Jae Onasi Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 A discovery made by Carey 1992 & Curtsinger 1992 which suggested that the period of age-related deterioration eventually comes to an end, leaving a residual post-aging period. Those of us in the medical field call this period of ending age-related deterioration 'death'. I've seen lots and lots of elderly people, sometimes over the course of a number of years, and I can see the decline from year to year. I've never seen this decline suddenly stop until death. A lot of the body's cells are programmed to die after a certain period of time. Some cells can't repair themselves--we only get a certain amount, and once they're gone, they're gone. Until we can figure out how to maintain cell repair or repair cells that can't repair themselves, and stop the programmed cell death, we won't be able to achieve immortality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nancy Allen`` Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 You may believe in impossibilities but not me, nothing is impossible. Except religion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windu Chi Posted October 5, 2006 Author Share Posted October 5, 2006 Those of us in the medical field call this period of ending age-related deterioration 'death'. I've seen lots and lots of elderly people, sometimes over the course of a number of years, and I can see the decline from year to year. I've never seen this decline suddenly stop until death. A lot of the body's cells are programmed to die after a certain period of time. Some cells can't repair themselves--we only get a certain amount, and once they're gone, they're gone. Until we can figure out how to maintain cell repair or repair cells that can't repair themselves, and stop the programmed cell death, we won't be able to achieve immortality. Did you, Jae read the e-books that I have link to this post? I understand your opinions about not believing in immortality. Physical violence can cause death, diseases can can cause death and genetic afflictions can cause death. But I don't believe in impossibilties, the evidence against immortality is base on evidence of the example of life on Earth. There is still a whole galaxy and universe out there left to explore, to possibility discover if that evidence stands up in the rest of the universe. Everything, I believe has a solution to be found. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windu Chi Posted October 5, 2006 Author Share Posted October 5, 2006 Except religion. What do you mean, Nancy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nancy Allen`` Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 The '**** God and **** everyone who believes him' opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windu Chi Posted October 5, 2006 Author Share Posted October 5, 2006 The '**** God and **** everyone who believes him' opinion. Who said that? I believe in God, I just hate that thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jae Onasi Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 Did you, Jae read the e-books that I have link to this post? No, because I've had enough anatomy/physiology and read enough journals to know we've got a very long way to go. I didn't say it was impossible, I just delineated some of the things we'd have to overcome to achieve immortality, and we don't begin to understand cell functioning to that degree yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nancy Allen`` Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 Who said that? I believe in God, I just hate that thing. Ah. Well fell free to explain why, we might be able to help. Not to covert you to being a Christian, I wouldn't do that, but to be able to accept that people choose to follow it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 The question should be: Why on Earth would we want to achieve it? Afterlife or no, I certainly don't want to spend eternity here. I would prefer oblivion to that scenario. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterRoss08 Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 Agreed with Qliveur here. Why would we want imortality when eventually this earth is gonna run out of resources heck maybe this Earth will go byby someday who knows. Do you want to be here when that will happen if it does? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
igyman Posted October 7, 2006 Share Posted October 7, 2006 Although I voted yes, I'm actually not quite sure what to think. I am sure that humanity will not discover the means to immortality during our lifespans, but I am also sure that many medical breakthroughs will be made while we are still alive and some of them could possibly have something to do with prolonging the human lifespan. Will we ever achieve immortality? Who knows? If humans change their priorities in life and instead of each person working for his/her own gain, humans start working for the benefit of the species, anything might become possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windu Chi Posted October 8, 2006 Author Share Posted October 8, 2006 Agreed with Qliveur here. Why would we want imortality when eventually this earth is gonna run out of resources heck maybe this Earth will go byby someday who knows. Do you want to be here when that will happen if it does? Humans will not remain stuck on Earth forever we are going to leave this planet, solar system and the galaxy eventually. If any of us obtain immortality our choices of residences will not only be this planet in this solar system or even in this galaxy while experiencing it. The jury is still out of where those luck few of us will dwell if immortality is obtain by those few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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