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This study isn't the first to use modeling to examine human life span. Jan Vijg, a geneticist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, led a study detailed in 2016 in the journal Nature, that analyzed trends in life expectancy data to estimate that it would be unlikely for humans to exceed 125 years old. Other researchers have argued that there is no ultimate limit on human life span.

I think those researchers who say "there is no ultimate limit on human life spans", are kidding/fooling themselves.

I think all living beings will have a age limit, that # will vary based on your genes & what kind of genetic editing you can do to extend it.

But the search for immortality is a fools goal. The goal should be life extension through genetic engineering and improving the quality of life for what you have.

Even though the research suggests humans could live to 150, that number doesn't say anything about the quality of life in old age, Campisi said. In recent years, many scientists have come to refer to the number of healthy years in a person's life as their health span.

And Quality of life should be the highest priority.

Imagine Genetically Engineering your Humans to slow the body's aging rate after you hit puberty.
Internally & Externally, you'll age at a fraction of a regular normal human's body rate and maintain youth for far longer period of time.

Imagine after puberty, being able to look teenage young for 2/3/4/5/...x longer than a regular human.

and maintaining those physical properties on the inside & outside until you're near death.

Imagine never having to worry about getting "Gray Hairs" until you're about to die biologially. The growth of "gray hair" could be a warning sign to the new genetically engineered human that you're going to die soon and that the transition period between natural hair color and full "Gray Hair" is your warning signal. Then you would know what to do with your final days.

You can genetically engineer a ~49.7 day transition period for your "Gray Hairs" to grow in and another ~49.7 days for the final existence in "Gray Hair" mode.

Then you'd have a definite sign as to when you'll die.

Imagine the benefits of genetic engineering to slow your physical appearance by 1/2 past puberty on the outside and 1/3 on the inside. This would prevent you from aging past a modern day normal 70 something years old but internally be able to move like you're in your 50's, while you would be up to 136 y/o at the worst case scenario.

And Genetic Engineering would gurantee that nearly every engineered human would live to 136 y/o barring outside non-aging related or new disease related incidents that would kill you.

That would be generation 1 of Genetic Engineering.

The end goal could be to age at 1/10th of a normal human past puberty, never aging past a modern day 40 years old on the outside and have the mobility of a 30 something by aging internally at 1/11th while you would be able to age up to ~256 y/o.

Your Quality of life will sky rocket when you can maintain a youthful exterior and interior while living a longer life.

Imagine looking like a teenager for 10x longer, imagine looking like your 20's 10x longer, etc; all while living up to 256 y/o thanks to genetic engineering.

We need our scientists to work on figuring out how to extend our natural biological lives while maintaing a youthful quality of life all the way to near the end of it.

Instead of Human aging working like a Alkaline battery and have a largely linear drop off, we should age more like Lithium Batteries and then have the end come quickly and definitively for the last 14 weeks of natural life.

@DarkRoast any thoughts on Natural Aging Limits & Genetic engineering humanity to live longer and be more youthful?

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