How to live to be 100+

Jon Mixon, Remembers that the future isn'... (more)

62 upvotes by Tom Byron, James McLean, Britt Smith, (more)

No.

Some reasons:

1. Events which are currently statistically improbable (airplane crashes, lightning strikes, shark attacks,etc) would become probable. And, if my extended life allowed for  measure of invulnerability, I'd have hundreds of years to remember it.
2. Not only would everyone in my family die, it's likely that all of my direct genetic descendants would as well (assuming that I was unable to have children). This would mean that I would be only "me" out there. Not a happy thought.
3. The constant attention I received would be very unpleasant. Even if I roamed the Earth, it would become apparent to the media that I had lived longer than anyone in recorded history. Assuming that I was allowed to remain and not subjected to medical experimentation (see #5), I would still have to change my appearance simply to be left alone.
4. Assuming that I was the only person who was so "blessed", intelligence agencies,rogue governments, multinational corporations and criminal groups would attempt to kidnap me to see why it is that I'm still alive. It is certain that their efforts to do so would be painful. There's always the unpleasant thought that if they were unable to discover why I was nearly immortal that they might attempt to discover what it is that will kill me.
5. I would be unable to "relate" to anyone who I met. My formative years would be their distant past and their "new" thoughts and ideas would be things which I had seen or heard of multiple times before. They would feel uncomfortable around me and I would feel the same around them.
6. I have always liked animals,especially dogs. The thought of witnessing hundreds of them living and dying during my lifespan would be very saddening.
7. A time could come when I could no longer remember my own family, beyond the notes and videos which I have made to help me remember. It might be hell to think that what I have written to try remember them wasn't true and that I could no longer remember how they really were in life. Worse, it could be possible that I would live so long that I might forget their names.
8. Again, assuming a measure of invulnerability to disease and injury to my extended lifespan, the possibility of my becoming trapped somewhere becomes likely. Let's say I was part of an expedition to Mars and global war breaks out on Earth returning mankind to a pre-Industrial state. If there was an accident on Mars, I could be stranded there literally for the remainder of my life. Or in another solar system. Or another galaxy. Or....
9. You could be ill for decades. Or centuries. It may not kill you, but it could disable you for lengthy periods of time. The same could be said for the hundreds of broken bones, the tens of thousands of muscle strains, ligament pulls,etc.
10. Time would lose meaning. I could sleep for days or weeks or months and I would barely notice it. Things would seem to speed by which would actually take hours or days to occur. As I stated in another answer, people would "disappear" and it wouldn't immediately register to me that they had died. Or that they had been dead for many years. Food and drink would often grow cold/warm when I sat down to eat and became lost in thought as hours could pass. I might go days or weeks without bathing simply because I would be unable to discern how long it had been since I last had done this.
    

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7 upvotes by Tom Byron, Quora User, Jaap Weel, (more)

Yes! Absolutely! As long my health condition was such that I wasn't too physically or mentally disabled etc. (at which point it would become time to find the most interesting way to kill myself anyway)
Yes people I know would die, but I would get to know so many new people as well! And my dying wouldn't save those people, they would have died whether or not I was there to witness it. There's no law of a human life saying you can only form so many friendships, or that you're done after a certain age.
Sure there would be things that would be hard for you that most people don't have to deal with. But you'd have so many opportunities as well. Think of all the things you could learn! Of everything you'd get to experience! You could speak so many languages, learn so many cultures, become a Jack of all trades!
And you're not giving anything up! You still get to have a normal life (if you want it) in the first 100 years, and you have the next 900 to continue to improve yourself, and expand your experience. I don't see where you lose.

Tom Byron, I have participated in a memor... (more)

4 upvotes by Diego Noriega Mendoza, Sheri Fresonke Harper, Jesse Lashley,(more)

Think of what life was like in 1013. Or what you think life was like in those 1000 years. Think of meeting a few of those who did the things we read about. Think of the things that happened that no one thought was important, and never wrote it down. Imagine. Or things that were oral histories and written down 200 years later...mmm. History might not be what we thought it was.

Now, turn that around and I would get to see the year 2946. What might happen in those 1000 years? Based on what I've seen in nearly a tenth of that so far, it is incomprehensible to imagine:

•  Seeing a world with no cancer.
•  Living without famine.
•   Owning one of those perpetual
   machines that supplied me with all
   the power I needed.
•   Seeing people self-govern though a
   holographic virtual world in a
   "globalized-community".
•   Having a summer home on Mars.

The list of friends and places and books to read. The changes, the scientific improvements, the potential of humanity unleashed.

Assuming we are still here of course. Someone then might find a digital archive of this answer and have a great chuckle...