Second question in the interview: "There are a lot of people out there who actually don’t want to live longer, even if given the chance. How could someone possibly be against living longer?"
I honestly can't wrap my head around this. The conversations I've tried to have with people who don't want to live longer never go anywhere, because they can't help but associate "old" (as in "high number of years") with sickness and reduced faculties, and I can't get through to them that I mean "really really old and really really healthy". Maybe it's as the article says, some people refuse to believe because they don't want to create what they see as false hope.
I myself hope to live as long as I can, ideally forever. There are so many things to do, there are so many things to learn, the universe is just too awesome for just one [current standard human] lifetime!
I honestly can't wrap my head around this. The conversations I've tried to have with people who don't want to live longer never go anywhere, because they can't help but associate "old" (as in "high number of years") with sickness and reduced faculties, and I can't get through to them that I mean "really really old and really really healthy". Maybe it's as the article says, some people refuse to believe because they don't want to create what they see as false hope.
I myself hope to live as long as I can, ideally forever. There are so many things to do, there are so many things to learn, the universe is just too awesome for just one [current standard human] lifetime!