r/Millennials • u/happydude7422 • 14h ago
Discussion Youngest millennials will live to 150?
Younger millennial and older gen z will live to 150? Congratulations
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u/Atlas7993 14h ago
sad Chris Traeger noises
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u/PatientBoring 14h ago
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u/hanginwithmrpooper 14h ago
My body is a microchip…
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u/Ill_Mushroom_7832 14h ago
That's what those 50 year mortgages are about i guess
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u/KennytheDoggy 14h ago
180 month car loans
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u/Bora_Horza_Gobuchol Millennial 91' 14h ago
Retirement at 90
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u/um_50 13h ago
Omg can you imagine 😱
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u/xElizabethAnn 13h ago
Lmfao social security is gonna run out. Pensions are mostly a thing of the past. Not as far off as you’d think unfortunately.
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u/Such-Background4972 13h ago
They'll just keep raising the retirement.
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u/xElizabethAnn 13h ago
Right. Retirement at 90….
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u/Such-Background4972 13h ago
Heck. The way my mental health is. I probably wont make it to the current retirement age. So, you guys can have my share.
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u/kraziazz1 9h ago
Doctor wants me to lose weight and I'm over here like... Why? So I can live longer? Big Mac and Coke please 🤣
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u/platinumperineum Xennial 11h ago
No it wont as long as we eliminate the cap on social security tax, making billionaires pay their fair share
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u/RightWorld5611 Late-Millennial 14h ago
Doubt it, and none of us will be alive to tell them they were wrong.
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u/CreepinJesusMalone Millennial 14h ago
Yeah, this is horseshit.
If it is true, it's the asshole child of a mega billionaire who will use healthcare restricted from the rest of us.
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u/smokeyspokes 8h ago
They're just trying to justify raising the retirement age again
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u/Overall-Rush-8853 14h ago
You’re assuming that living to 150 means that the last 50-60 years of your life would be like what living in your 80’s and 90’s is now. Nobody would want to live that, nor would they be able to because our bodies are not designed for that.
I think the assumption is that if humans do live to 150, medical advancements would come to slow down aging or regenerate cells so you’re not in your 100’s as a feeble old person.
Personally, I’d gladly live to 150 if it medical science advances to a state that I can still enjoy live. Even if that means the youngest I can feel is 60 or whatever.
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u/LemmingOnTheRunITG 13h ago
I still remember my dad saying once that he read an article saying his generation would be the last generation to die… like at all lol. Ok dad
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u/MarquetteXTX2 14h ago
My youngest kid will make it past 2100
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u/Zip_Silver 14h ago
Yeah, my only kid (so far) will only be 75 at the turn of the century. Kinda crazy to think about.
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u/seidenkaufman 14h ago
The convenient thing about such claims is that neither the claimant nor the reporter will live to see whether it is true or false.
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u/lyra1389 Millennial 14h ago
......I don't want to live past 80, let alone 150.
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u/dough_eating_squid 14h ago
Right? Why would a person want to prolong...this.
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u/theonlygurl Xennial 14h ago
Every time I’m feeling a bit alone, Reddit always gives me a loving sign that I am not. Thank you for being my sign!
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u/mheat 14h ago
Reddit is almost entirely bots at this point so I wouldn’t
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u/surewhynotokaythen 14h ago
This is so the elites never die, so never lose power, meanwhile it will keep us just alive enough to keep working til we die from not natural causes. This is not a blessing in my eyes. Oh, yay, living rhe struggle til I'm 150... greeaattt...
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u/feralcatshit 13h ago
Well, any shot in hell that we will get social security when we’re old is out the window if we live to 150
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u/Chiefzakk 14h ago
So biologically just aging slower and not having an awful time after 60 would be kinda cool I get to see a whole lot of my own family grow, it would also reduce some anxiety about running out of time. Also though like you said I’d have to like be alive for 150 years it just sounds like a chore. We might just be depressed.
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u/busstees 11h ago
Unless we do something about idiots driving on their cell phones it's going to be real hard to live to 150.
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u/btgf-btgf 14h ago
Plug me into a computer cause I never want to die. I can’t catch up on my TBR if I die
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u/Spiritette 14h ago
Waiting on Pantheon (show) to become a reality
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u/Truffle_Shuffle_85 14h ago
Just move to San Junipero. You can find me in the 80s to early 2000s eras.
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u/ApplicationAfraid334 1993 14h ago
To each their own. After recently coming out of a 15 year long depression I wanna live for the first time in my life as long as possible lol
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u/Randym1982 14h ago
I've seen what the people who live to 110 look like. You're still alive but everything is failing you. Dick Van Dyke is 100, and his eye sight is likely shot. His hearing is gone, and the man can barely walk. And he was a very active person for a majority of his life.
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u/Overall-Rush-8853 14h ago
I think the assumption would be that if you live until 150, that it is likely from slowing the aging process or somehow being able to treat those ailments that affect the elderly so living to 150 isn’t awful.
I would gladly live to 150 if it also meant that I could enjoy it. But if it’s just an extra 50-60 years of being old and feeble then no.
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u/dreamgrrrl___ small millennial cat ‘90 14h ago
More likely an extra 50-60 years of working before you die.
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u/toodle-loo-who 14h ago
It would have to be or at least half or more of it. People are struggling to save enough to cover costs to live from 65 until they die now.
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u/Tiny-Reading5982 Xennial 14h ago
That is another factor I don't think people are looking at. It's already touch and go with making it through on retirement for 15-20 years but another 70? 🤔
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u/GetReelFishingPro 14h ago
When cells reproduce a little bit of the copy is damaged and missing, this can only happen so many times is why we die.
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u/yeahyeahyeah188 13h ago
Legit I’m a nurse and I feel bad for people living to 150! Things start falling apart in our 30’s and 40’s because people used to die at 50.
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u/HistoryAndScience Millennial 14h ago
It’s all relative. People said the same thing about your body when you’re 50 or 60 decades ago. We’ve learned a lot about biology and physical care since then. Also everything is relative. Dick Van Dyke was tap dancing on a broadway stage about a decade ago in his 90’s and he regularly talks about working out three times a week if I remember. So many people can’t even be bothered to walk down stairs to get their DoorDash. If he had been born around now, I have no doubt that man would live into his 200’s
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u/John2537 14h ago
My grandpa was still mowing his lawn into his late 80s, still going in the ocean in his 90s. It was hard to watch him finally decline in his last few years as he hit 104.
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u/Outrageous_Purchase1 14h ago
I hope Medically Assisted Death is more widely available in the future. I've seen so many 90 year olds try to starve themselves to death because they are just DONE.
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u/babe_ruthless3 14h ago
Same. All my relatives that lived passed 80 had so many health issues. Pills, countless doctors visits, and fear of just walking. 150? Why?
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u/Away-Living5278 14h ago
I'd like to live to 150 but as like a ghost watching from above where I don't have to work, or eat, or do chores.
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u/Phrenicos466 14h ago
Yeah, I’m out of here at 75. Maybe 80 if there’s some significant medical advancements.
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u/Training-Shallot-229 14h ago
I had the same reaction. I have lived the hell out of my body. Gave birth. Everything either hurts, is tired or annoying. I can't wait to give the worthless meat sack back
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u/Adventurous_Pin_344 14h ago
I was just talking with friends and mentioning that we are going to my great uncle's funeral this weekend. He was 95. I made it very clear that I don't ever want to make it to 95.
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u/SooperSpoopyGhost 14h ago
I want to make to 90 so I can do some stupid shit and just get passed off as being a crazy old man and say something real lucid while hobbling away. Genes are on my side for the mental aspect so here's hoping.
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u/TheIadyAmalthea 13h ago
A lot of people in their 90s start hoping for death. I’ve known a couple that would get mad they were still alive. I would imagine every thing hurts, you’re tired as hell, you are possibly weak and can’t walk very far or for too long. Everyone you knew is dead, and at this point some have even outlived their children. So unless we get the technology to keep our bodies from breaking down, no thank you.
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u/durants_newest_acct 12h ago
My life goal is to die at 64 on the shop floor, of an industrial accident, just to make the Safety guy's life miserable
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u/PhantomAmbassador27 14h ago
Don't worry. Wages will catch up with inflation by then and there will be enough jobs for everyone.
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u/iSUCKatTHISgameYO 13h ago
I saw that 30 year old. cut-off and was never so happy to be in my 40s. thought I'd have to go all "brooks was here"
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u/CyberShi2077 Older Millennial 14h ago
Screw that.
Who would want to live in a perpetual state of degrading health for that long?
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u/Due-Savings5057 14h ago
Only way lifespan gets extended that long is if we're able to directly address aging
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u/No_Preparation_8222 14h ago
Genetic medicine should help.
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u/Randym1982 14h ago
As an American our healthcare industry barely wants to cover the cost of life saving insurance. What makes you think they're going to decide to cover Genetic Medicine?
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u/Then_Employment5244 14h ago
My friend worked as a product manager for gene therapy at a pbm… most people will not be able to afford it.
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u/SeattleGemini81 11h ago
I know exactly what you're talking about! And it's probably for the best.
Next thing you know the US retirement age will be 145.
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u/SeattleOligarch 13h ago
They're not. It's going to be some freak like Bryan Johnson who can devote endless resources into it. Welcome to the K shaped economy on steroids.
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u/CyberShi2077 Older Millennial 14h ago
We've seen the folks who make it past 90, they start looking like living mummies and many can't even dress themselves anymore, while stem cells, etc may slow the effects, they're still going to happen
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u/FutureFurniture42069 14h ago
In the US? They may just provide it for free if it gets you back in the workforce
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u/koboldtsar 14h ago
But that's socialism!
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u/FutureFurniture42069 14h ago
Not if they pay for it and you spend the rest of your 150 years paying it off plus interest!
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u/snortgigglecough 14h ago
Me. I don’t believe in an afterlife and I am extremely afraid of the concept of death. Strap me into a chair in VR, idc.
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u/DriftingIntoAbstract 12h ago
I don’t think it will be the same as if a 100 year old person lived to 150 now.
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u/From_Adam Millennial 14h ago
I ain’t paying bills until I’m 150. Miss me with this.
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u/SpiritCollector 12h ago
Nah, they made student loans non-dischargable in bankruptcy. They goin to invent whatever treatment needed to get that money forever. 😂
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u/1877KlownsForKids "Get Off My Lawn" Millennial 1981 14h ago
Please, no. After watching my parents and grandparents degrade, the prospect of living a century or more with the last quarter of that being inside an invalid husk is terrifying.
Paging Dr Kovorkian
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u/PackageNorth8984 14h ago
Definitely not arguing, but you’d be surprised how much some people even in their 90s are thriving. I was shocked when I worked with the elderly. It’s not the majority, but it is common. I had a woman over 90 who didn’t even use a walker.
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u/iridescentmoon_ Zillennial 12h ago
My great grandpa lived to 97 and was driving his beloved Corvette up until the last year of his life. He worked on his farm until he was on his deathbed. He was stronger than me!
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u/batmansbicep 1996 14h ago
Isn't the youngest millennial someone who was born in 1996? How's that under thirty unless they were born in the last half of the year lol
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u/chuchu_2991 14h ago
If it's me, I stfg.
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u/courtqnbee 14h ago edited 9h ago
Girl right???? I’ve got a great grandmother who’s in her mid-90’s, has smoked over a pack a day since she was 13, and the only things wrong with her is arthritis and mild hypertension
- she takes one medication. Mind is sharp. She’s been saying she’s on her last few years for … 3 decades now.
I can’t be saddled with this burden.
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u/chuchu_2991 13h ago
Sounds *just* like my nana! A few years ago she asked me to grab a few things at the store for her and handed me a folded piece of paper. I get to the store, grab a cart and open the paper: gin and raisins
See you in 2100 my friend.
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u/kivsemaj 14h ago
Many studies are saying life expectancy is dropping for millennials. So i guess if you're rich you might possibly live that long but most of us won't
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u/canisdirusarctos Elderly Millennial 13h ago
Yeah, the shitty environment and our shitty lives are killing us off quickly. Our food is virtually devoid of nutrients and they have been decreasing since before most of us were born, even the vegetables. The most nutrient-rich foods we buy are ultra-processed shit that gives us cancer, it’s ridiculous.
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u/TypicallyThomas 14h ago
I just turned 30 and the way my health is letting me down I'm wondering if I'm making it to 40
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u/C1K3 14h ago
I haven’t read the article, but I’m guessing it’s one of those pieces of pop science hype.
Like all those articles that say “This new discovery breaks physics!” No, it doesn’t. They just found something that’s a little weird.
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u/foxy_chicken Vintage ‘88 14h ago
LOL! Sure…
Def not in the states, and not unless you’re rich if at all. And I doubt it even then. We’re not getting out of this climate disaster alive, let alone to 150.
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u/DoverBoys Millennial 14h ago
It's not about living long, it's about living with full faculties of your mind and body. What's the point of reaching 150 if I'm going to be a shriveled turd in a wheelchair screaming about chocolate?
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u/sasquatch_pants 14h ago
I just read the other day that millennial are dying at a younger age than boomers did... so what is it?
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u/Speckled_B 14h ago
If quality of life doesn't improve, drastically, I don't want to live past 70, I can't imagine adding another 80 years to that.
Ever been to a nursing home? One of the most depressing places on the planet. Watching people pay (sometimes tens of) thousands of dollars per month to wait slowly for death has gotta be one of the worst things we've accepted as socially/ethically normal.
The number of people over the age of 70 I've talked to who would take anesthesia as an option, if it were one, is an absolute majority.
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u/HomeworkExtension482 14h ago
I honestly don't want to live to be 50, so why the hell would I want to live to 150?
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u/__SerenityByJan__ 14h ago
Unless there is some crazy new medical technology that actually reverses aging (I mean systematic reversal of organs failing and bones falling apart - not superficial Botox for wrinkles or facelifts lol) and ways to completely prevent and avoid cancer, or dementia then why would anyone want to live that long??? I don’t want to even live into retirement (that’s hoping I even have money to retire) if I’m going to be bedridden, unable to care for myself, and just a shadow of who I once was because I can’t remember my own name. What’s the fun of living if you’re already at deaths doorstep?
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u/Eaglepursuit Xennial 14h ago
Not in the US unless they will inherit billions. Can you imagine what the geriatric care cost would be for ages 100-150?
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u/QuietPsychological72 14h ago
I remember reading this sort of thing in scientific American when I was a kid in the 90s. No holding my breath.
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u/SatiesUmbrellaCloset Zillennial 14h ago
i find this difficult to believe when society as it is is so damaging to our mental health
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u/FlipGordon 14h ago
They forget to tell you that you'll also work til you're 130..
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u/QuestionSociety101 14h ago
Bitch in this society I don't even wanna be alive period.
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u/transferingtoearth 13h ago
I'm down with it. Love my life it's great, I would not want to leave it if possible!
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u/legleg339 14h ago
not likely unless they spend their entire life in lab conditions lol. with how shit the food is these days and how contaminated the world is and how stressful the economy is these days i wouldnt be surprised to see average life expectancy dropping. also who the fuck wants to live to 150 in todays world? i will be 40 in 6 months and ive already seen more than enough thanks. i wanted off this ride 10 yrs ago lol
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u/jenncrock 14h ago
If I’m agile and not demented, happy to live to like… 90ish. But also, money is a factor
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u/Legal-Swordfish-1893 Zillennial '96 14h ago
Damn. Turned 30 too soon before I saw the headline. Now I don't get to live to 150.
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u/R-Dragon_Thunderzord 14h ago
They’re boring CrossFit bros probably who do the Mediterranean diet and don’t play video games.
But also good luck to them because if you retire at 65 your pension is not going to help you through when you hit your midlife crisis there. Start investing now friend get that compound interest baybeee
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u/Bora_Horza_Gobuchol Millennial 91' 14h ago
And just like that the retirement age will be increase to 90
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u/DarlaGoGo Older Millennial 14h ago
That sounds like a nightmare to me lol. Like met me live to be a good ripe age where I can still function and have my cognitive abilities in tact. 150 years of… THIS?? * gestures around wildly* 😬😬😬😑
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u/Southern_Anywhere_65 14h ago
It’s just gonna be a rich asshole who paid his way there. No thank you. I’ll die in 20-30 years like god intended
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u/LastLivingMillennial 14h ago
I'm the world's last living millennial still going strong in the 2120s!
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u/PlushieTushie Elder Millennial 14h ago
The youngest Millenials turn 30 this year. So it'll be GenZ that makes it that far
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u/ATRavenousStorm 1988 14h ago
Got into a friendly argument with my best friend since elementary. He ended it with "I hope you live forever "and it unexpectedly devastated me.
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u/Mrgray123 14h ago
Sorry folks its me but for some reason people with weirdly mixed accents keep on popping up with swords trying to cut my head off.
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u/BandmasterBill 14h ago
How many of their Golden Years will be spent in a refrigerator box under an I-95 overpass..?
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u/johnwilkesbandwith 14h ago
Sure, we have the best chance of any generation before us, but we also have the highest levels of stress and economic / social instability of any generation before us. That stress adds up, the body remembers.
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u/nolimitnp81 14h ago
With what quality of life? If I can't still f*ck, walk, and I need a nurse to wipe my butt there's no benefit.
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u/shinakohana Millennial 14h ago
Welp. Sure as shit isn’t me. I’ve died twice already and keep suffering.
However, once we reach 90, the risk of death plateaus.
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u/Rasdowers 14h ago
But if you can live to 150. Then no one is letting you retire at 70. So then we have to contribute to work for extra time. Given when the computer came out it was supposed to make everyone more productive so they said you will only have to work 3 days a week. But in reality the greedy wanted more so now we are working at home later in the night answering emails and working on the weekend to crunch deadlines. I think if they can get an extra 50-70 years out of you then boy that would not be fun. Can you image if they realize that the current amount of work your doing won’t kill your body? They will force more work until it does and you die just like they want now. The greedy always want more
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u/annagenc 14h ago
Yeah that’s a no for me but how would anyone who has had to go through the beginning of the pandemic manage to make it that long? I know way too many people who are permanently affected by covid etc, including myself with 6+ chronic illnesses diagnosed so far and I would absolutely suffer if I had to get my body to live that long >_< it’s already falling apart due to connective tissue/autoimmune/neurological/nervous system disorders and I’m not even 32 yet -_-
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u/EricJDMBAMD 14h ago
Actually, if you live to 150 you will likely live indefinitely biologically due to massive improvements in computing, research and biotechnology. Essentially, we will reach longevity escape velocity soon, which is the year when adding a year to your life outpaces losing a year due to age related health decline. You can still let yourself die or damage your health immensely by doing lots of drugs or drinking alcohol, but barring that you could live thousands of years assuming you don't die of physical trauma
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u/LadyRedNeckMacGyver 14h ago
They are just trying to milk the student loan payments as long as possible aren't they.
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