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Ignoring any claims that the man is a crackpot and any other problems one might have with the science. Does anyone really want to live to 1000? I think you might get a little bored :-/

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I've always preferred the idea of immortality on the installment plan -- get frozen/stored/whatever, then woken up every couple hundred or couple thousand years, do stuff, go back into freeze/storage/whatever.

Which, at least for me, is less about avoiding death (which doesn't actually scare me all that much) and more about just getting to see what sort of cool stuff the future holds.

You will live in a perpetual state of cultural shock. You can't possibly be useful to the society in that situation.

Meh. If the technology existed to do that, society would have to find ways to cope with it anyway.

"Does anyone really want to live to 1000? I think you might get a little bored"

Boredom is infinitely better than nothingness.

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