Eternal Youth

According to the bible, the first man, Adam, lived up to 930 years old. Many other people during that era—Noah, for example—lived up to almost 1,000 years old. It is hard to imagine what would happen if we can all live that long.

The current world population is estimated to be around 6.684 billion, and expected to reach near 9 billion by 2042. If we keep up the present birth rate, but reducing the mortality rate substantially, then it can only mean the our world will very quickly become overcrowded.

Apparently, some scientists believe that science might one day halt or even reverse the ageing process. It seems that they have a scientific basis for their belief, but even if it is possible to achieve it, I think it will take many more generations before it can actually happen. However, I'm wondering what exactly did they mean by "halting or even reversing ageing". As far as I am concerned, Sir Cliff Richard most certainly does not "manage to defy the effects of old age".

But can you imagine living up to 1,000 years old? There will be so much time to do anything you want to do. You are free to be a procrastinator; you can learn to be, say, a doctor, practise for a hundred years or so, and then when you're fed-up with that profession, go back to school again to learn a totally new profession. You can borrow a hell lot of money from the bank to buy the most expensive things you like, and then take a few hundred years to repay the loan. There will be no retirement age since you will remain young forever, although perhaps not like Cliff Richard.

And then you wake up one day and realise that you've done everything that you wanted to do; you've been to everywhere you wanted to go to; you've learned everthing you wanted to learn; in fact you've achieved practically everything humanly possible to achieve. You are done with living, but you have some 500 years of life remaining. At that point, your daily routine will be about figuring out what else to do with your life. It can be annoying, that!