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MillennialDem

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7. No one wants to live forever if it means living a very unhealthy life forever. There are people who

Sat Apr 19, 2014, 10:22 AM

Apr 2014

are old geezers at 60 and there are those who are still relatively young in mind and body at 85 though!

I'm not sure I want to live forever but give me a couple thousand years to think about it. I'm signed up for cryonics. I have no misconceptions about whether it will work or not, just hope that when I do lose consciousness I instantly wake up in the future healthy. If I don't, well I'm dead anyway.

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Get Rich, Live Longer: The Ultimate Consequence of Income Inequality [View all] xchrom Apr 2014 OP

Living longer may not be all it's cracked up to be. CFLDem Apr 2014 #1

I agree yeoman6987 Apr 2014 #2

No one wants to live forever if it means living a very unhealthy life forever. There are people who MillennialDem Apr 2014 #7

It is about diagnostic physicals pipoman Apr 2014 #3

I was diagnosed with stage III kidney cancer two years ago when my annual physical revealed it. Jgarrick Apr 2014 #4

I'mnnot saying that the physicals we are allowed by pipoman Apr 2014 #5

I don't disagree with your larger point. Jgarrick Apr 2014 #6

My sister PasadenaTrudy Apr 2014 #8

my sister died of it a year and a half ago. pipoman Apr 2014 #10

So sorry... PasadenaTrudy Apr 2014 #12

True but not everyone rich is ok yeoman6987 Apr 2014 #9

Nobody lives forever pipoman Apr 2014 #11

Health care policies are important, obviously daleo Apr 2014 #13