Re: Becoming Immortal? (was: The Promise of Cryonics (was Re: ethical problem?))

From: Gina Miller (echoz@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Apr 25 1999 - 20:58:54 MDT


One word: Nanotechnology

Gina "Nanogirl" Miller
http://www.nanoindustries.com

>Karsten Bänder <Karsten.Baender@ivm.de> writes:
>
>> Well, this is indeed a very desirable future, yet, I think that it
is
>> impossible to to become immortal in the classic way. The human
body cells -
>> at least some of them - aren't made for perpetual function. Life
can be
>> extended to an age of about 120 years, with the average lifespan
ranging
>> somewhere around the nineties, but then, eventually, some
important cells
>> will simply stop replicating. All you can do then is to hope that
they will
>> still be working, though at a slowly decaying rate.

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