#JanesWorld: Would you choose to live forever?
There is not enough time to do all the work you want to in life, so could living forever be the answer to all your problems?
According to Albert Einstein, time is relative. It speeds up or slows down depending on how fast one thing is moving relative to another. So maybe if someone found a way to slow things down (this is just me being out there), then maybe, just maybe, we could all live a little longer.
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Would I choose to live forever? It's a tough one. I don't know if I'd say forever but certainly to see moments like my kids finding love, passion, and purpose as adults. It would be fascinating to see what happens in the world of fashion, technology, and kindness.
The 2011 documentary How to Live Forever that searches for the secrets of long life. It’s a weird film following a weird group of characters — like a 101-year-old beer-drinking, chain-smoking marathon runner named Buster, among others. Humans could once expect to live to around 23, we learned from the film, yet when I googled a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 72,197 Americans aged 100 or older in 2014. The oldest American on record is Sarah Knauss, who lived to the age of 119.
I also wouldn't like to live a life where I became too heavily dependent on someone.
Also, who would be by my side, Mr T surely, that's the one non-negotiable!
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However, before you become excited, it has already been confirmed by scientists that dying is an inevitable part of life and there is no way humans will be able to biologically live forever.
But they have tried...
From enhancing certain proteins which protect cells from ageing to extending telomeres – fragments of DNA which cap both ends of each chromosome and protect against the wear and tear of natural ageing – scientists have tried to halt the ageing process.
Let's be dreamers here: if there was any chance left out there, would you opt to live forever?
Let me know by commenting below.