• turmacar@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Dick Van Dyke is also still around and doing projects heading towards 100.

    If keeping busy is keeping them around I look forward to each of their 150th birthday parties.

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      There are more and more promising trials of life-extension drugs, procedures and genetic tricks, It seems like we might be only a couple decades away from extending human lifespans* by around 30% from conservative averages.

      I wonder how many of us are going to slide under that lowering Indiana-Jones door. And how many people are going to live on after seeing people they care for dying to a disease that we still think of as natural. and will look back at one day the way we look at how we lived before germ theory or antibiotics existed.

      * in this case, “human” will probably mean wealthy white men, but it will be a start.