The 500 year old question

Slap said:
If you could live for 500 years(in good health without aging/as you are currently) would you want to?
This once in a lifetime deal would only apply to you and not the rest of the humans on earth.

I put the same question to my 22 colleagues at work and 50% said No and the other 50% said Yes for a variety of different reasons.



Any takers? Thoughts?
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Ask anyone in good health/good cheer if they are happy to die tomorrow. The answer will never be "yes".

Ask people if they want to live 500 years and you get flippant answers because people are afraid of the future in a general sense. But say, "OK, you can set the day of your death to any time in the next 500 years, when would you like to die?" and see if you get another answer entirely. How many people would say, sure, I'll die in 3 years time. Sounds good to me."

Ask anyone on their death bed if they'd like to be restored to health and have another year of life... see what the answer is. There is never a good time to die.
 
I think that seeing the glass half-full, or half-empty on one's life will also have an impact on your decision to want to live longer.

500 years sounds a long time to ponder on things....but imagine the world/us in a couple of hundred thousand years....
To think that the Wright brother's first flight was only 120 feet in distance only 120 years ago .... I think it would be fascinating to see humankind kinds progression in 500 years
 
Nasher said:
You wouldn't be able to own anything in your own name, or a bank account etc. Someone would notice once it reaches an impossible age. Or stay in one place more than 10-15 years.

All your savings would have to be cash and somehow keep the notes up to date.

Any partners would notice as well if you stuck around too long.

I look young for my age and even then people question it. If I looked the same in 20 years they would freak out.
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Moving assets between different names/changing identities wouldn’t be a massive hassle. Re maintaining cash value, have you heard of crypto…? There’s always going to be ways to store money, for example companies exist in perpetuity until wound up or struck off, so a bank account in a company’s name for longer than an average person’s lifespan with the authorised signatory changing every so often would be unlikely to raise eyebrows.
 
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