Prolonging lifespans

[Autumnlicious]

I would love to be able to extend my lifespan, honestly. I have problems with dying, and I'm very curious about and interested in where humanity will end up in the next thousand years or so.

My plans are to utilize cryonics to preserve my brain after my body dies so that I can perhaps one day be reawakened. That's really all I can hope for right now.

Why would future humans choose to revive, from their perspective and time period, a savage?

People often assume that future generations would like to have them around.

Can you image what it would be like to be visited by your 15 century ancestors?

I don't want to.

[Hovik]

I would love to be able to extend my lifespan, honestly. I have problems with dying, and I'm very curious about and interested in where humanity will end up in the next thousand years or so.

My plans are to utilize cryonics to preserve my brain after my body dies so that I can perhaps one day be reawakened. That's really all I can hope for right now.

Why would future humans choose to revive, from their perspective and time period, a savage?

People often assume that future generations would like to have them around.

Can you image what it would be like to be visited by your 15 century ancestors?

I don't want to.

Your position precludes the possibility of acquiring cybernetic implants from those same people in the far future. Who's to say my brain couldn't just download the necessary information?

[Shell B]

You should take a look at telomere shortening/lengthening. There was a point at which it seemed like this might have some potential (and it still does) but there are some interesting trade-offs that they discovered. Reminds me of a greek myth to which I am unable to recall the exact details. A person asks for eternal life, but forgetful as we are, doesn't ask for eternal health or youth.

From what I have read on it, youth is precisely what you get with creatures like lobsters who live long lives this way. They get bigger, but not older, technically speaking. Their cells do not age. Now, health and trauma are different. This raises a shitload of questions like, would you want to be trapped under the WTC towers right now, immortal, buried near the bottom where they assumed no one was left living? Scenarios like that make the idea utterly intolerable to me. I'm all set.

[Minimalist]

I'm sitting here with a touch of bursitis in one arm, sore knees, graying hair and wondering what the fuck are you people asking for.