SOME of the best things maybe, but ALL of them! I don't think so!
Haha yea ok MOST of the best things!
density of Manhattan. And I suppose it would at least be existence, but it sounds horrific.
That's an extreme increase in population, and it doesn't sound horrific for all those people who choose to live in Manhatten. Look at the endless wastelands that exist in every big country. It'd be nice to have some neighbors around. That's just considering land area of course.
The problem you are contemplating is not just 'life' or 'existence' it is the extension of life. This is a fairly pointless achievement is we save an eighty-five year old with antibiotics only to have then linger in a state of increasing dementia for the next 30 years. We need to be
Exactly. If you can work then you've probably got a reasonable quality of life (apart from having to work!), and you're not consuming extra money.
We're not going to get far with lifestyle changes tho. Sure it might deal with smoking diseases, etc. but most people, even most smokers don't suffer from those. A lot of it's just genetic. Maybe that's what the original idea was about, getting rid of those 'aging' genes.
