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Life extension is the concept of extending the human lifespan, either modestly through improvements in medicine or dramatically by increasing the maximum lifespan beyond its generally-settled biological limit of around 125 years. [1]
Various unicellular and multicellular species, including some vertebrates, achieve this state either throughout their existence or after living long enough. A biologically immortal living being can still die from means other than senescence, such as through injury, poison, disease, predation, lack of available resources, or changes to environment.
After this point, the human body could be treated as an optional accessory and the program implementing the person could be transferred to any sufficiently powerful computer. Another possible mechanism for mind upload is to perform a detailed scan of an individual's original, organic brain and simulate the entire structure in a computer.
Life expectancy in the U.S. is currently 77.5 years for men and women, although plenty of people live much longer than that. Now, new research is breaking down the common traits of people who live ...
The researchers discovered that men who have adopted all eight habits by age 40 are predicted to live an average of 24 years longer than men who have none of those habits.
While noting that humans (along with elephants and whales) theoretically have the potential to live longer than most other mammals, de Magalhães said that every mammal is still living under ...
The species limit of human life is estimated by scientists at 125–127 years, [5] [6] and even in the most ideal conditions a person will not live longer due to aging of the body. Some scientists believe that, even if medicine learns how to treat all major diseases, that will increase the average lifespan of people in developed countries by ...
For example, some individuals of the Galapagos tortoise live more than 175 years, [7] and some individuals of the bowhead whale more than 200 years. [8] Some scientists cautiously suggest that the human body can have sufficient resources to live up to 150 years. [9] [10]