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desirability of aging.

Greg Buell gbuell at teal.csn.org
Sat May 28 12:43:12 EST 1994


In article <mbxfd-270594152310 at macfd.biochem.nottingham.ac.uk>,
Fergus Doherty <mbxfd at unicorn.nott.ac.uk> wrote:
>In article <15498.9405270859 at mailer.leeds.ac.uk>, malcolm at GEOG.LEEDS.AC.UK
>(Malcolm McMahon) wrote:
>> 
>
>> At the moment much of the structure of our lives revolves arround the
>> inevitability of ageing. What new structures would evolve if it where
>> removed noone can say. I, for one, am looking foreward to the next
>> century and hope to see the whole of it.
>> 
>Would it really be desirable to live for 3-400 years?  This would lead to
>an increased population, perhaps even more so if it led to more children
>spread over a longer period (child bearing period for women would be
>greater if ageing slowed?).  What effect of such older people would there
>be on innovation and social change, might not such a society be dangerously
>static?  
>
>Fergus Doherty,
>dept. Biochemistry,
>University Medical School,
>Queen's Medical Centre,
>Nottingham NG7 2UH
>Tel: 602 709366  FAX 602 422225 Internet: mbxfd at unicorn.nott.ac.uk


      INVENTION PROJECT...

                THAT AGES YOU DIFFERENTLY --- so you still die at 80
                                              but you have the body of
                                              a 29 year old.

                THIS INVENTION WOULD BE A GODSEND FOR WOMEN....

                CONSIDERING ALL THE 60 YEAR OLD MD'S WHO MARRY

                19 YEAR OLD WOMEN.... GRIN


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