How long do you think you'll live for?

[Fresh Baked]

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/13/137029208/heart-with-no-beat-offers-hope-of-new-lease-on-life

With new medical breakthroughs coming out every year, how long do you think your lease on life is good for?

And are you as terrified as I am that you're going to get hit by a car or get a brain aneurysm before medical science cures puny little problems like breakable bones or clots?

 

[Linsejko]

Haha, I just found this news article a couple hours ago and posted it on my facebook profile... Nice.

I'm too good to get hit by a car.

I think science will get me to live quite a bit longer, but I wonder if it's just the generation or two after me that will get to immortality... If we can sustain our ridiculously teetering economic system enough to keep up such R&D, that is. We could be near the peak any day now...

 

[Jah]

http://sens.org/

Probably for a long time.

Past 100, hopefully more.

 

[Ex-User (4771)]

I really hope i dont live long enough to be forced to depend on others to live, whenever that may come

 

[Reverse Transcriptase]

http://www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_aging.html

My grandfather is 95. My other 3 grandparents are dead from smoking cigarettes. (They lived until mid-60s, 75 and 88.)

As long as we're making up numbers, I'll say 850.

 

[Reverse Transcriptase]

http://www.ted.com/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_aging.html

My grandfather is 95. My other 3 grandparents are dead from smoking cigarettes. (They lived until mid-60s, 75 and 88.)

As long as we're making up numbers, I'll say 850. Year 2837, here I come!

 

[IfloatTHRUlife]

When i was younger, sometimes i would think about the future of the group of friends i spent most of my time with. I always had this nagging thought that i would be the first of us to go. Never had any specific reason, i knew i obviously couldn't predict the future, it was just the way i felt.

Then in late november of 2009, one of my closest friends from the original group had been killed. Hit by a car that was speeding while he was walking down the side of the road. Ever since then i have had no interest in making guesses about how long i will live. (The person who killed him was an off duty officer... interesting display of responsibility)

On a side note, damn you Athideus, your tree is cooler than mine

 

[Cavallier]

I figured that all horrible accidents aside I'd live for a long time. The women in my family generally make it to about 95-100, notably one grandmother lived for 102 years, before dying. What's amazing is that they make it to that age with their minds still intact.

I'm healthy. I don't smoke. I don't have any history of heart disease. One grandmother died of a fast growing brain tumor but other than that there isn't a history of (known*) cancer in my family. My odds are pretty good.

*You can never be sure with cancer. If you live long enough you'll probably get it.

 

[Lostwitheal]

I estimate roughly twice as long as half the time it takes before I die

 

[Cerul]

I'm guessing I'll live to about 30-35 given how things are going.

 

[digital angel]

That's an interesting article. Based upon an article I saw on the Washington Post website, I may live to be about eighty.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/nation/life-expectancy-map/?hpid=z3

 

[Dormouse]

I always figured I would die pretty young. According to past guesses I should only have a couple of years left.

 

[intpz]

I don't think I'll live long. Even if there would be medical cures for everything - I couldn't pay for it. Besides - a lot of studies says that stress causes diseases...

 

[Jordan~]

Either forever or till about 35.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

My grandmother was 94 when she died, my grandfather died when he was 88, I believe. My other grandpa and grandma have been chain-smokers for decades, and are both ex-alcoholics. They're both around 75 now, I think my grandpa might be at risk for dementia, as he seems to be getting a little confused, but I'm not sure, it could just be all the alcohol and tobacco finally showing up. The brother of my grandpa died because of alzheimers, it's a really sad story.

So yeah, as long as I don't get alzheimers(I really hope I don't, but there's a big chance for everyone) or cancer(which is also scaringly common), I could probably make it to 90, given that I also don't smoke or get hit by a car and stuff...

I'm not comfortable with the idea of dying at all really, as I'm just a teenager.