, the rest you'd have to research yourself. I won't do it for you since you won't believe anything unless you read it yourself.

And yeah, sure it's O/T. But it's an over month old thread and no one is going to add that much more to it on topic. Besides, what's the point of living longer if you just get cancer?
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post #28 of 29
6/27/10 at 10:05am
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Originally Posted by strange_wings View Post
... I won't do it for you since you won't believe anything unless you read it yourself.
I don't necessarily believe what I read, far from it, lol! But, I have talked to several cancer doctors at M.D. Anderson who are doing active research and and I do believe what they say. They're up-to-date on cancer research and that's where I got my facts.
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post #29 of 29
6/27/10 at 10:29am
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Originally Posted by SwampWitch View Post
I don't necessarily believe what I read, far from it, lol! But, I have talked to several cancer doctors at M.D. Anderson who are doing active research and and I do believe what they say. They're up-to-date on cancer research and that's where I got my facts.
But it's over in this side, so maybe they don't have as much information on it yet?
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