Gearspins.

[nder]

Hypothetical.
A solution is found for telomere replication errors, effectively doubling your lifespan. you'll now live to about 160, all aging effects halved, as we know them now.

How would you change your approach to how you live your life, what would you start doing/ doing differently once the treatment was given and took hold.

Comments

[9thmoon]

I'd work a lot harder, to make a lot more money, to be able to enjoy a much longer retirement. I'd also get busy popping out babies, if I knew I was going to be around to raise them.

[nder]

why the focus on babies, if you've alot longer to be able to have and raise them? if you had say 15 more viable years now, you'd have 30 after the treatment. You could wait another decade and still be able to raise a twenty year old before you'd go nonviable.

[9thmoon]

I don't have fifteen viable years! I don't even have five. In fact, I'm already well past prime baby-making age.

[nder]

man I wish all my organs came with specific expiration dates like yours :P

[9thmoon]

This biological disparity seems to me to be the number one profound difference between male and female. And I've yet to meet a male with any respect for or understanding of the ways in which that difference influences how we live our lives.

[nder]

oh I understand it, I'm just saying you don't have a specific end date. I get the drive to have kids before 30/40 for women, but it's still viable past that in alot of cases.
Hell, I'm getting snipped so I don't have to worry about (let alone because I've lost the desire to) being a dad, potentially with a teen when I'm in my late 50s, when there's a good chance I'm going to lose half my lower leg.

[9thmoon]

still viable past that in alot of cases

Which doesn't do a damn thing for you if you aren't one of those cases.

Just sayin'.

[nder]

fair 'nough.
so, let's say you spend the next 10 years and have 3 kids.
back into the hypothetical, what then aside from raising them obviousnesses.

[9thmoon]

$$$
$$$
$$$
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Plus some edumacations.

[nder]

straight working more, or more investing now, and letting compound interest rule for the later days?

[9thmoon]

Make more money, and put it into appreciating assets, namely real estate. ("Buy land... they aren't making it any more.")