Ashburnham - When Cushing Academy director James Tracy, he asked the students if they wanted to yesterday, live for 100 years if they still fit and still be usable by all her friends, 20 percent of the students in the gym surrounded Heslin will not raise your hands.
Andrew RL Trexler, 17, a senior from Hollis, NH, was among the students.
"We make connections in our lives, so that each connection will be meaningless if we would have lived too long," he said. "I have so many people and only a dozen are important to me. When I was living would be much too long to be buried its importance in other connections and would be lost.
The poll was taken during a discussion about the aging population. It was the second of the series Oxford Cushing discussion.
George Leeson, Deputy Director of the Oxford Institute on Aging, and Aubrey De Gray, Chief Scientific Advisor at Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence or Sens in England, this video conference discussed the demographic change, aging societies and the problems these changes create. They also discussed how medical advances in their lives will eventually allow people to 150 and beyond, and what it means to live.
"While fertility has declined, increasing life expectancy," said Leeson, "with seniors living longer and healthier old age."
People do not understand that life would mean to 100 or 150, "said Gray. When people think about aging defeat, they believed to be alive when all their friends are dead and a life of decadence.
"The current scenario is to keep people healthy and to prevent them from ill," he said.
Mr. Leeson asked students and staff, what a world where more people older than 50 than younger people want. Young people today see the world in the middle of the century, he said, in most regions of the world.
For students who set up questions necessary changes in the policies of the government, questioning the religious beliefs and changes in the distribution of roles within the family.
On the lighter side, senior Alec P. Weiss, 19, of Dover, asked if the science were for the animals, and if so, whether the dog could live forever.
"The engineers are we talking about in terms of people should be for your dog," said Leeson.
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