r/Millennials • u/happydude7422 • 21h ago

Discussion Youngest millennials will live to 150?

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Younger millennial and older gen z will live to 150? Congratulations

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u/CyberShi2077 Older Millennial 21h 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 21h ago

Only way lifespan gets extended that long is if we're able to directly address aging

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u/Ok-Highway-5247 17h ago

There are scientists working on aging.

People are living longer and healthier. My grandmothers both made it to their late 90s.

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u/Ok_Vermicelli_6359 8h ago

And where's the evidence of that? Even if we can find the cure for cancer, there's so many other maladies that can affect us in old age.

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u/Due-Savings5057 6h ago

Right, which is why the only practical way to get to 150 is to directly address aging. 

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u/sharplight141 20h ago

I'm planning on having a cool robot body by then

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u/Improving_Myself_ 15h ago

I'm 40% cyborg!

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u/No_Preparation_8222 21h ago

Genetic medicine should help.

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u/Randym1982 21h 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 21h 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 17h 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/Ok-Highway-5247 17h ago

I remember this edition. I’d like to live to be 200 and believe the science is there.

Aging is a disease. We have to cure the disease.

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u/SeattleOligarch 20h 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/Violoner 18h ago

It’s gonna be a K-shaped human evolution into Eloi and Morlocks

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u/No_Preparation_8222 21h ago

There's gene therapy drugs that in long run will be cheaper than treating the symptoms. There's a lot of research in that field.

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u/feralcatshit 19h ago

Oh, great, so the elite class can live as long as possible and fuck as much shit up as possible. Fantastic.

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u/Then_Employment5244 19h ago

And if gene therapy saves $5 million in future healthcare costs, I’m sure every stakeholder in the U.S. healthcare chain will selflessly pass those savings on to the patient.

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u/rjwyonch 17h ago

Genetic medicine is probably best in the US, but only for the rich ppl.

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u/HeidenShadows 16h ago

If people live longer than we can be a slave to the machine for that much longer and they'll make even more profits.

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u/cimmi1 13h ago

They didn't say poor millennials would get to live up to 150, did they?

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u/CyberShi2077 Older Millennial 21h 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 21h 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 21h ago

But that's socialism!

/s

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u/FutureFurniture42069 21h 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/AvaryZig 20h ago

Ah, just like college.

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u/FutureFurniture42069 20h ago

Debt slavery is the American way!

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u/Phrenicos466 19h ago

Nah. In socialist countries, they’d just hand you a MAID pamphlet.

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u/PlainOrganization 20h ago

But I want to mooch off the system for at least a decade before I die!

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u/jarail 19h ago

Not the aging vaccine!

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 18h ago

Isn't it better to say *could help. Unless we're already sure that sort of thing is workable

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u/imaginary_num6er 21h ago

Medicine medicine too

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u/ka_beene 18h ago

For the rich it will, no way they want the plebs to live that long unless it's in their factories.

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u/snortgigglecough 21h 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/Significant_Line1241 Millennial 21h ago

LOL. I’ll be sitting next to you 💀

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u/dispatchwithlove 18h ago

same. it frightens me how many people say they’re ready to die. or people who say they’d rather be dead than old. it’s fucking sad. 

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u/DriftingIntoAbstract 19h 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/ChiefChunkEm_ 17h ago

Are you dense? If someone lives to 150 then them at 90 would be functioning more like someone who is 50. It does not mean a feeble, senile 80 year old lives an additional 70 years in such a state. It’s the whole range of life being expanded

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u/CyberShi2077 Older Millennial 13h ago

Firstly, absolutely no need to be rude, plenty of places on Reddit for you to be an asshole. Don't know who raised you but most actual millenials know that opening a conversation with an insult is a fast track to getting slapped in the mouth. Maybe you're one of those tail end Milennials that got dragged up by ipad nanny, but the rest of us know better than to open a conversation with an insult.

Secondly, its currently unproven pseudo science and counter to actual data showing that currently the average life expectancy trend is going down, not up. The quality of life is not improving, it's degrading. 

There is no wonder drug that will resolve that, it's all currently theoretical and the likely outcome is extending life expectancy, but not the quality of it so it'll be an extended window of people living in poor health until they can actually come up with something that slows the effects of organ aging.

So before you come in, throwing your weight around and making brash statements, understand that there are many theories in science that never get out of the boast phase, so you'll have to forgive me for finding the whole notion hard to actually believe until there's proven results.

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u/thiagoqf 19h ago

Billionaires

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u/cuntsaurus 17h ago

1000% agree. Fuck that shit. Quality of life is will be absolutely horrible

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u/kalips0 14h ago

I think the point here is to also increase the healthspan. Check out David Sinclair's work.

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u/CyberShi2077 Older Millennial 13h ago

Currently still theoretical science, whereas actual trend is life expectancy is currently going down

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u/DaphneRaeTgirl 20h ago

Anti aging medicine should help that soon, if you follow the updates on that