Live To Be 150: Would You Want To?

ABC News:

Will there also come a time when 60 becomes the new sexy?

And if we live to be well over 100, are we really going to have just one partner for all that time? Dubner says you shouldn't expect to marry in your 20s "until death do us part."

"Do we kind of ritualize a kind of serial marriage culture in this country, where you have your marriage in your 20s and 30s, where you have the children, then your marriage in your 40s and 50s where you have a partner with whom you do midlife stuff, and then your marriage later on?" says Dubner.

"I think there's going to be a lot of changes in what economists would call the marriage market or the love market."

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Comments

[curiousasheck]

No thanks! You can have it.

Going anytime is fine with me. I won't miss this hell hole of delusion. And I don't want to repeat it either.

:-)

[MikeDu]

Does this imply extended life will only be available via large and regular payments to Big Pharma for the rest of our unnaturally long lives? Let's face facts, this'll only be available to the filthy rich! The wealthy live forever, the rest of us die in our hovels. Remember how everyone prayed for a cure for cancer? Well, first cancer cure to come on the market costs something like SIXTY THOUSAND dollars for a treatment! That's the ENTIRE life savings of an average American family. With Big Pharma especially, you don't get nothin' for nothin' in this world.

[1will]

Yeah, I really want more years in a diaper, drooling all over the place and not knowing where the hell I am.
I worked in a retirement home for 2 years while going to school. 70-80 is old enough.

[rini]

If they extend the human lifespan it will likely be due to decreased aging. This will lead to more good years, without health problems or dementia, not more bad years.

Of course, I don't know if it will ever happen.

[tombollocks]

I'm already bored in my 40's! Unfortunately, I'll probably be in my 90's before a keel over, like the rest of my family. Sigh....here's hoping it will be my 70's.

[mydogshakespeare]

First question: Can you AFFORD to live to 150? Would you have to work until you're 120?